Iowa Code
Chapter 486A - UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT
Section 486A.801 - Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business.

486A.801 Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business.
A partnership is dissolved, and its business must be wound up, only upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
1. In a partnership at will, the partnership’s having notice from a partner, other than a partner who is dissociated under section 486A.601, subsections 2 through 10, of that partner’s express will to withdraw as a partner, or on a later date specified by the partner.
2. In a partnership for a definite term or particular undertaking if any of the following occur or are present:
a. The expiration of ninety days after a partner’s dissociation by death or otherwise under section 486A.601, subsections 6 through 10, or wrongful dissociation under section 486A.602, subsection 2, unless before that time a majority in interest of the remaining partners, including partners who have rightfully dissociated pursuant to section 486A.602, subsection 2, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (1), agree to continue the partnership.
b. The express will of all of the partners to wind up the partnership business.
c. The expiration of the term or the completion of the undertaking.
3. An event agreed to in the partnership agreement resulting in the winding up of the partnership business.
4. An event that makes it unlawful for all or substantially all of the business of the partnership to be continued, but a cure of illegality within ninety days after notice to the partnership of the event is effective retroactively to the date of the event for purposes of this section.
5. On application by a partner, a judicial determination that concludes any of the following:
a. The economic purpose of the partnership is likely to be unreasonably frustrated.
b. Another partner has engaged in conduct relating to the partnership business which makes it not reasonably practicable to carry on the business in partnership with that partner.
c. It is not otherwise reasonably practicable to carry on the partnership business in conformity with the partnership agreement.
6. On application by a transferee of a partner’s transferable interest, a judicial determination that it is equitable to wind up the partnership business at any of the following times:
a. After the expiration of the term or completion of the undertaking, if the partnership was for a definite term or particular undertaking at the time of the transfer or entry of the charging order that gave rise to the transfer.
b. At any time, if the partnership was a partnership at will at the time of the transfer or entry of the charging order that gave rise to the transfer.
98 Acts, ch 1201, §38, 79, 82
Referred to in §486A.103, 486A.405, 486A.503, 486A.701

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