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District of Columbia · Through 2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)

D.C. Code § 29-607.02: Dissociated partner’s power to bind and liability to partnership.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Title 29. Business Organizations. [Enacted title]
  2. Chapter 6. General Partnerships.
  3. Subchapter VII. Partner’s Dissociation When Business Not Wound Up.

(a)

For 2 years after a partner dissociates without resulting in a dissolution and winding up of the partnership business, the partnership, including a surviving partnership under subchapter IX of this chapter, shall be bound by an act of the dissociated partner which would have bound the partnership under § 29-603.01 before dissociation only if at the time of entering into the transaction the other party:

(1)

Reasonably believed that the dissociated partner was then a partner;

(2)

Did not have notice of the partner’s dissociation; and

(3)

Is not deemed to have had knowledge under § 29-603.03(e) or notice under § 29-607.04(c).

(b)

A dissociated partner shall be liable to the partnership for any damage caused to the partnership arising from a debt, obligation, or other liability incurred by the dissociated partner after dissociation for which the partnership is liable under subsection (a) of this section.

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