§ 4101. Events causing dissolution and winding up of company business
(a) A limited liability company is dissolved, and its business shall be wound up, upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
(1) an event or circumstance that the operating agreement states causes dissolution;
(2) consent of the number or percentage of members specified in the operating agreement, or in the absence of a provision governing approval of a dissolution or winding up of the company contained in an operating agreement, the consent of all the members;
(3) the passage of 90 consecutive days during which the company has no members;
(4) on application by a member, the entry by the Superior Court of an order dissolving the company on the grounds that:
(A) the conduct of all or substantially all of the company’s activities is unlawful; or
(B) it is not reasonably practicable to carry on the company’s activities in conformance with the certificate of organization and the operating agreement; or
(5) on application by a member, the entry by the Superior Court of an order dissolving the company on the grounds that the managers or those members in control of the company:
(A) have acted, are acting, or will act in a manner that is illegal or fraudulent; or
(B) have acted or are acting in a manner that is oppressive and was, is, or will be directly harmful to the applicant.
(b) In an action brought under subdivision (a)(5) of this section, the Court may order a remedy other than dissolution. (Added 2015, No. 17, § 2.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 11 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
Chapter 25 - Limited Liability Companies
§ 4003. Effect of operating agreement; nonwaivable provisions
§ 4004. Supplemental principles of law
§ 4007. Designated office and agent
§ 4008. Change of designated office or agent for service of process
§ 4009. Resignation of agent for service of process
§ 4011. Nature of business and powers; governing law
§ 4021. Limited liability company as legal entity
§ 4023. Articles of organization
§ 4024. Amendment or restatement of articles of organization
§ 4026. Filing in Office of Secretary of State
§ 4027. Correcting filed document
§ 4028. Certificate of existence or authorization
§ 4029. Liability for false statement in filed document
§ 4030. Filing by judicial act
§ 4031. Limited liability company property
§ 4032. When property is limited liability company property
§ 4033. Annual report for Secretary of State
§ 4034. Involuntary termination
§ 4041. No agency power of member as member
§ 4042. Liability of members and managers
§ 4053. Member’s liability for contributions
§ 4054. Management of limited liability company
§ 4055. Sharing of profits and losses and right to distributions
§ 4056. Limitations on distributions
§ 4057. Liability for unlawful distributions
§ 4059. General standards of member’s and manager’s conduct
§ 4060. Reimbursement, indemnification, and insurance
§ 4071. Member’s distributional interest
§ 4072. Transfer of distributional interest
§ 4075. Power of estate of deceased member
§ 4081. Events causing member’s dissociation
§ 4082. Member’s power to dissociate; wrongful dissociation
§ 4083. Effect of member’s dissociation
§ 4101. Events causing dissolution and winding up of company business
§ 4102. Limited liability company continues after dissolution
§ 4103. Right to wind up limited liability company’s business
§ 4104. Member’s or manager’s power and liability as agent after dissolution
§ 4105. Articles of termination
§ 4106. Distribution of assets in winding up limited liability company’s business
§ 4107. Known claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 4108. Other claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 4109. Enforcement of claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 4111. Law governing foreign limited liability companies
§ 4112. Application for certificate of authority
§ 4113. Activities not constituting transacting business
§ 4114. Issuance of certificate of authority
§ 4115. Amended certificate of authority
§ 4116. Name of foreign limited liability company
§ 4117. Revocation of certificate of authority
§ 4118. Cancellation of authority
§ 4119. Effect of failure to obtain certificate of authority
§ 4120. Action by Attorney General
§ 4122. Designation of controlling foreign law
§ 4123. Scope of designated foreign law
§ 4131. Direct action by member
§ 4135. Special litigation committee
§ 4144. Approval of conversion
§ 4145. Amendment or abandonment of plan of conversion
§ 4146. Statement of conversion; effective date of conversion
§ 4149. Action on plan of merger by constituent limited liability company
§ 4150. Filings required for merger; effective date
§ 4153. Action on plan of domestication by domesticating limited liability company
§ 4154. Filings required for domestication; effective date
§ 4155. Effect of domestication
§ 4156. Restrictions on approval of mergers, conversions, and domestications
§ 4157. Subchapter not exclusive
§ 4163. Failure to meet requirements
§ 4173. Authority; requirements
§ 4174. Multiple roles of members and managers
§ 4175. Consensus formation algorithms and governance processes