179.0103 Knowledge; notice.
(1) A person knows a fact if any of the following applies:
(a) The person has actual knowledge of the fact.
(b) The person is deemed to know the fact under law other than this chapter.
(c) The person is deemed to know the fact under sub. (4) (cr).
(2) A person has notice of a fact if any of the following applies:
(a) The person has reason to know the fact from all the facts known to the person at the time in question.
(b) The person is deemed to have notice of the fact under sub. (3) or (4).
(3) A certificate of limited partnership on file in the office of the department is notice that the partnership is a limited partnership and the persons designated in the certificate as general partners are general partners. Except as otherwise provided in sub. (4), the certificate is not notice of any other fact.
(4)
(a) A person not a partner is deemed to have notice of another person's dissociation as a general partner 90 days after an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership that states that the other person has dissociated becomes effective or 90 days after a statement of dissociation pertaining to the other person becomes effective, whichever occurs first.
(b) A person not a partner is deemed to have notice of all of the following as follows:
1. A limited partnership's dissolution 90 days after an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership stating that the limited partnership is dissolved becomes effective.
2. A limited partnership's termination 90 days after a statement of termination under s. 179.0802 (2) (b) 6. becomes effective.
3. A limited partnership's participation in a merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication, 90 days after the articles of merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication under subch. XI become effective.
(cr) A person not a partner is deemed to know of a limitation on authority to transfer real property as provided in s. 179.04023 (7).
(5) Subject to s. 179.0210 (6), a person notifies another person of a fact by taking steps reasonably required to inform the other person in ordinary course, whether or not those steps cause the other person to know the fact.
(6) Except for a transferor partner's notice or knowledge of the transfer under s. 179.0702 (5) or a withdrawing partner's notice or knowledge of the withdrawal under s. 179.0601 (2) (a) or 179.0603 (1), a general partner's knowledge or notice of a fact relating to the limited partnership is effective immediately as knowledge of or notice to the partnership, except in the case of a fraud on the partnership committed by or with the consent of the general partner. A limited partner's knowledge or notice of a fact relating to the partnership is not effective as knowledge of or notice to the partnership.
(7m) This subsection applies to notice that is required under this chapter and that is made subject to this subsection by express reference to this subsection. Written notice is effective at the earliest of the following:
(a) When received.
(b) Five days after its deposit in the U.S. mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
(c) On the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee.
(d) For notices from the department, upon successful transmission by e-mail as provided in this chapter.
History: 2021 a. 258.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 179 - Uniform limited partnership law.
179.0105 - Partnership agreement; scope, function, and limitations.
179.0108 - Required information.
179.0110 - Nature, purpose, and duration of limited partnership.
179.0113 - Supplemental principles of law.
179.0115 - Reservation of name.
179.0116 - Registration of name.
179.0117 - Registered agent and registered office.
179.0118 - Change of registered agent or registered office by limited partnership.
179.0119 - Resignation of registered agent.
179.0120 - Change of name or address by registered agent.
179.0121 - Service of process, notice, or demand.
179.0122 - Delivery of record.
179.0124 - Filing fees; certified copies.
179.0201 - Formation of limited partnership; certificate of limited partnership.
179.0202 - Amendment or restatement of certificate of limited partnership.
179.0203 - Signing of records to be delivered for filing to the department.
179.0204 - Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order.
179.0205 - Liability for inaccurate information in filed record.
179.0206 - Filing requirements.
179.0207 - Effective date and time.
179.0208 - Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness.
179.0209 - Correcting filed record.
179.0210 - Duty of department to file; review of refusal to file; delivery of record by department.
179.0211 - Certificate of status.
179.0212 - Annual report for department.
179.0301 - Becoming limited partner.
179.0302 - No agency power of limited partner as limited partner.
179.0303 - No liability as limited partner for limited partnership obligations.
179.0304 - Rights to information of limited partner and person dissociated as limited partner.
179.0305 - Limited duties of limited partners.
179.0306 - Person erroneously believing self to be limited partner.
179.0401 - Becoming general partner.
179.0402 - General partner agent of limited partnership.
179.04023 - Statement of partnership authority.
179.04025 - Statement of denial.
179.0403 - Limited partnership liable for general partner's actionable conduct.
179.0404 - General partner's liability.
179.0405 - Actions against partnership and partners.
179.0406 - Management rights of general partner.
179.0407 - Rights to information of general partner and person dissociated as general partner.
179.0408 - Reimbursement; indemnification; advancement; and insurance.
179.0409 - Standards of conduct for general partners.
179.0501 - Form of contribution.
179.0502 - Liability for contribution.
179.0503 - Sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution.
179.0504 - Limitations on distributions.
179.0505 - Liability for improper distributions.
179.0601 - Dissociation as limited partner.
179.0602 - Effect of dissociation as limited partner.
179.0603 - Dissociation as general partner.
179.0604 - Power to dissociate as general partner; wrongful dissociation.
179.0605 - Effect of dissociation as general partner.
179.0606 - Power to bind and liability of person dissociated as general partner.
179.0607 - Liability of person dissociated as general partner to other persons.
179.0701 - Nature of transferable interest.
179.0702 - Transfer of transferable interest.
179.0704 - Power of legal representative of deceased partner.
179.0801 - Events causing dissolution.
179.0803 - Rescinding dissolution.
179.0804 - Power to bind partnership after dissolution.
179.0805 - Liability after dissolution of general partner and person dissociated as general partner.
179.0806 - Known claims against dissolved limited partnership.
179.0807 - Claims against dissolved limited partnership generally.
179.0810 - Disposition of assets in winding up; when contributions required.
179.0811 - Administrative dissolution.
179.0813 - Appeal from denial of reinstatement.
179.0901 - Direct action by partner.
179.0905 - Special litigation committee.
179.0906 - Proceeds and expenses.
179.1002 - Registration to do business in this state.
179.1003 - Foreign registration statement.
179.1004 - Amendment of foreign registration statement.
179.1005 - Activities not constituting doing business.
179.1006 - Noncomplying name of foreign limited partnership.
179.1009 - Transfer of registration.
179.10101 - Grounds for termination.
179.10102 - Procedure for and effect of termination.
179.10103 - Appeal from termination.
179.1011 - Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign limited partnership.
179.1012 - Action by attorney general.
179.1102 - Relationship of subchapter to other laws.
179.1105 - Reference to external facts.
179.1123 - Approval of merger; amendment; abandonment.
179.1124 - Filings required for merger; effective date.
179.1131 - Interest exchange authorized.
179.1132 - Plan of interest exchange.
179.1133 - Approval of interest exchange; amendment; abandonment.
179.1134 - Filings required for interest exchange; effective date.
179.1135 - Effect of interest exchange.
179.1141 - Conversion authorized.
179.1142 - Plan of conversion.
179.1143 - Approval of conversion; amendment; abandonment.
179.1144 - Filings required for conversion; effective date.
179.1145 - Effect of conversion.
179.1151 - Domestication authorized.
179.1152 - Plan of domestication.
179.1153 - Approval of domestication; amendment; abandonment.
179.1154 - Filings required for domestication; effective date.
179.1155 - Effect of domestication.
179.1161 - Restrictions on approval of mergers, interest exchanges, conversions, and domestications.
179.1201 - Uniformity of application and construction.
179.1202 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.