Nebraska Statutes 67-255. General partner; status; termination; when
Except as approved by the written consent of all partners at the time, a person ceases to be a general partner of a limited partnership upon the happening of any of the following events:
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 67-255
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
(1) The general partner withdraws from the limited partnership as provided in section 67-264 ;
(2) The general partner ceases to be a general partner of the limited partnership as provided in section 67-272 ;
(3) The general partner is removed as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement;
(4) Unless otherwise provided in the partnership agreement, the general partner: (i) Makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; (ii) files a voluntary petition in bankruptcy; (iii) is adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent or has an order for relief in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding entered against the general partner; (iv) files a petition or answer seeking for the general partner any reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution, or similar relief under any statute, law, rule, or regulation; (v) files an answer or other pleading admitting or failing to contest the material allegations of a petition filed against the general partner in any proceeding of this nature; or (vi) seeks, consents to, or acquiesces in the appointment of a trustee, receiver, or liquidator of the general partner or of all or any substantial part of the general partner’s properties;
(5) Unless otherwise provided in the partnership agreement, one hundred twenty days after the commencement of any proceeding against the general partner seeking reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution, or similar relief under any statute, law, rule, or regulation, the proceeding has not been dismissed, or if within ninety days after the appointment without the general partner’s consent or acquiescence of a trustee, receiver, or liquidator of the general partner or of all or any substantial part of the general partner’s properties, the appointment is not vacated or stayed or, within ninety days after the expiration of any such stay, the appointment is not vacated;
(6) In the case of a general partner who is a natural person:
(i) His or her death; or
(ii) The entry of an order by a court of competent jurisdiction adjudicating him or her incompetent to manage his or her person or his or her estate;
(7) In the case of a general partner who is acting as a general partner by virtue of being a trustee of a trust, the termination of the trust, but not merely the substitution of a new trustee;
(8) In the case of a general partner that is a separate partnership, the dissolution and commencement of winding up of the separate partnership;
(9) In the case of a general partner that is a corporation, the filing of a certificate of dissolution, or its equivalent, for the corporation or the revocation of its charter and the expiration of ninety days after the date of notice to the corporation of revocation without a reinstatement of its charter;
(10) In the case of a general partner that is a limited liability company, the filing of the articles of dissolution, or its equivalent, for the limited liability company or the forfeiture of its certificate and the expiration of one year after notice of forfeiture without revival and reinstatement; or
(11) In the case of a general partner that is an estate, the distribution by the fiduciary of the estate’s entire interest in the partnership.