Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 88 - Limited Liability Companies
Section 8817 - Amendment and effect of operating agreement

(a) Approval of amendments.--An operating 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. See section 8847(b)(6) and (c)(3)(iii) (relating to management of limited liability company).
(b) Obligations to nonmembers.--The obligations of a limited liability company and its members to a person in the person's capacity as a transferee or a person dissociated as a member are governed by the operating agreement. Except as provided in section 8844(d) (relating to sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution) or in a court order issued under section 8853(b)(2) (relating to charging order) to effectuate a charging order, an amendment to the operating agreement made after a person becomes a transferee or is dissociated as a member:
(1) is effective with regard to any debt, obligation or other liability of the limited liability company or its members to the person in the person's capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a member; and
(2) is not effective to the extent the amendment imposes a new debt, obligation or other liability on the transferee or person dissociated as a member.
(c) Provisions in filed documents.--If a document delivered by a limited liability company to the department for filing contains a provision that would be ineffective under section 8815(c) or (d)(3) (relating to contents of operating agreement) if contained in the operating agreement, the provision is ineffective in the document.
(d) Conflicts with operating agreement.--Subject to subsection (c):
(1) If a provision of the certificate of organization conflicts with a provision of the operating agreement, the provision of the certificate prevails.
(2) If a document other than its certificate of organization has been delivered by the company to the department for filing and conflicts with a provision of the operating agreement:
(i) the operating agreement prevails as to members, dissociated members, transferees and managers; and
(ii) the document prevails as to other persons to the extent they reasonably rely on the document.
(e) Prohibition of oral amendments.--If a provision of an operating agreement in record form provides that the operating agreement cannot be amended, modified or rescinded except in record form, an oral agreement, amendment, modification or rescission shall not be enforceable.

Cross References. Section 8817 is referred to in section 8815 of this title.

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