A. The articles of organization or an operating agreement of a limited liability company may delegate full or partial responsibility for managing a limited liability company to or among one or more managers.
B. Managers need not be residents of this Commonwealth or members of the limited liability company unless the articles of organization or an operating agreement so require. The articles of organization or an operating agreement may prescribe other qualifications for managers.
C. The number of managers shall be fixed by or in the manner provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement. The number of managers may be increased or decreased by amendment to, or in the manner provided in, the articles of organization or an operating agreement.
D. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, managers shall be elected by the members.
E. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, any vacancy occurring in the office of manager shall be filled by a majority vote of the members.
F. All managers or any lesser number may be removed in the manner provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement. If the articles of organization or an operating agreement does not provide for the removal of managers, then all managers or any lesser number may be removed with or without cause by a majority vote of the members.
G. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, any action required or permitted to be taken by the managers of a limited liability company may be taken upon a majority vote of the managers.
H. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, a manager of a limited liability company has the power and authority to delegate to one or more other persons the manager's rights and powers to manage and control the business and affairs of the limited liability company, including to delegate to agents, officers and employees of a member or manager of the limited liability company, and to delegate by a management agreement or another agreement with, or otherwise to, other persons. Such persons may be denominated as officers of the limited liability company without being deemed to have the status of a manager, unless designated as a manager in the articles of organization or an operating agreement. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, such delegation by a manager of a limited liability company shall not cause the manager to cease to be a manager of the limited liability company.
I. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, the managers of a limited liability company may take any action permitted or required to be taken by the managers without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by managers having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting. A consent transmitted by a manager by electronic transmission shall be deemed to be signed for the purposes of this section. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, on any matter that is to be voted on by managers, the managers may vote in person or by proxy, and any such proxy may be granted in writing, by means of electronic transmission or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
J. The articles of organization or an operating agreement may provide for classes or groups of managers having such relative rights, powers, and duties as the articles of organization or an operating agreement may provide, and may make provision for the future creation in the manner provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement of additional classes or groups of managers having such relative rights, powers, and duties as may from time to time be established, including rights, powers, and duties senior to existing classes and groups of managers.
1991, c. 168; 1992, c. 574; 1996, c. 265; 1998, c. 432; 2002, c. 288; 2004, c. 601.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 12 - Virginia Limited Liability Company Act
§ 13.1-1001. Reservation of power to amend or repeal
§ 13.1-1003. Filing requirements
§ 13.1-1003.1. Filings with the Commission pursuant to reorganization
§ 13.1-1004. Issuance of certificate by Commission; recordation of documents
§ 13.1-1006. Penalty for signing false documents
§ 13.1-1011. Articles of organization
§ 13.1-1011.1. Articles of correction
§ 13.1-1014. Amendment of articles of organization
§ 13.1-1014.1. Restatement of articles of organization
§ 13.1-1015. Registered office and registered agent
§ 13.1-1016. Change of registered office or registered agent
§ 13.1-1017. Resignation of registered agent
§ 13.1-1018. Service on limited liability company
§ 13.1-1018.1. Change of principal office
§ 13.1-1019. Liability to third parties
§ 13.1-1020. Parties to actions
§ 13.1-1021. Limited liability company property
§ 13.1-1021.1. Agency of members and managers
§ 13.1-1022. Management of limited liability company
§ 13.1-1023. Operating agreement
§ 13.1-1023.1. Remedies for breach of operating agreement by member or manager
§ 13.1-1024. Management of a limited liability company by a manager or managers
§ 13.1-1024.1. General standards of conduct for a manager
§ 13.1-1025. Limitation of liability of members and managers; exception
§ 13.1-1026. Business transactions of members or managers with the limited liability company
§ 13.1-1028. Information and records
§ 13.1-1029. Sharing of profits and losses
§ 13.1-1030. Sharing of distributions
§ 13.1-1031. Interim distributions
§ 13.1-1032. Resignation of member
§ 13.1-1034. Distribution in kind
§ 13.1-1035. Restrictions on making distribution
§ 13.1-1036. Liability upon wrongful distribution
§ 13.1-1037. Right to distribution
§ 13.1-1038. Nature of interest in limited liability company
§ 13.1-1038.1. Admission of members
§ 13.1-1039. Assignment of interest
§ 13.1-1040. Right of assignee to become member
§ 13.1-1040.1. Events causing member's dissociation
§ 13.1-1040.2. Effect of a member's dissociation
§ 13.1-1041.1. Member's transferable interest subject to charging order
§ 13.1-1042. Right of action; standing; condition precedent; stay of proceeding
§ 13.1-1046. Dissolution; generally
§ 13.1-1047. Judicial dissolution
§ 13.1-1047.1. Waiver of cancellation
§ 13.1-1049. Distribution of assets upon dissolution
§ 13.1-1049.1. Known claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 13.1-1049.2. Other claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 13.1-1049.3. Court proceedings
§ 13.1-1050. Articles of cancellation
§ 13.1-1050.2. Automatic cancellation of limited liability company existence
§ 13.1-1050.3. Involuntary cancellation of limited liability company existence
§ 13.1-1050.4. Reinstatement of a limited liability company that has ceased to exist
§ 13.1-1050.5. Survival of remedy after cancellation of existence
§ 13.1-1051. Authority to transact business required; governing law
§ 13.1-1052. Application for certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1054. Name of foreign limited liability company
§ 13.1-1055. Amendments; amended applications for registration
§ 13.1-1056. Voluntary cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.1. Automatic cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.2. Involuntary cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.3. Reinstatement of a certificate of registration that has been canceled
§ 13.1-1057. Transaction of business without registration
§ 13.1-1058. Actions by Attorney General
§ 13.1-1059. Transactions not constituting doing business
§ 13.1-1064. Penalty for failure to timely pay annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1066. Collection of unpaid bills for annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1067. Property title records
§ 13.1-1071. Action on a plan of merger
§ 13.1-1072. Articles of merger
§ 13.1-1073.1. Abandonment of merger
§ 13.1-1076. Action on plan of domestication by a domestic limited liability company
§ 13.1-1077. Articles of domestication
§ 13.1-1078. Surrender of articles of organization upon domestication
§ 13.1-1079. Effect of domestication
§ 13.1-1080. Abandonment of domestication
§ 13.1-1082. Entity conversion
§ 13.1-1083. Plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1084. Action on plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1085. Articles of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1086. Effect of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1087. Abandonment of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1089. Nature of protected series
§ 13.1-1090. Powers and duration of protected series
§ 13.1-1092. Relation of operating agreement, this article, and the other articles of this chapter
§ 13.1-1093. Additional limitations on operating agreement
§ 13.1-1095. Protected series designation; amendment
§ 13.1-1097. Registered office and registered agent
§ 13.1-1098. Service of process, notice, or demand
§ 13.1-1099. Effectiveness of notice
§ 13.1-1099.1. Annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1099.2. Associated assets
§ 13.1-1099.3. Associated members
§ 13.1-1099.4. Protected series membership interests
§ 13.1-1099.7. Limitations on liability
§ 13.1-1099.8. Claim seeking to disregard limitation of liability
§ 13.1-1099.9. Remedies of judgment creditor of associated member or protected series assignee
§ 13.1-1099.10. Enforcement of claim against non-associated asset
§ 13.1-1099.11. Events causing dissolution of protected series
§ 13.1-1099.12. Winding up dissolved protected series; voluntary cancellation
§ 13.1-1099.14. Protected series may not be party to entity transaction
§ 13.1-1099.16. Merger authorized; parties restricted
§ 13.1-1099.17. Plan of merger
§ 13.1-1099.18. Articles of merger
§ 13.1-1099.19. Effect of merger
§ 13.1-1099.20. Application of § 13.1-1099.10 after merger
§ 13.1-1099.25. Uniformity of application and construction
§ 13.1-1099.26. Effect on certain actions
§ 13.1-1099.27. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act