(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the partnership agreement governs relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership. To the extent the partnership agreement does not otherwise provide, this chapter governs relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership.
(b) A partnership agreement may not:
(1) vary a limited partnership's power under section 321.0105 to sue, be sued, and defend in its own name;
(2) vary the law applicable to a limited partnership under section 321.0106;
(3) vary the requirements of section 321.0204;
(4) vary the information required under section 321.0111 or unreasonably restrict the right to information under section 321.0304 or 321.0407, but the partnership agreement may impose reasonable restrictions on the availability and use of information obtained under those sections and may define appropriate remedies, including liquidated damages, for a breach of any reasonable restriction on use;
(5) eliminate the duty of loyalty under section 321.0408, but the partnership agreement may:
(A) identify specific types or categories of activities that do not violate the duty of loyalty, if not manifestly unreasonable; and
(B) specify the number or percentage of partners which may authorize or ratify, after full disclosure to all partners of all material facts, a specific act or transaction that otherwise would violate the duty of loyalty;
(6) unreasonably reduce the duty of care under section 321.0408(c);
(7) eliminate the obligation of good faith and fair dealing under sections 321.0305(b) and 321.0408(d), but the partnership agreement may prescribe the standards by which the performance of the obligation is to be measured, if the standards are not manifestly unreasonable;
(8) vary the power of a person to dissociate as a general partner under section 321.0604(a) except to require that the notice under section 321.0603(1) be in a record;
(9) vary the power of a court to decree dissolution in the circumstances specified in section 321.0802;
(10) vary the requirement to wind up the partnership's business as specified in section 321.0803;
(11) unreasonably restrict the right to maintain an action under article 10;
(12) restrict the right of a partner under section 321.1110(a) to approve a conversion or merger or the right of a general partner under section 321.1110(b) to consent to an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership which deletes a statement that the limited partnership is a limited liability limited partnership; or
(13) restrict rights under this chapter of a person other than a partner or a transferee.
2004 c 199 art 1 s 10
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations
Chapter 321 — Uniform Limited Partnership Act 2001
Section 321.0101 — Short Title.
Section 321.0102 — Definitions.
Section 321.0103 — Knowledge And Notice.
Section 321.0104 — Nature, Purpose, And Duration Of Entity.
Section 321.0106 — Governing Law.
Section 321.0107 — Supplemental Principles Of Law; Rate Of Interest.
Section 321.0109 — Reservation Of Name.
Section 321.0110 — Effect Of Partnership Agreement; Nonwaivable Provisions.
Section 321.0111 — Required Information.
Section 321.0112 — Business Transactions Of Partner With Partnership.
Section 321.0113 — Dual Capacity.
Section 321.0114 — Office And Agent For Service Of Process.
Section 321.0115 — Change Of Designated Office Or Agent For Service Of Process.
Section 321.0116 — Resignation Of Agent For Service Of Process.
Section 321.0117 — Service Of Process.
Section 321.0118 — Consent And Proxies Of Partners.
Section 321.0201 — Formation Of Limited Partnership; Certificate Of Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0202 — Amendment Or Restatement Of Certificate.
Section 321.0203 — Statement Of Termination.
Section 321.0204 — Signing Of Records.
Section 321.0205 — Signing And Filing Pursuant To Judicial Order.
Section 321.0206 — Delivery To And Filing Of Records By Secretary Of State; Effective Time And Date.
Section 321.0207 — Correcting Filed Record.
Section 321.0208 — Liability For False Information In Filed Record.
Section 321.0210 — Annual Renewal For Secretary Of State.
Section 321.0301 — Becoming Limited Partner.
Section 321.0302 — No Right Or Power As Limited Partner To Bind Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0303 — No Liability As Limited Partner For Limited Partnership Obligations.
Section 321.0304 — Right Of Limited Partner And Former Limited Partner To Information.
Section 321.0305 — Limited Duties Of Limited Partners.
Section 321.0306 — Person Erroneously Believing Self To Be Limited Partner.
Section 321.0401 — Becoming General Partner.
Section 321.0402 — General Partner Agent Of Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0403 — Limited Partnership Liable For General Partner's Actionable Conduct.
Section 321.0404 — General Partner's Liability.
Section 321.0405 — Actions By And Against Partnership And Partners.
Section 321.0406 — Management Rights Of General Partner.
Section 321.0407 — Right Of General Partner And Former General Partner To Information.
Section 321.0408 — General Standards Of General Partner's Conduct.
Section 321.0409 — Transfer Of Partnership Property.
Section 321.0501 — Form Of Contribution.
Section 321.0502 — Liability For Contribution.
Section 321.0503 — Sharing Of Distributions.
Section 321.0504 — Interim Distributions.
Section 321.0505 — No Distribution On Account Of Dissociation.
Section 321.0506 — Distribution In Kind.
Section 321.0507 — Right To Distribution.
Section 321.0508 — Limitations On Distribution.
Section 321.0509 — Liability For Improper Distributions.
Section 321.0601 — Dissociation As Limited Partner.
Section 321.0602 — Effect Of Dissociation As Limited Partner.
Section 321.0603 — Dissociation As General Partner.
Section 321.0604 — Person's Power To Dissociate As General Partner; Wrongful Dissociation.
Section 321.0605 — Effect Of Dissociation As General Partner.
Section 321.0607 — Liability To Other Persons Of Person Dissociated As General Partner.
Section 321.0701 — Partner's Transferable Interest.
Section 321.0702 — Transfer Of Partner's Transferable Interest.
Section 321.0703 — Rights Of Creditor Of Partner Or Transferee.
Section 321.0704 — Power Of Estate Of Deceased Partner.
Section 321.0801 — Nonjudicial Dissolution.
Section 321.0802 — Judicial Dissolution.
Section 321.0803 — Winding Up.
Section 321.0806 — Known Claims Against Dissolved Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0807 — Other Claims Against Dissolved Limited Partnerships.
Section 321.0809 — Administrative Dissolution.
Section 321.0810 — Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution Or Revocation.
Section 321.0812 — Disposition Of Assets; When Contributions Required.
Section 321.0901 — Governing Law.
Section 321.0902 — Application For Certificate Of Authority.
Section 321.0903 — Activities Not Constituting Transacting Business.
Section 321.0904 — Filing Of Certificate Of Authority.
Section 321.0905 — Alternate Name; Noncomplying Name Of Foreign Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0906 — Revocation Of Certificate Of Authority.
Section 321.0907 — Cancellation Of Certificate Of Authority; Effect Of Failure To Have Certificate.
Section 321.0908 — Action By Attorney General.
Section 321.0909 — Name Changes Filed In Home State.
Section 321.1001 — Direct Action By Partner.
Section 321.1002 — Derivative Action.
Section 321.1003 — Proper Plaintiff.
Section 321.1005 — Proceeds And Expenses.
Section 321.1101 — Definitions.
Section 321.1102 — Conversion.
Section 321.1103 — Action On Plan Of Conversion By Converting Limited Partnership.
Section 321.1104 — Filings Required For Conversion; Effective Date.
Section 321.1105 — Effect Of Conversion.
Section 321.1107 — Action On Plan Of Merger By Constituent Limited Partnership.
Section 321.1108 — Filings Required For Merger; Effective Date.
Section 321.1109 — Effect Of Merger.
Section 321.1111 — Liability Of General Partner After Conversion Or Merger.
Section 321.1113 — Chapter Not Exclusive.
Section 321.1114 — Conflict Relating To Merger Or Conversion.
Section 321.1115 — Domestication.
Section 321.1116 — Action On Plan Of Domestication By Domesticating Limited Partnership.
Section 321.1117 — Filings Required For Domestication; Effective Date.
Section 321.1118 — Effect Of Domestication.
Section 321.1119 — Restrictions On Approval Of Mergers, Exchanges, Conversions, And Domestications.
Section 321.1201 — Uniformity Of Application And Construction.
Section 321.1202 — Severability Clause.
Section 321.1203 — Relation To Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act.
Section 321.1206 — Application To Existing Relationships.