Nevada Revised Statutes 87A.150 – Knowledge and notice
1. A person knows a fact if the person has actual knowledge of it.
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 87A.150
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- 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: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
2. A person has notice of a fact if the person:
(a) Knows of it;
(b) Has received a notification of it;
(c) Has reason to know it exists from all of the facts known to the person at the time in question; or
(d) Has notice of it under subsection 3 or 4.
3. A certificate of limited partnership on file in the Office of the Secretary of State is notice that the partnership is a limited partnership and the persons designated in the certificate as general partners are general partners. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the certificate is not notice of any other fact.
4. A person has notice of:
(a) Another person’s withdrawal as a general partner, 90 days after the effective date of an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership which states that the other person has withdrawn or 90 days after the effective date of a certificate of withdrawal pertaining to the other person, whichever occurs first;
(b) A limited partnership’s dissolution, 90 days after the effective date of an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership stating that the limited partnership is dissolved;
(c) A limited partnership’s termination, 90 days after the effective date of a certificate of cancellation;
(d) A limited partnership’s conversion, 90 days after the effective date of the articles of conversion; or
(e) A merger, 90 days after the effective date of the articles of merger.
5. A person notifies or gives a notification to another person by taking steps reasonably required to inform the other person in ordinary course, whether or not the other person learns of it.
6. A person receives a notification when the notification:
(a) Comes to the person’s attention; or
(b) Is delivered at the person’s place of business or at any other place held out by the person as a place for receiving communications.
7. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 8, a person other than a natural person knows, has notice, or receives a notification of a fact for purposes of a particular transaction when the natural person conducting the transaction for the person knows, has notice, or receives a notification of the fact, or in any event when the fact would have been brought to the natural person’s attention if the person had exercised reasonable diligence. A person other than a natural person exercises reasonable diligence if it maintains reasonable routines for communicating significant information to the natural person conducting the transaction for the person and there is reasonable compliance with the routines. Reasonable diligence does not require a natural person acting for the person to communicate information unless the communication is part of the natural person’s regular duties or the natural person has reason to know of the transaction and that the transaction would be materially affected by the information.
8. A general partner’s knowledge, notice, or receipt of a notification of a fact relating to the limited partnership is effective immediately as knowledge of, notice to, or receipt of a notification by the limited partnership, except in the case of a fraud on the limited partnership committed by or with the consent of the general partner. A limited partner’s knowledge, notice, or receipt of a notification of a fact relating to the limited partnership is not effective as knowledge of, notice to, or receipt of a notification by the limited partnership.