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limited partners. See Section 901(4). The purpose of the
unanimity requirement is to protect a limited partner from exposure
to personal liability as a general partner without clear and
knowing consent at the time of conversion. Despite a general
voting provision to the contrary in the partnership agreement,
conversion to a general partnership may never have been
contemplated by the limited partner when the partnership investment
was made.

 
Subsection (c) provides that, after approval of the
conversion, the converted partnership must cancel its certificate
of limited partnership. See RULPA § 203.

 
Subsection (d) provides that the conversion takes effect when
the certificate of limited partnership is canceled.

 
Subsection (e) provides that a limited partner who becomes a
general partner is liable as a general partner for all
partnership obligations for which a general partner would
otherwise be personally liable for if incurred after the
effective date of the conversion, but still has only limited
liability for obligations incurred before the conversion.

 
§1094.__Effect of conversion; entity unchanged

 
1.__Same entity.__A partnership or limited partnership that
has been converted pursuant to this subchapter is for all
purposes the same entity that existed before the conversion.

 
2.__Effect of conversion.__When a conversion takes effect:

 
A.__All property owned by the converting partnership or
limited partnership remains vested in the converted entity;

 
B.__All obligations of the converting partnership or limited
partnership continue as obligations of the converted entity;
and

 
C.__An action or proceeding pending against the converting
partnership or limited partnership may be continued as if
the conversion had not occurred.

 
Comment

 
(This is Section 904 of the Uniform Partnership Act (1997).)

 
Section 904 sets forth the effect of a conversion on the
partnership. Subsection (a) provides that the converted
partnership is for all purposes the same entity as before the
conversion.


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