SB657,21,2322 (q) Except as otherwise provided in ss. 178.0106 and 178.0107 (2), restrict the
23rights under this chapter of a person other than a partner.
SB657,21,25 24(4) Subject to sub. (3) (h), without limiting other terms that may be included
25in a partnership agreement, the following rules apply:
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1(a) The partnership agreement may do any of the following:
SB657,22,42 1. Specify the method by which a specific act or transaction that would
3otherwise violate the duty of loyalty may be authorized or ratified by one or more
4disinterested and independent persons after full disclosure of all material facts.
SB657,22,65 2. Alter the prohibition in s. 178.0406 (1) (b) so that the prohibition requires
6only that the partnership's total assets not be less than the sum of its total liabilities.
SB657,22,117 (b) To the extent the partnership agreement expressly relieves a partner of a
8responsibility that the partner would otherwise have under this chapter and imposes
9the responsibility on one or more other partners, the agreement also may eliminate
10or limit any fiduciary duty of the partner relieved of the responsibility which would
11have pertained to the responsibility.
SB657,22,1312 (c) Except as provided in sub. (3) (h), if not manifestly unreasonable, the
13partnership agreement may do any of the following:
SB657,22,1514 1. Alter or eliminate the aspects of, or restrict remedies with respect to, the duty
15of loyalty stated in s. 178.0409 (2).
SB657,22,1716 2. Identify specific types or categories of activities that do not violate the duty
17of loyalty or the contractual obligation of good faith and fair dealing.
SB657,22,1818 3. Alter the duty of care.
SB657,22,1919 4. Alter or eliminate any other fiduciary duty.
SB657,23,2 20(5) The court shall decide as a matter of law whether a term of a partnership
21agreement is manifestly unreasonable under sub. (3) (f) or (4) (c). The court shall
22make its determination as of the time the challenged term became part of the
23partnership agreement and by considering only circumstances existing at that time.
24The court may invalidate the term only if, in light of the purposes and business of the

1partnership, it is readily apparent that the objective of the term is unreasonable or
2that the term is an unreasonable means to achieve the term's objective.
SB657,23,6 3178.0106 Partnership agreement; effect on partnership and person
4becoming partner; preformation agreement.
(1) A partnership is bound by and
5may enforce the partnership agreement, whether or not the partnership has itself
6manifested assent to the agreement.
SB657,23,8 7(2) A person that becomes a partner is deemed to assent to the partnership
8agreement.
SB657,23,11 9(3) Two or more persons intending to become the initial partners of a
10partnership may make an agreement providing that upon the formation of the
11partnership the agreement will become the partnership agreement.
SB657,23,17 12178.0107 Partnership agreement; effect on third parties and
13relationship to records effective on behalf of partnership.
(1) A partnership
14agreement may specify that its amendment requires the approval of a person that
15is not a party to the agreement or the satisfaction of a condition. An amendment is
16ineffective if its adoption does not include the required approval or satisfy the
17specified condition.
SB657,23,23 18(2) The obligations of a partnership and its partners to a person in the person's
19capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a partner are governed by the
20partnership agreement. Subject only to a court order issued under s. 178.0504 (2)
21(b) to effectuate a charging order, all of the following apply to an amendment to the
22partnership agreement made after a person becomes a transferee or is dissociated
23as a partner:
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1(a) Except as provided in par. (b), the amendment is effective with regard to any
2debt, obligation, or other liability of the partnership or its partners to the person in
3the person's capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a partner.
SB657,24,54 (b) The amendment is not effective to the extent the amendment does any of
5the following:
SB657,24,76 1. Imposes a new debt, obligation, or other liability on the transferee or person
7dissociated as a partner.
SB657,24,98 2. Prejudices the rights under s. 178.0701 of a person that dissociated as a
9partner before the amendment was made.
SB657,24,13 10(3) If a record delivered by a partnership to the department for filing becomes
11effective and contains a provision that would be ineffective under s. 178.0105 (3) or
12(4) (c) if contained in the partnership agreement, the provision is ineffective in the
13record.
SB657,24,16 14(4) Subject to sub. (3), if a record delivered by a partnership to the department
15for filing becomes effective and conflicts with a provision of the partnership
16agreement, all of the following apply:
SB657,24,1817 (a) The agreement prevails as to partners, persons dissociated as partners, and
18transferees.
SB657,24,2019 (b) The record prevails as to other persons to the extent they reasonably rely
20on the record.
SB657,24,23 21178.0108 Signing of records to be delivered for filing to the
22department.
(1) A record delivered to the department for filing pursuant to this
23chapter must be signed as follows:
SB657,24,2524 (a) Except as otherwise provided in pars. (b) and (c), a record signed by a
25partnership must be signed by a person authorized by the partnership.
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1(b) A record filed on behalf of a dissolved partnership that has no partner must
2be signed by the person winding up the partnership's business under s. 178.0802 (4)
3or a person appointed under s. 178.0802 (5) to wind up the business.
SB657,25,54 (c) A statement of denial by a person under s. 178.0304 must be signed by that
5person.
SB657,25,76 (d) Any record not identified in pars. (a) to (c) that is delivered on behalf of a
7person to the department for filing must be signed by that person.
SB657,25,11 8(2) A record filed under this chapter may be signed by an attorney-in-fact.
9Whenever this chapter requires a particular individual to sign a record and the
10individual is deceased or incompetent, the record may be signed by a legal
11representative of the individual.
SB657,25,13 12(3) A person that signs a record as an attorney-in-fact or legal representative
13affirms as a fact that the person is authorized to sign the record.
SB657,25,17 14178.0109 Liability for inaccurate information in filed record. (1) If a
15record delivered to the department for filing under this chapter and filed by the
16department contains inaccurate information, a person that suffers loss by reliance
17on the information may recover damages for the loss from any of the following:
SB657,25,1918 (a) A person that signed the record, or caused another to sign it on the person's
19behalf, and knew the information to be inaccurate at the time the record was signed.
SB657,25,2020 (b) Subject to sub. (2), a partner if all of the following apply:
SB657,25,2121 1. The record was delivered for filing on behalf of the partnership.
SB657,25,2422 2. The partner knew or had notice of the inaccuracy for a reasonably sufficient
23time before the information was relied upon so that, before the reliance, the partner
24reasonably could have done any of the following:
SB657,25,2525 a. Effected an amendment under s. 178.0901 (6).
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1b. Filed a petition under s. 178.0112.
SB657,26,32 c. Delivered to the department for filing a statement of change under s.
3178.0909 or a statement of correction under s. 178.0116.
SB657,26,9 4(2) To the extent the partnership agreement expressly relieves a partner of
5responsibility for maintaining the accuracy of information contained in records
6delivered on behalf of the partnership to the department for filing under this chapter
7and imposes that responsibility on one or more other partners, the liability stated in
8sub. (1) (b) applies to those other partners and not to the partner that the partnership
9agreement relieves of the responsibility.
SB657,26,12 10(3) An individual who signs a record authorized or required to be filed under
11this chapter affirms under penalty of perjury that the information stated in the
12record is accurate.
SB657,26,15 13178.0110 Applicability. (1) This chapter applies to a partnership formed on
14or after January 1, 2018, unless the partnership is the successor to a partnership
15under s. 178.36, 2013 stats.
SB657,26,18 16(2) On January 1, 2018, this chapter applies to a partnership formed before
17January 1, 2018, including a partnership that is the successor to a partnership under
18s. 178.36, 2013 stats., except as follows:
SB657,26,2419 (a) If a partnership elects, in a manner allowed by law for amending the
20partnership agreement, to be subject to this chapter as of any date between the
21effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], and January 1, 2018, and files
22with the department a statement of applicability to that effect, this chapter applies
23to the partnership as of the date that the statement of applicability is effective under
24s. 178.0114.
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1(b) If a partnership elects, in a manner allowed by law for amending the
2partnership agreement, to continue to be subject to ch. 178, 2013 stats., and files with
3the department a statement of nonapplicability to that effect prior to January 1,
42018, the partnership shall not be subject to this chapter. Thereafter, if the
5partnership elects, in such manner, to be subject to this chapter as of any subsequent
6date and files with the department a statement of applicability to that effect, this
7chapter applies to the partnership as of the date that the statement of applicability
8is effective under s. 178.0114.
SB657,27,109 (c) Any statement of applicability to be subject to this chapter pursuant to a
10valid election by the partnership shall be irrevocable upon such filing.
SB657,27,1211 (d) Upon this chapter becoming applicable with respect to a partnership, all of
12the following apply:
SB657,27,1513 1. This chapter shall not, and the corresponding provisions of ch. 178, 2013
14stats., shall, be applicable with respect to obligations incurred by the partnership
15prior to such applicability.
SB657,27,1916 2. Any provisions of a partnership agreement that were valid and in effect
17immediately prior to this chapter becoming applicable with respect to the
18partnership shall continue to be valid and applicable to the extent allowed under
19prior law.
SB657,27,2320 3. A registration statement filed by a registered limited liability partnership
21or foreign registered limited liability partnership under ch. 178, 2013 stats., shall be
22effective as a statement of qualification or statement of foreign qualification,
23respectively, under this chapter.
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1178.0111 Delivery of record. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this
2chapter, permissible means of delivery of a record include delivery by hand, mail,
3conventional commercial practice, and electronic transmission.
SB657,28,5 4(2) Delivery to the department is effective only when a record is received by the
5department.
SB657,28,9 6178.0112 Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order. (1) If a person
7required by this chapter to sign a record or deliver a record to the department for
8filing under this chapter does not do so, any other person that is aggrieved may
9petition the circuit court to order any of the following:
SB657,28,1010 (a) The person to sign the record.
SB657,28,1111 (b) The person to deliver the record to the department for filing.
SB657,28,1212 (c) The department to file the record unsigned.
SB657,28,15 13(2) If a petitioner under sub. (1) is not the partnership or foreign partnership
14to which the record pertains, the petitioner shall make the partnership or foreign
15partnership a party to the action.
SB657,28,16 16(3) A record filed under sub. (1) (c) is effective without being signed.
SB657,28,19 17178.0113 Filing requirements. (1) Subject to sub. (1m), to be filed by the
18department pursuant to this chapter, a record must be received by the department,
19comply with this chapter, and satisfy all of the following:
SB657,28,2020 (a) The filing of the record must be required or permitted by this chapter.
SB657,28,2221 (b) The record must be physically delivered in written form unless and to the
22extent the department permits electronic delivery of records.
SB657,28,2523 (c) The words in the record must be in English, and numbers must be in Arabic
24or Roman numerals, but the name of an entity need not be in English if written in
25English letters or Arabic or Roman numerals.
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1(d) The record must be signed by a person authorized or required under this
2chapter to sign the record.
SB657,29,63 (e) The record must state the name and capacity, if any, of each individual who
4signed it, either on behalf of the individual or the person authorized or required to
5sign the record, but need not contain a seal, attestation, acknowledgment, or
6verification.
SB657,29,77 (f) The record must contain the name of the drafter, if required by s. 182.01 (3).
SB657,29,10 8(1m) The department may waive any of the requirements of sub. (1) (a) to (f)
9if it appears from the face of the document that the document's failure to satisfy the
10requirement is immaterial.
SB657,29,14 11(2) If law other than this chapter prohibits the disclosure by the department
12of information contained in a record delivered to the department for filing, the
13department shall file the record if the record otherwise complies with this chapter
14but may redact the information.
SB657,29,17 15(3) When a record is delivered to the department for filing, any fee required
16under this chapter and any fee, interest, or penalty required to be paid to the
17department must be paid in a manner permitted by the department.
SB657,29,19 18(5) The department may provide forms for filings required or permitted to be
19made by this chapter and may require their use.
SB657,29,22 20178.0114 Effective date and time. Except as otherwise provided in s.
21178.0115 and subject to s. 178.0116 (3), a record filed under this chapter is effective
22as follows:
SB657,29,24 23(1) Except as provided in subs. (2) and (3), on the date that it is received by the
24department for filing and at any of the following times on that date:
SB657,29,2525 (a) The time of day specified in the document as its effective time.
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1(b) If no effective time is specified, at the close of business.
SB657,30,3 2(2) The date that a document is received by the department is determined by
3the department's endorsement on the original document under s. 178.0117 (2).
SB657,30,9 4(3) A document may specify a delayed effective date and time, except the
5effective date may not be more than 90 days after the date that it is received for filing.
6If a document specifies a delayed effective date and time in accordance with this
7subsection, the document is effective at the time and date specified. If a delayed
8effective date, but no time, is specified, the document is effective at the close of
9business on that date.
SB657,30,13 10178.0115 Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness. (1) Except as
11otherwise provided in ss. 178.1123 (2), 178.1133 (2), 178.1143 (2), and 178.1153 (2),
12a record delivered to the department for filing may be withdrawn before it takes
13effect by delivering to the department for filing a statement of withdrawal.
SB657,30,14 14(2) A statement of withdrawal must satisfy all of the following:
SB657,30,1615 (a) It must be signed by each person that signed the record being withdrawn,
16except as otherwise agreed by those persons.
SB657,30,1717 (b) It must identify the record to be withdrawn.
SB657,30,2018 (c) If signed by fewer than all the persons that signed the record being
19withdrawn, it must state that the record is withdrawn in accordance with the
20agreement of all the persons that signed the record.
SB657,30,22 21(3) On filing by the department of a statement of withdrawal, the action or
22transaction evidenced by the original record does not take effect.
SB657,30,25 23178.0116 Correcting filed record. (1) A person on whose behalf a filed
24record was delivered to the department for filing may correct the record if any of the
25following applies:
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1(a) The record at the time of filing was inaccurate.
SB657,31,22 (b) The record was defectively signed.
SB657,31,33 (c) The electronic transmission of the record to the department was defective.
SB657,31,5 4(2) To correct a filed record, a person on whose behalf the record was delivered
5to the department must deliver to the department for filing a statement of correction.
SB657,31,6 6(3) (a) A statement of correction may not state a delayed effective date.
SB657,31,77 (b) A statement of correction must satisfy all of the following:
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