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...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, a member may maintain a direct action against another member or members or the limited liability company, or a series thereof, to enforce the member's rights and otherwise protect the member's interests, including rights and interests under the operating agreement or this chapter or arising independently of the membership relationship. (B) A member maintaining a direct a...

...(A) A limited liability company may merge with one or more other constituent entities pursuant to sections 1706.71 to 1706.713 of the Revised Code and to an agreement of merger if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The governing statute of each of the other entities authorizes the merger. (2) The merger is not prohibited by the law of a jurisdiction that enacted any of the governing statutes. (3) Each...

...(A) To be effective, an agreement of merger shall be consented to by all the members of a constituent limited liability company. (B) After the agreement of merger is approved, and at any time before a certificate of merger is delivered to the secretary of state for filing under section 1706.712 of the Revised Code, a constituent limited liability company may amend the agreement or abandon the merger: (1) As provi...

...(A) After each constituent entity has approved the agreement of merger, a certificate of merger shall be signed on behalf of both of the following: (1) Each constituent limited liability company, as provided in division (A) of section 1706.17 of the Revised Code; (2) Each other constituent entity, as provided in its governing statute. (B) A certificate of merger under this section shall include all of the follo...

...ity consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state to enforce any debt, obligation, or other liability owed by a constituent entity, if before the merger the constituent entity was subject to suit in this state on the debt, obligation, or other liability. Service of process on a surviving entity that is a foreign entity and not authorized to transact business in this state for the purposes of enforcing a de...

...(A) An entity other than a limited liability company may convert to a limited liability company, and a limited liability company may convert to an entity other than a limited liability company pursuant to sections 1706.72 to 1706.723 of the Revised Code and a written declaration of conversion if all of the following apply: (1) The governing statute of the entity that is not a limited liability company authorizes th...

...(A) A declaration of conversion must be consented to by all the members of a converting limited liability company. (B) After a conversion is approved, and at any time before the certificate of conversion is delivered to the secretary of state for filing under section 1706.722 of the Revised Code, a converting limited liability company may amend the declaration or abandon the conversion: (1) As provided in the dec...

...(A) After a declaration of conversion is approved, both of the following apply: (1) A converting limited liability company shall deliver to the secretary of state for filing a certificate of conversion. The certificate of conversion shall be signed as provided in division (A) of section 1706.17 of the Revised Code and shall include all of the following: (a) A statement that the converting limited liability compan...

...ity consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state to enforce any debt, obligation, or other liability for which the converting limited liability company, or series thereof, is liable if, before the conversion, the converting limited liability company, or series thereof, was subject to suit in this state on the debt, obligation, or other liability. Service of process on a converted entity that is a foreign ...

...(A) If a member of a constituent or converting limited liability company will have personal liability with respect to a surviving or converted entity, approval or amendment of a plan of merger or a declaration of conversion are ineffective without the consent of the member, unless both of the following conditions are met: (1) The limited liability company's operating agreement provides for approval of a merger or c...

...Sections 1706.71 to 1706.74 of the Revised Code do not preclude an entity from being merged or converted under law other than this chapter.

...(A) An operating agreement may establish or provide for the establishment of one or more designated series of assets that has both of the following: (1) Either or both of the following: (a) Separate rights, powers, or duties with respect to specified property or obligations of the limited liability company or profits and losses associated with specified property or obligations; (b) A separate purpose or investm...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, both of the following apply: (1) The debts, liabilities, obligations, and expenses incurred, contracted for, or otherwise existing with respect to a series shall be enforceable against the assets of that series only, and shall not be enforceable against the assets of the limited liability company generally or any other series thereof. (2) None of the debts, liabilities...

...omputational or allocational formula or procedure, including a percentage or share of any assets, or by any other method in which the identity of the assets can be objectively determined, the records are considered to satisfy the requirement of division (B)(1) of section 1706.761 of the Revised Code.

...The statement of limitation on liabilities of a series required by division (B)(3) of section 1706.761 of the Revised Code is sufficient regardless of whether either of the following applies: (A) The limited liability company has established any series under this chapter when the statement of limitations is contained in the articles of organization; (B) The statement of limitations makes reference to a specific s...

...(A) A person shall not voluntarily dissociate as a member associated with a series. (B) A person's dissociation from a series is wrongful only if one of the following applies: (1) The person's dissociation is in breach of an express provision of the operating agreement. (2) The person is expelled as a member associated with the series by determination of a tribunal under division (E) of section 1706.765 of the ...

...A person is dissociated as a member associated with a series when any of the following occurs: (A) An event stated in the operating agreement as causing the person's dissociation from the series occurs. (B) The person is dissociated as a member of the limited liability company pursuant to section 1706.411 of the Revised Code. (C) The person is expelled as a member associated with that series pursuant to the ope...

...(A) A person who has dissociated as a member associated with a series shall have no right to participate in the activities and affairs of that series and is entitled only to receive the distributions to which that member would have been entitled if the member had not dissociated from that series. (B) A person's dissociation as a member associated with a series does not of itself discharge the person from any debt, ...

...A series may be dissolved and its activities and affairs may be wound up without causing the dissolution of the limited liability company. The dissolution and winding up of a series does not abate, suspend, or otherwise affect the limitation on liabilities of the series provided by section 1706.761 of the Revised Code.

...he series, the entry by the appropriate court of an order dissolving the series on the grounds that it is not reasonably practicable to carry on the series' activities in conformity with the operating agreement.

...r settle actions or proceedings whether civil, criminal, or administrative; (3) Make an assignment of the series' property; (4) Resolve disputes by mediation or arbitration. (C) A series' dissolution, in itself: (1) Is not an assignment of the series' property; (2) Does not prevent the commencement of a proceeding by or against the series in the series' name; (3) Does not abate or suspend a proceeding pen...

...(A) Subject to division (C) of section 1706.769 of the Revised Code, after dissolution of a series, the remaining members associated with the series, if any, and if none, a person appointed by all holders of the membership interest last assigned by the last person to have been a member associated with the series, may wind up the series' activities. (B) The appropriate tribunal may order supervision of the winding u...

...nown claims against it by following the procedures described in division (B) of this section, at any time after the effective date of the dissolution of the series. (B) A dissolved series may give notice of the dissolution in a record to the holder of any known claim. The notice shall do all of the following: (1) Identify the limited liability company and the dissolved series; (2) Describe the information requi...

...ile an application with the appropriate court in the county in which the limited liability company's principal office is located or, if it has none in this state, in the county in which the limited liability company's statutory agent is or was last located. The application shall be for a determination of the amount and form of security to be provided for payment of claims that are contingent or have not been made kno...

...(A) Upon the winding up of a series, payment or adequate provision for payment shall be made to creditors of the series, including, to the extent permitted by law, members who are associated with the series and who are also creditors of the series, in satisfaction of liabilities of the series. (B) After a series complies with division (A) of this section, any surplus shall be distributed as follows: (1) First, to...

...Courts of record may refuse to render or enter a declaratory judgment or decree under this chapter if the judgment or decree would not terminate the uncertainty or controversy giving rise to the action or proceeding in which the declaratory relief is sought.

... are other judgments and decrees of the court of record involved.

...d Code, whenever necessary or proper, a court of record may grant further relief based on a declaratory judgment or decree previously granted under this chapter. The application for the further relief shall be by a complaint filed in a court of record with jurisdiction to grant the further relief. If the application is sufficient, the court, on reasonable notice, shall require any adverse party whose rights have been...

...etermined in other civil actions in the court in which the action or proceeding is pending.

...elief is sought under this chapter, the court may make an award of court costs as is equitable and just.

...A declaratory judgment or decree that a court of record enters in an action or proceeding under this chapter between an insurer and a holder of a policy of liability insurance issued by the insurer and that resolves an issue as to whether the policy's coverage provisions extend to an injury, death, or loss to person or property that an insured under the policy allegedly tortiously caused shall be deemed to have the b...

...The provisions of this chapter are remedial and shall be liberally construed and administered.

...The provisions of this chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make the law of this state uniform with the law of those states that enact similar provisions and to harmonize, insofar as possible, with federal laws and regulations on the subject of declaratory judgments and decrees.

...With the exception of sections 2721.02 and 2721.03 of the Revised Code, the provisions of this chapter are independent and severable, and the invalidity of any part of those provisions does not affect or render the remainder of those provisions invalid or inoperative.

...23.51 of the Revised Code, by the Civil Rules, or by an award of punitive or exemplary damages against the party ordered to pay attorney's fees. (c) Regardless of whether a claim for declaratory relief is granted under this chapter, a court of record awards attorney's fees to a fiduciary, beneficiary, or other interested party, the attorney's fees are to be paid out of trust property, estate property, or other prope...

...uting attorney may bring an action in a court designated in division (C) of this section for a declaratory judgment finding that the person would have been liable for assault or battery based on childhood sexual abuse but for the expiration of the limitation period under section 2305.111 of the Revised Code. The attorney general or prosecuting attorney may bring an action pursuant to this section only for childhood s...

...Courts of common pleas may enjoin the illegal levy or collection of taxes and assessments and entertain actions to recover them when collected, without regard to the amount thereof, but no recovery shall be had unless the action is brought within one year after the taxes or assessments are collected.

...Actions to enjoin the illegal levy of taxes and assessments must be brought against the corporation or person for whose use and benefit the levy is made. If the levy would go upon the county duplicate, the county auditor must be joined in the action.

...Actions to enjoin the collection of taxes and assessments must be brought against the officer whose duty it is to collect them. Actions to recover taxes and assessments must be brought against the officer who made the collection, or if he is dead, against his personal representative. When they were not collected on the county duplicate, each corporation or board which is entitled to share in the revenue so collected ...

...If the plaintiff in an action to enjoin the collection of taxes or assessments admits that a part thereof was legally levied, he first must pay or tender the sum admitted to be due. When an injunction is allowed, bond must be given as in other cases. The injunction shall be a justification of the officers charged with the collection of such taxes or assessments for not collecting them.

...If, by judgment or final order of any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, in an action not pending on appeal, it is determined that any tax or assessment or part thereof was illegal and such judgment or order is not made in time to prevent the collection or payment of such tax or assessment, then such tax or assessment or such part thereof as is at the time of such judgment or order unexpended and in the p...

...Whoever is unlawfully restrained of his liberty, or entitled to the custody of another, of which custody such person is unlawfully deprived, may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus, to inquire into the cause of such imprisonment, restraint, or deprivation.

...as corpus may be granted by the supreme court, court of appeals, court of common pleas, probate court, or by a judge of any such court.

... of the officers of the institution, no court or judge other than the courts or judges of the county in which the institution is located has jurisdiction to issue or determine a writ of habeas corpus for his production or discharge. Any writ issued by a court or judge of another county to an officer or person in charge at the state institution to compel the production or discharge of an inmate thereof is void.

...Application for the writ of habeas corpus shall be by petition, signed and verified either by the party for whose relief it is intended, or by some person for him, and shall specify: (A) That the person in whose behalf the application is made is imprisoned, or restrained of his liberty; (B) The officer, or name of the person by whom the prisoner is so confined or restrained; or, if both are unknown or uncertain, su...

...of an officer under process issued by a court or magistrate, or by virtue of the judgment or order of a court of record, and that the court or magistrate had jurisdiction to issue the process, render the judgment, or make the order, the writ of habeas corpus shall not be allowed. If the jurisdiction appears after the writ is allowed, the person shall not be discharged by reason of any informality or defect in the pr...

...appears that the writ ought to issue, a court or judge authorized to grant the writ must grant it forthwith.

...eas corpus is granted, the clerk of the court which granted the writ shall forthwith issue said writ under the seal of such court. In case of emergency, the judge who allowed the writ may issue it under his own hand, and depute any officer or other person to serve it.

...The person to be produced upon a writ of habeas corpus shall be designated by his name, if known, and if his name is not known, or is uncertain, such person may be described in any other way so as to make known who is intended.

...mand him to have such person before the court or judge designated in the writ, at a time and place therein specified.