{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-809.09","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 29-809.09","heading":"Effect of domestication.","body":"(a)\nWhen a domestication takes effect:\n(1)\nThe domesticated company shall be for all purposes the company that existed before the domestication;\n(2)\nAll property owned by the domesticating company shall remain vested in the domesticated company;\n(3)\nAll debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the domesticating company shall continue as debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the domesticated company;\n(4)\nAn action or proceeding pending by or against a domesticating company may be continued as if the domestication had not occurred;\n(5)\nExcept as prohibited by other law, all of the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of the domesticating company shall remain vested in the domesticated company;\n(6)\nExcept as otherwise provided in the plan of domestication, the terms and conditions of the plan of domestication shall take effect; and\n(7)\nExcept as otherwise agreed, the domestication shall not dissolve a domesticating limited liability company for the purposes of subchapter VII of this chapter.\n\n(b)\nA domesticated company that is a foreign limited liability company consents to the jurisdiction of the Superior Court to enforce any debt, obligation, or other liability owed by the domesticating company, if, before the domestication, the domesticating company was subject to suit in the District on the debt, obligation, or other liability. A domesticated company that is a foreign limited liability company and not authorized to do business in the District may be served with process as provided in § 29-404.12 for purposes of enforcing a debt, obligation, or other liability under this subsection. Service on the Mayor under this subsection shall be made in the same manner and has the same consequences as in § 29-104.12.\n\n(c)\nIf a limited liability company has adopted and approved a plan of domestication under § 29-809.06 providing for the company to be domesticated in a foreign jurisdiction, a statement surrendering the company’s certificate of organization shall be delivered to the Mayor for filing setting forth:\n(1)\nThe name of the company;\n(2)\nA statement that the certificate of organization is being surrendered in connection with the domestication of the company in a foreign jurisdiction;\n(3)\nA statement the domestication was approved as required by this chapter; and\n(4)\nThe jurisdiction of formation of the domesticated foreign limited liability company.","path":["Title 29. Business Organizations. [Enacted title]","Chapter 8. Limited Liability Companies.","Subchapter IX. Merger and Domestication."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/29-809.09","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"e16a148de141f3c358b372df5316e96d3a94afbc2458f66734235faaadf52dfb","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-809.08","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-29-809.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}