A member is dissociated from a limited liability company upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
(1) the company's having notice of the member's express will to withdraw upon the date of notice or on a later date specified by the member;
(2) an event agreed to in the operating agreement as causing the member's dissociation;
(3) upon transfer of all of a member's distributional interest, other than a transfer for security purposes or a court order charging the member's distributional interest which has not been foreclosed;
(4) the member's expulsion pursuant to the operating agreement;
(5) the member's expulsion by unanimous vote of the other members if:
(i) it is unlawful to carry on the company's business with the member;
(ii) there has been a transfer of substantially all of the member's distributional interest, other than a transfer for security purposes or a court order charging the member's distributional interest which has not been foreclosed;
(iii) within ninety days after the company notifies a corporate member that it will be expelled because it has filed a certificate of dissolution or the equivalent, its charter has been revoked, or its right to conduct business has been suspended by the jurisdiction of its incorporation, the member fails to obtain a revocation of the certificate of dissolution or a reinstatement of its charter or its right to conduct business; or
(iv) a partnership or a limited liability company that is a member has been dissolved and its business is being wound up;
(6) on application by the company or another member, the member's expulsion by judicial determination because the member:
(i) engaged in wrongful conduct that adversely and materially affected the company's business;
(ii) wilfully or persistently committed a material breach of the operating agreement or of a duty owed to the company or the other members under Section 33-44-409; or
(iii) engaged in conduct relating to the company's business which makes it not reasonably practicable to carry on the business with the member;
(7) the member's:
(i) becoming a debtor in bankruptcy;
(ii) executing an assignment for the benefit of creditors;
(iii) seeking, consenting to, or acquiescing in the appointment of a trustee, receiver, or liquidator of the member or of all or substantially all of the member's property; or
(iv) failing, within ninety days after the appointment, to have vacated or stayed the appointment of a trustee, receiver, or liquidator of the member or of all or substantially all of the member's property obtained without the member's consent or acquiescence, or failing within ninety days after the expiration of a stay to have the appointment vacated;
(8) in the case of a member who is an individual:
(i) the member's death;
(ii) the appointment of a guardian or general conservator for the member; or
(iii) a judicial determination that the member has otherwise become incapable of performing the member's duties under the operating agreement;
(9) in the case of a member that is a trust or is acting as a member by virtue of being a trustee of a trust, distribution of the trust's entire rights to receive distributions from the company, but not merely by reason of the substitution of a successor trustee;
(10) in the case of a member that is an estate or is acting as a member by virtue of being a personal representative of an estate, distribution of the estate's entire rights to receive distributions from the company, but not merely the substitution of a successor personal representative; or
(11) termination of the existence of a member if the member is not an individual, estate, or trust other than a business trust.
HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 343, Section 2.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
Chapter 44 - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act Of 1996
Section 33-44-101. Definitions.
Section 33-44-102. Knowledge and notice.
Section 33-44-103. Effect of operating agreement; nonwaivable provisions.
Section 33-44-104. Supplemental principles of law.
Section 33-44-106. Reserved name.
Section 33-44-107. Registered name.
Section 33-44-108. Designated office and agent for service of process.
Section 33-44-109. Change of designated office or agent for service of process.
Section 33-44-110. Resignation of agent for service of process.
Section 33-44-111. Service of process.
Section 33-44-112. Nature of business and powers.
Section 33-44-201. Limited liability company as legal entity.
Section 33-44-202. Organization.
Section 33-44-203. Articles of organization.
Section 33-44-204. Amendment or restatement of articles of organization.
Section 33-44-205. Signing of records.
Section 33-44-206. Filing in Office of Secretary of State.
Section 33-44-207. Correcting filed record.
Section 33-44-208. Certificate of existence or authorization.
Section 33-44-209. Liability for false statement in filed record.
Section 33-44-210. Filing by judicial act.
Section 33-44-301. Agency of members and managers.
Section 33-44-302. Limited liability company liable for member's or manager's actionable conduct.
Section 33-44-303. Liability of members and managers.
Section 33-44-401. Form of contribution.
Section 33-44-402. Member's liability for contributions.
Section 33-44-403. Member's and manager's rights to payments and reimbursement.
Section 33-44-404. Management of limited liability company.
Section 33-44-405. Sharing of and right to distributions.
Section 33-44-406. Limitations on distributions.
Section 33-44-407. Liability for unlawful distributions.
Section 33-44-408. Member's right to information.
Section 33-44-409. General standards of member's and manager's conduct.
Section 33-44-410. Actions by members.
Section 33-44-411. Continuation of term company after expiration of specified term.
Section 33-44-501. Member's distributional interest.
Section 33-44-502. Transfer of distributional interest.
Section 33-44-503. Rights of transferee.
Section 33-44-504. Rights of creditor.
Section 33-44-601. Events causing member's dissociation.
Section 33-44-602. Member's power to dissociate; wrongful dissociation.
Section 33-44-603. Effect of member's dissociation.
Section 33-44-701. Company purchase of distributional interest.
Section 33-44-702. Court action to determine fair value of distributional interest.
Section 33-44-703. Dissociated member's power to bind limited liability company.
Section 33-44-704. Statement of dissociation.
Section 33-44-801. Events causing dissolution and winding up of company's business.
Section 33-44-802. Limited liability company continues after dissolution.
Section 33-44-803. Right to wind up limited liability company's business.
Section 33-44-804. Member's or manager's power and liability as agent after dissolution.
Section 33-44-805. Articles of termination.
Section 33-44-806. Distribution of assets in winding up limited liability company's business.
Section 33-44-807. Known claims against dissolved limited liability company.
Section 33-44-808. Other claims against dissolved limited liability company.
Section 33-44-809. Grounds for administrative dissolution.
Section 33-44-810. Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution.
Section 33-44-811. Reinstatement following administrative dissolution.
Section 33-44-812. Appeal from denial of reinstatement.
Section 33-44-901. Definitions.
Section 33-44-902. Conversion of partnership or limited partnership to limited liability company.
Section 33-44-903. Effect of conversion on entity; filing name change on title to real property.
Section 33-44-904. Merger of entities.
Section 33-44-905. Articles of merger.
Section 33-44-906. Effect of merger.
Section 33-44-907. Article not exclusive.
Section 33-44-911. When conversion takes effect; notice of name change as to real property.
Section 33-44-913. When conversion takes effect; notice of name change as to real property.
Section 33-44-914. Conversion under other law.
Section 33-44-1001. Law governing foreign limited liability companies.
Section 33-44-1002. Application for certificate of authority.
Section 33-44-1003. Activities not constituting transacting business.
Section 33-44-1004. Issuance of certificate of authority.
Section 33-44-1005. Name of foreign limited liability company.
Section 33-44-1006. Revocation of certificate of authority.
Section 33-44-1007. Cancellation of authority.
Section 33-44-1008. Effect of failure to obtain certificate of authority.
Section 33-44-1009. Action by Attorney General.
Section 33-44-1101. Right of action.
Section 33-44-1102. Proper plaintiff.
Section 33-44-1201. Uniformity of application and construction.
Section 33-44-1202. Short title.
Section 33-44-1203. Severability clause.
Section 33-44-1205. Term partnership includes limited liability company.
Section 33-44-1206. Transitional provisions.