{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-601.09","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 29-601.09","heading":"Partnership agreement; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of partnership.","body":"(a)\nA partnership agreement may specify that its amendment requires the approval of a person that is not a party to the agreement or the satisfaction of a condition. An amendment is ineffective if its adoption does not include the required approval or satisfy the specified condition.\n\n(b)\nThe obligations of a partnership and its partners to a person in the person’s capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a partner are governed by the partnership agreement. Subject only to a court order issued under § 29-605.04 to effectuate a charging order, an amendment to the partnership agreement made after a person becomes a transferee or is dissociated as a partner:\n(1)\nIs effective with regard to any debt, obligation, or other liability of the partnership or its partners to the person in the person’s capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a partner; and\n(2)\nIs not effective to the extent the amendment:\n(A)\nImposes a new debt, obligation, or other liability on the transferee or person dissociated as a partner; or\n(B)\nPrejudices the rights under § 29-607.01 of a person that dissociated as a partner before the amendment was made.\n\n(c)\nIf a record delivered by a partnership to the Mayor for filing becomes effective under this chapter and contains a provision that would be ineffective under § 29-601.04(b) or (d)(2) if contained in the partnership agreement, the provision is ineffective in the record.\n\n(d)\nSubject to subsection (c) of this section, if a record delivered by a partnership to the Mayor for filing becomes effective under this chapter and conflicts with a provision of the partnership agreement:\n(1)\nThe agreement prevails as to partners, persons dissociated as partners, and transferees; and\n(2)\nThe record prevails as to other persons to the extent they reasonably rely on the record.","path":["Title 29. Business Organizations. [Enacted title]","Chapter 6. General Partnerships.","Subchapter I. General Provisions."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/29-601.09","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"7cb6d64fb2bfd013bac963f89e043d4baf3d0e3b399cd83f22f52f6ec1188312","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-601.08","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-601.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}