179.0102(14)
(14) “Partnership agreement" means the agreement, whether or not referred to as a partnership agreement and whether oral, implied, in a record, or in any combination thereof, of all the partners of a limited partnership concerning the matters described in s.
179.0105 (1). The term includes the agreement as amended or restated.
179.0102(15)
(15) “Person" means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit or nonstock corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, general cooperative association, limited cooperative association, unincorporated association, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
179.0102(16)
(16) “Principal office" means the principal executive office of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, whether or not the office is located in this state.
179.0102(17)
(17) “Property" means all property, whether real, personal, or mixed or tangible or intangible, or any right or interest therein.
179.0102(18)
(18) “Record," used as a noun, means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
179.0102(19)
(19) “Registered agent" means an agent of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership that is authorized to receive service of any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the partnership.
179.0102(20)
(20) “Registered foreign limited partnership" means a foreign limited partnership that is registered to do business in this state pursuant to a statement of registration filed by the department.
179.0102(21)
(21) “Required information" means the information that a limited partnership is required to maintain under s.
179.0108.
179.0102(22)
(22) “Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, any of the following:
179.0102(22)(b)
(b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process.
179.0102(23)
(23) “State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
179.0102(24)(e)
(e) An encumbrance, including a mortgage or security interest.
179.0102(25)
(25) “Transferable interest" means the right, as initially owned by a person in the person's capacity as a partner, to receive distributions from a limited partnership, whether or not the person remains a partner or continues to own any part of the right. The term applies to any fraction of the interest, by whomever owned.
179.0102(26)
(26) “Transferee" means a person to which all or part of a transferable interest has been transferred, whether or not the transferor is a partner. The term includes a person that owns a transferable interest under s.
179.0602 (1) (c) or
179.0605 (1) (d).
179.0102 History
History: 2021 a. 258.
179.0103(1)(1)
A person knows a fact if any of the following applies:
179.0103(1)(b)
(b) The person is deemed to know the fact under law other than this chapter.
179.0103(2)
(2) A person has notice of a fact if any of the following applies:
179.0103(2)(a)
(a) The person has reason to know the fact from all the facts known to the person at the time in question.
179.0103(3)
(3) A certificate of limited partnership on file in the office of the department 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 sub.
(4), the certificate is not notice of any other fact.
179.0103(4)(a)(a) A person not a partner is deemed to have notice of another person's dissociation as a general partner 90 days after an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership that states that the other person has dissociated becomes effective or 90 days after a statement of dissociation pertaining to the other person becomes effective, whichever occurs first.
179.0103(4)(b)
(b) A person not a partner is deemed to have notice of all of the following as follows:
179.0103(4)(b)1.
1. A limited partnership's dissolution 90 days after an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership stating that the limited partnership is dissolved becomes effective.
179.0103(4)(b)3.
3. A limited partnership's participation in a merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication, 90 days after the articles of merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication under subch.
XI become effective.
179.0103(4)(cr)
(cr) A person not a partner is deemed to know of a limitation on authority to transfer real property as provided in s.
179.04023 (7).
179.0103(5)
(5) Subject to s.
179.0210 (6), a person notifies another person of a fact by taking steps reasonably required to inform the other person in ordinary course, whether or not those steps cause the other person to know the fact.
179.0103(6)
(6) Except for a transferor partner's notice or knowledge of the transfer under s.
179.0702 (5) or a withdrawing partner's notice or knowledge of the withdrawal under s.
179.0601 (2) (a) or
179.0603 (1), a general partner's knowledge or notice of a fact relating to the limited partnership is effective immediately as knowledge of or notice to the partnership, except in the case of a fraud on the partnership committed by or with the consent of the general partner. A limited partner's knowledge or notice of a fact relating to the partnership is not effective as knowledge of or notice to the partnership.
179.0103(7m)
(7m) This subsection applies to notice that is required under this chapter and that is made subject to this subsection by express reference to this subsection. Written notice is effective at the earliest of the following:
179.0103(7m)(b)
(b) Five days after its deposit in the U.S. mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
179.0103(7m)(c)
(c) On the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee.
179.0103(7m)(d)
(d) For notices from the department, upon successful transmission by e-mail as provided in this chapter.
179.0103 History
History: 2021 a. 258.
179.0104(1)(1)
The law of this state governs all of the following:
179.0104(1)(b)
(b) The liability of a partner as partner for a debt, obligation, or other liability of a limited partnership.
179.0104(2m)
(2m) The fact that one or more of the partners of a partnership are, or are not, subject to tax on the income of the partnership shall have no effect on the application of the law of this state under sub.
(1).
179.0104(3m)
(3m) The partnership agreement may require, consistent with applicable jurisdictional requirements, that any or all claims involving the application of the law of this state under sub.
(1) shall be brought solely and exclusively in the courts of this state.
179.0104 History
History: 2021 a. 258.
179.0105
179.0105
Partnership agreement; scope, function, and limitations. 179.0105(1)(1)
Except as otherwise provided in subs.
(3) and
(4), the partnership agreement governs all of the following:
179.0105(1)(a)
(a) Relations among the partners as partners and between the partners and the limited partnership.
179.0105(1)(b)
(b) The activities and affairs of the partnership and the conduct of those activities and affairs.
179.0105(1)(c)
(c) The means and conditions for amending the partnership agreement.
179.0105(1)(d)
(d) Mergers, interest exchanges, conversions, and domestications under subch.
XI.
179.0105(2)
(2) To the extent the partnership agreement does not provide for a matter described in sub.
(1), this chapter governs the matter.
179.0105(3)
(3) A partnership agreement may not do any of the following:
179.0105(3)(b)
(b) Vary a limited partnership's capacity under s.
179.0111 to sue and be sued in its own name.
179.0105(3)(c)
(c) Vary any requirement, procedure, or other provision of this chapter pertaining to any of the following:
179.0105(3)(c)2.
2. The department, including provisions pertaining to records authorized or required to be delivered to the department for filing under this chapter.
179.0105(3)(e)
(e) Vary the right of a general partner under s.
179.0406 (2) (b) with respect to an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership which deletes a statement that the limited partnership is a limited liability limited partnership.
179.0105(3)(f)
(f) Alter or eliminate, or restrict remedies for the breach of, the duty of loyalty or the duty of care, except as otherwise provided in sub.
(4).
179.0105(3)(g)
(g) Eliminate the contractual obligation of good faith and fair dealing under ss.
179.0305 (1) and
179.0409 (4), but the partnership agreement may, if not manifestly unreasonable, prescribe the standards by which the performance of the obligation is to be measured or restrict remedies for breach of the obligation.
179.0105(3)(h)
(h) Relieve or exonerate a partner from liability for conduct that constitutes any of the following:
179.0105(3)(h)1.
1. A willful failure to deal fairly with the limited partnership or its partners in connection with a matter in which the partner has a material conflict of interest.
179.0105(3)(h)2.
2. A violation of the criminal law, unless the partner had reasonable cause to believe that the partner's conduct was lawful or no reasonable cause to believe that the partner's conduct was unlawful.
179.0105(3)(h)3.
3. A transaction from which the partner derived an improper personal profit.
179.0105(3)(i)
(i) Vary the information required under s.
179.0108 or unreasonably restrict the duties and rights under s.
179.0304 or
179.0407, but the partnership agreement may impose reasonable restrictions on the availability and use of information obtained under those sections and may define appropriate remedies, including liquidated damages and security, for a breach of any reasonable restriction on use.
179.0105(3)(k)
(k) Unless the partnership is a limited liability limited partnership, vary the power of a person to dissociate as a general partner under s.
179.0604 (1), except to require that the notice under s.
179.0603 (1) be in a record and to not unreasonably specify how the notice must be given.
179.0105(3)(n)
(n) Unreasonably restrict the right of a partner to maintain an action under subch.
IX.
179.0105(3)(o)
(o) Vary the provisions of s.
179.0905, but the partnership agreement may provide that the partnership may not have a special litigation committee.
179.0105(3)(pm)
(pm) Impair the rights of a partner under s.
179.1161, except to require that the notice of acceptance under s.
179.1161 (2) be in a record or be given within fewer than 60, but not fewer than 10, days of receipt of the offer.
179.0105(4)
(4) Subject to sub.
(3) (h), without limiting other terms that may be included in a partnership agreement, the following rules apply:
179.0105(4)(a)
(a) The partnership agreement may do any of the following:
