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...(A) The transaction of business in this state by a business trust in violation of this chapter does not affect the validity of any contract with such trust, or the validity of the title to any estate or interest in real or personal property taken, held, or disposed of by such trust. No business trust that has transacted business in violation of this chapter, nor any persons acting on its behalf, shall maintain any ac...

...Any business trust may be a party, with one or more other entities, to an agreement of merger, consolidation, or sale, or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets, provided that the agreement of merger, consolidation, or sale, or other disposition is approved in the manner set forth in the trust instrument or, if the trust instrument contains no procedure for such approval, by the holders of a majo...

...Revised Code is applicable to a foreign business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code, except to the extent that such provisions may be inconsistent with the applicable laws of the state or jurisdiction under which the foreign business trust was organized.

...No person knowingly shall prepare, make, assist in preparing or making, or procure or advise the preparing or making of any false or fraudulent filings required or permitted by sections 1746.01 to 1746.20 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates section 1746.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Business" includes every trade, occupation, and profession. (B) "Debtor in bankruptcy" means a person who is the subject of an order for relief under Title 11 of the United States Code, a comparable order under a successor statute of general application, or a comparable order under any federal, state, or foreign law governing insolvency. (C) "Constituent" means in a merger or co...

... is delivered at the person's place of business or at any other place the person holds out as a place for receiving communications. (E)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (F) of this section, a person other than an individual knows, has notice, or receives a notification of a fact for purposes of a particular transaction when the individual conducting the transaction knows, has notice, or receives a n...

... requirement to wind up the partnership business in cases specified in division (D), (E), or (F) of section 1776.61 of the Revised Code; (9) Vary the law applicable to a limited liability partnership under division (B) of section 1776.06 of the Revised Code; (10) Restrict rights of third parties under this chapter.

...(A) Unless displaced by particular provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity supplement this chapter. (B) If an obligation to pay interest under this chapter does not specify a rate of interest, the rate is that specified in section 1343.03 of the Revised Code. (C) No partnership and no person acting on behalf of a partnership shall interpose the defense or make the claim of usury in any ...

...(A) A statement may be filed in the office of the secretary of state. A certified copy of a statement that is filed in an office in another state may be filed in the office of the secretary of state provided that it is accompanied by a form the secretary of state prescribes for that purpose. Either filing has the effect provided in this chapter with respect to partnership property located in, or transactions th...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the law of the jurisdiction in which a partnership has its chief executive office governs relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership. (B) The law of this state governs relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership, and the liability of partners for an obligation, of a limited liability partnership. (C...

... association, professional association, business trust, or unincorporated nonprofit association that has a business address in this state. If the agent is an entity other than a domestic corporation, the agent shall meet the requirements of Title XVII of the Revised Code for an entity of the agent's type to transact business or exercise privileges in this state. (B)(1) The secretary of state shall not accept an ori...

...under the laws of this state or doing business in this state may be made by delivering a copy personally to any partner doing business in this state or by leaving it at a partner's dwelling house or usual place of abode in this state or at a place of business of the partnership in this state. (B) Nothing in this section limits or affects the right to serve process in any other manner now or hereafter prov...

...Code, as that person's agent upon whom service of process may be made. Any process so served shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served upon the partner or liquidating trustee within this state. (B) In a written partnership agreement or other writing, a partner may consent to be subject to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the courts of, or arbitration in, a specified jurisdiction, or the exclu...

...(A) Any person who is adversely affected by the failure or refusal of a person to execute a statement as this chapter requires may petition the court of common pleas to direct the execution of that statement. If the court finds that the execution of the statement is proper and that a person has failed or refused to execute that statement as designated, the court shall order the secretary of state to file that s...

...(A) Any statement filed with the secretary of state pursuant to this chapter that is an inaccurate record of the action referred to in the statement, or that was defectively or erroneously executed, may be corrected by filing a statement of correction with the secretary of state. The statement of correction shall specify the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected, set forth the inaccurate or defective portion of ...

...(A) A partnership is an entity distinct from its partners. (B) A limited liability partnership continues to be the same entity that existed before the filing of a statement of qualification under section 1776.81 of the Revised Code. (C) Except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code or the partnership agreement, a partnership formed under this chapter has authority to engage in any activity in which a domes...

...debt by installments or otherwise; (b) Services as an independent contractor or wages or other compensation to an employee; (c) Rent; (d) An annuity or other retirement or health benefit to a beneficiary, representative, or designee of a deceased or retired partner; (e) Interest or other charge on a loan, even if the amount of payment varies with the profits of the business, including a direct or indirect pr...

...(A) Property acquired by a partnership is property of the partnership and not the property of the partners individually. (B) Property is partnership property if the property is acquired in the name of either of the following: (1) The partnership; (2) One or more partners when the instrument transferring title to the property indicates that the transferee holds the property in the capacity as a partner, or th...

...a partner may be in cash, property, or services rendered, or a promissory note or other obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services. (B) A partner is obligated to the partnership to perform any promise to contribute cash, property, or services even if the partner is unable to perform because of death, disability, or any other reason. If a partner does not make the required contribution ...

...the partnership for the purpose of its business. An act of a partner, including the execution of an instrument in the partnership name, for apparently carrying on in the ordinary course the partnership business or business of the kind carried on by the partnership binds the partnership, unless the partner had no authority to act for the partnership in the particular matter and the person with whom the partner ...

...(A) Partnership property may be transferred as follows: (1) Partnership property held in the name of the partnership may be transferred by an instrument of transfer a partner executes in the partnership name, subject to any statement of partnership authority under section 1776.33 of the Revised Code. (2) Partnership property held in the name of one or more partners, when the instrument transferring the proper...

...) The name and address of the agent for service of process and the signed acceptance of appointment, as section 1776.07 of the Revised Code requires. (2) Any statement filed pursuant to this section may state the names of the partners authorized to execute an instrument transferring real property held in the name of the partnership, the authority, including any limitations, that some or all of the partners hav...

...A partner, or other person that a filed statement of partnership authority names as a partner or included in a list an agent maintains pursuant to division (B) of section 1776.33 of the Revised Code, may file a statement of denial stating the name of the partnership and the fact that is being denied, which may include denial of a person's authority or status as a partner. A statement of denial is a limitation o...

...rtner acting in the ordinary course of business of the partnership or with authority of the partnership. (B) A partnership is liable for the loss if, in the course of the partnership's business or while acting with authority of the partnership, a partner receives or causes the partnership to receive money or property of a person not a partner, and a partner misapplies the money or property.