(a) General rule.--If a document delivered to the department for filing under this title and filed by the department contains a materially false statement or fails to state a material fact required to be stated, a person that suffers loss by reasonable reliance on the statement or failure to state a material fact may recover damages for the loss from:
(1) a person that signed the document or caused another to sign it on the person's behalf and knew there was false or missing information in the document at the time it was signed; and
(2) subject to subsection (b), a member of a member-managed limited liability company or a manager of a manager-managed limited liability company if:
(i) the document was delivered for filing on behalf of the company; and
(ii) the member or manager knew or had notice there was false or missing information for a reasonably sufficient time before the document was relied upon so that, before the reliance, the member or manager reasonably could have:
(A) effected an amendment under section 8822 (relating to amendment or restatement of certificate of organization);
(B) filed a petition under section 144 (relating to signing and filing pursuant to judicial order); or
(C) delivered to the department for filing a statement of correction under section 138 (relating to statement of correction) or a statement of withdrawal under section 141 (relating to abandonment of filing before effectiveness).
(b) Substitute responsibility.--To the extent the operating agreement of a member-managed limited liability company expressly relieves a member of responsibility for maintaining the accuracy of information contained in documents delivered on behalf of the company to the department for filing under this chapter and imposes that responsibility on one or more other members, the liability stated under subsection (a)(2) applies to those other members and not to the member that the operating agreement relieves of the responsibility.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 88 - Limited Liability Companies
Section 8811 - Short title and application of chapter
Section 8813 - Knowledge and notice
Section 8815 - Contents of operating agreement
Section 8816 - Application of operating agreement
Section 8817 - Amendment and effect of operating agreement
Section 8818 - Characteristics of limited liability company
Section 8821 - Formation of limited liability company and certificate of organization
Section 8822 - Amendment or restatement of certificate of organization
Section 8823 - Signing of filed documents
Section 8825 - Registered office
Section 8831 - Status of member or manager as agent
Section 8832 - Certificate of authority
Section 8833 - Certificate of denial
Section 8834 - Liability of members and managers
Section 8835 - Taxation of limited liability companies
Section 8841 - Becoming a member
Section 8842 - Form of contribution
Section 8843 - Liability for contributions
Section 8844 - Sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution
Section 8845 - Limitations on distributions
Section 8846 - Liability for improper distributions
Section 8847 - Management of limited liability company
Section 8848 - Reimbursement, indemnification, advancement and insurance
Section 8849.1 - Standards of conduct for members
Section 8849.2 - Standards of conduct for managers
Section 8850 - Rights to information
Section 8851 - Nature of transferable interest
Section 8852 - Transfer of transferable interest
Section 8854 - Power of personal representative of deceased member
Section 8861 - Events causing dissociation
Section 8862 - Power to dissociate and wrongful dissociation
Section 8863 - Effects of dissociation
Section 8871 - Events causing dissolution
Section 8872 - Winding up and filing of certificates
Section 8874 - Known claims against dissolved limited liability company
Section 8875 - Other claims against dissolved limited liability company
Section 8876 - Court proceedings
Section 8877 - Disposition of assets in winding up
Section 8878 - Voluntary termination by members or organizers
Section 8881 - Direct action by member
Section 8882 - Derivative action
Section 8883 - Eligible plaintiffs and security for costs
Section 8884 - Special litigation committee
Section 8885 - Proceeds and expenses
Section 8891 - Application and effect of subchapter
Section 8893 - Benefit company status
Section 8895 - Standard of conduct for members
Section 8896 - Standard of conduct for managers and officers