An Act to provide that the Uniform Limited Partnership Act shall apply in the District of Columbia
PL 87-716 (H.R.11019), enacted 09/28/1962

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Public Law 87-716' 
AN ACT 
September 28, 1962 
To provide that the Uniform Limited Partnership Act shall apply in the District 
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of Columbia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
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United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act to pJ^^nirship^Xct?'* 
provide for the formation of limited partnerships in the District of 
Columbia and to make uniform the law with respect thereto, shall be 
in effect in the District of Columbia on and after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
LIMrrED PARTNERSHIP DEFINED 
SECTION 1. A limited partnership is a partnership formed by two 
or more persons under the provisions of section 2, having as members 
one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. 
The 
limited partners as sucli shall not be bound by the obligations of the 
partnership. 
FORMATION 
SEC. 2, (1) Two or more persons desiring to form a limited partner-
ship shall— 
(a) sign and swear to a certificate, which shall state— 
I. the name of the partnership, 
II. the character of the business, 
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III. the location of the principal place of business, 
IV. the name and place of residence of each member; gen-
eral and limited partners being respectively designated, 
V. the term for which the partnership is to exist, 
VI. the amount of cash and a description of and the agreed 
value of the other property contributed by each limited 
partner, 
VII. the additional contributions, if any, agreed to be 
made by each limited partner and the times at which or events 
on the happening of which they shall be made, 
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VIII. the time, if agreed upon, when the contribution of 
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each limited partner is to be returned, 
IX. the share of the profits or the other compensation by 
way of income which each limited partner shall receive by 
reason of his contribution, 
X. the right, if given, of a limited partner to substitute an 
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assignee as Contibutor in his place, and the terras and con-
ditions of the substitution, 
XI. the right, if given, of the partners to admit additional 
limited partners, 
XII. the right, if given, of one or more of the limited 
partners to priority over other limited partners, as to con-
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tributions or as to compensation by way of income, and the 
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nature of such priority, 
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XIII. the right, if given, of the remaining general partner 
or partners to continue the business on the death, retirement, 
or insanity x)f a general partner, and 
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XIV. the right, if given, of a limited partner to demand 
and receive property other than cash in return for his con-
tribution; 
(b) file for record the certificate in the Office of the Recorder 
of Deeds of the District of Columbia. 
(2) A limited partnership is formed if there has been substantial 
compliance in good faith with the requirements of paragraph (1). 
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BUSINESS WHICH MAY BE CARRIED ON 
SEC. 3. A limited partnership may carry on any business which a 
partnership without limited partners may carry on. 
CHARACTER OF LIMITED PARTNER'S CONTRIBUTION 
SEC. 4. The contributions of a limited partner may be cash or other 
property, but not services. 
A N A M E N O T TO C O N T A I N SURNAME OP LIMITED PARTNER; EXCEPTIONS 
SEC. 5. (1) The surname of a limited partner shall not appear in the 
partnership name, unless— 
'a) it is also the surname of a general partner, or 
^b) prior to the time when the limited partner became such 
the business had been carried on under a name in which his sur-
name appeared. 
(2) A limited partner whose name appears in a partnership name 
contrary to the provisions of paragraph (1) is liable as a general part-
ner to partnership creditors who extend credit to the partnership 
without actual knowledge that he is not a general partner. 
LIABILITY FOR FALSE STATEMENTS IN CERTIFICATE 
SEC. 6. If the certificate contains a false statement, one who suffers 
loss by reliance on such statement may hold liable any party to the 
certificate who knew the statement to be false— 
(a) at the time he signed the certificate, or 
(b) subsequently, but within a sufficient time before the state-
ment was relied upon to enable him to cancel or amend the 
certificate, or to file a petition for its cancellation or amendment 
as provided in section 25 (3). 
LIMITED PARTNER NOT LIABLE TO CREDITORS 
SEC. 7. A limited partner shall not become liable as a general part-
ner unless, in addition to the exercise of his rights and powers as a 
limited partner, he takes part in the control of the business. 
ADMISSION o r ADDITIONAL LIMITED PARTNERS 
SEC. 8. After the formation of a limited partnership, additional 
limited partners may be admitted upon filing an amendment to the 
original certificate in accordance with the requirements of section 25. 
RIGHTS, P O W E R S , AND LIABILITIES OF A GENERAL PARTNER 
SEC. 9. (1) A general partner shall have all the rights and powers 
and be subject to all the restrictions and liabilities of a partner in a 
partnership without limited partners, except that without the written 
consent or ratification of the specific act by all the limited partners, 
a general partner or all of the general partners have no authority to— 
(a) do any act in contravention of the certificate, 
(b) do any act which would make it impossible to carry on the 
ordinary business of the partnership, 
(c) confess a judgment against the partnership, 
(d) possess partnership property, or assign their rights in 
specific partnership property, for other than a partnership 
purpose, 
(e) admit a person as a general partner, 
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(f) admit a person as a limited partner, unless the right so to 
do is given in the certificate, 
(g) continue the business with partnership property on the 
death, retirement, or insanity of a general partner, unless the 
right so to do is given in the certificate. 
RIGHTS OF A LIMITED PARTNER 
SEC. 10. (1) A limited partner shall have the same rights as a general 
partner to— 
(a) have the partnership books kept at a principal place of 
business of the partnership, and at all times to inspect and copy 
any of* them, 
(b) have on demand true and full information of all things 
affecting the partnership, and a formal account of partnership 
affairs whenever circumstances render it just and reasonable, and 
(c) have dissolution and winding up by decree of court. 
(2) A limited partner shall have the right to receive a share of the 
profits or other compensation by way of income, and to the return 
of his contribution as provided in sections 15 and 16. 
STATUS OF PERSON ERRONEOUSLY BELIEVING HIMSELF A LIMITED PARTNER 
SEC. 11. A person who has contributed to the capital of a business 
conducted by a person or partnership erroneously believing that he 
has become a limited partner in a limited partnership is not, by reason 
of this exercise of the rights of a limited partner, a general partner 
with the person or in the partnership carrying on the business, or 
bound by the obligations of such person or partnership: Provided^ 
That on ascertaining the mistake he promptly renounces his interest 
in the profits of the business, or other compensation by way of income. 
ONE PERSON BOTH GENERAL AND LIMITED PARTNER 
SEC. 12. (1) A person may be a general partner and a limited part-
ner in the same partnership at the same time. 
(2) A person who is a general, and also at the same time a limited, 
partner shall have all the rights and powers and be subject to all the 
restrictions of a general partner, except that, in respect to his contri-
bution, he shall have the rights against the other members which he 
would have had if he were not also a general partner. 
LOANS AND OTHER BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS WITH LIMITED PARTNER 
SEC. 13. (1) A limited partnet also may loan money to and transact 
other business with the partnership, and, unless he is also a general 
partner, receive on account of resulting claims against the partnership, 
with general creditors, a pro rata share of the assets. No limited 
partner shall in respect to any such claim— 
(a) receive or hold as collateral security any partnership prop-
ertv, or 
(b) receive from a general partner or the paitnei'ship any pay-
ment, conveyance, or release from liability, if at the time the 
assets of the partnei'ship are not sufficient to discharge partner-
ship liabilities to persons not claiming as general or limited 
partners. 
(2) The receiving of collateral security, or a payment, conveyance, 
or release in violation of the provisions of paragraph (1) is a fraud 
on the creditors of the partnership. 
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RELATION OF LIMITED PARTNERS INTER SE 
SEC. 14. Where there are several limited partners the members may 
agree that one or more of the limited partners shall have a priority 
over other limited partners as to the return of their contributions, as 
to their compensation by way of income, or as to any other matter. 
If such an agreement is made it shall be stated in the certificate, and in 
the absence of such a statement all the limited partners shall stand 
upon equal footing. 
COMPENSATION OF LIMITED PARTNER 
SEC. 15. A limited partner may receive from the partnership the 
share of the profits or the compensation by way of income stipulated 
for in the certificate: Provided^ That after such payment is made, 
whether from the property of the partnership or that of a general 
partner, the partnership assets are in excess of all liabilities of the 
partnership except liabilities to limited partners on account of their 
contributions and to general partners. 
WITHDRAWAL OR REDUCTION OF LIMITED PARTNER'S CONTRIBUTION 
SEC. 16. (1) A limited partner shall not receive from a general 
partner or out of partnership property any part of his contribution 
until— 
(a) all liabilities of the partnership, except liabilities to general 
partners and to limited partners on account of their contributions, 
have been paid or there remains property of the partnership 
sufficient to pay them, 
(b) the consent of all members is had, unless the return of the 
contribution may be rightfully demanded under the provisions of 
paragraph (2), and 
(c) the certificate is canceled or so amended as to set forth the 
withdrawal or reduction. 
(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) a limited partner 
may rightfully demand the return of his contribution-
fa) on the dissolution of a partnership, or 
(b) when the date specified in the certificate for its return has 
arrived, or 
(c) after he has given six months' notice in writing to all other 
members, if no time is specified in the certificate either for the 
return of the contribution or for the dissolution of the partnership. 
(3) In the absence of any statement in the certificate to the contrary 
or the consent of all members, a limited partner, irrespective of the 
nature of his contributionj has only the right to demand and receive 
cash in return for his contribution. 
(4) A limited partner may have the partnership dissolved and its 
affairs wound up when— 
(a) he rightfully but unsuccessfully demands the return of his 
contribution, or 
(b) the other liabilities of the partnership have not been paid, 
or the partnership property is insufficient for their payment as re-
quired by paragraph (la) and the limited partner would other-
wise be entitled to the return of his contribution. 
LIABILITY OF LIMITED PARTNER TO PARTNERSHIP 
SEC. 17. (1) A limited partner is liable to the partnership— 
(a) for the difference between his contribution as actually made 
and that stated in the certificate as having been made, and 
(b) for any unpaid contribution which he agreed in the certifi-
cate to make in the future at the time and on the conditions stated 
in the certificate. 
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(2) A limited partner holds as trustee for the partnership— 
(a) specific property stated in the certificate as contributed by 
him, but which was not contributed or which has been wrongfully 
returned, and 
(b) money or other property wrongfully paid or conveyed to 
him on account of his contribution. 
(3) The liabilities of a limited partner as set forth in this section 
can be waived or compromised only by the consent of all members; but 
a waiver or compromise shall not affect the right of a creditor of a 
partnership, who extended credit or whose claim arose after the filing 
and before a cancellation or amendment of the certificate, to enforce 
such liabilities. 
(4) When a contributor has rightfully received the return in whole 
or in part of the capital of his contribution, he is nevertheless liable 
to the partnership for any sum, not in excess of such return with in--
terest, necessary to discharge its liabilities to all creditors who ex-
tended credit or whose claims arose before such return. 
NATURE OF LIMITED PARTNER'S INTEREST I N PARTNERSHIP 
SEC. 18. A limited partner's interest in the partnership is i)ersonal 
property. 
ASSIGNMENT OF LIMITED PARTNER'S INTEREST 
SEC. 19. (1) A limited partner's interest is assignable. 
(2) A substituted limited partner is a person admitted to all the 
rights of a limited partner who has died or has assigned his interest in 
a partnership. 
(3) An assignee, who does not become a substituted limited partner, 
has no right to require any information or account of the partnership 
transactions or to inspect the partnership books; he is only entitled to 
receive the share of the profits or other compensation by way of income, 
or the return of his contribution, to which his assignor would otherwise 
be entitled. 
(4) An assignee shall have the right to become a substituted limited 
partner if all the members (except the assignor) consent thereto or if 
the assignor, being thereunto empowered by the certificate, gives the 
assignee that right. 
(5) An assignee becomes a substituted limited partner when the 
certificate is appropriately amended in accordance with section 25. 
(6) The substituted limited partner has all the rights and powers, 
and is subject to all the restrictions and liabilities of his assignor, 
except those liabilities of which he was ignorant at the time he became 
a limited partner and which could not be ascertained from the 
certificate. 
(7) The substitution of the assignee as a limited partner does not 
release the assignor from liability to the partnership under sections 
6 and 17. 
EFFECT OF RETIREMENT, DEATH, OR INSANITY OF A GENERAL PARTNER 
SEC. 20. The retirement, death, or insanity of a general partner 
dissolves the partnership, unless the business is continued by the 
remaining general partners— 
(a) under a right so to do stated in the certificate, or 
(b) with the consent of all members. 
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DKATH OF LIMITED PARTNER 
SEC. 21. (1) On the death of a limited partner his executor or 
administrator shall have all the rights of a limited partner for the 
purpose of settling his estate, and such power as the deceased had to 
constitute his assignee a substituted limited partner. 
(2) The estate of a deceased limited partner shall be liable for all 
his liabilities as a limited partner. 
RIGHTS OF CREDITORS OF LIMITED PARTNER 
SEC. 22. (1) On due application to a court of competent jurisdiction 
by any judgment creditor of a limited partner, the court may charge 
the interest of the indebted limited partner with payment of the 
unsatisfied amount of the judgment debt; and may appoint a receiver, 
and make all other orders, directions, and inquiries which the circum-
stances of the case may require. 
(2) The interest may be redeemed with the separate property of any 
general partner, but may not be redeemed with partnership property. 
(3) Tne remedies conferred by paragraph (1) shall not be deemed 
exclusive of others which may exist. 
(4) Nothing in this Act shall be held to deprive a limited partner 
of his statutory exemption. 
DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS 
SEC. 23. (1) In settling accounts after dissolution the liabilities of 
the partnership shall be entitled to payment in the following order: 
(a) Those to creditors, in the order of priority as j)rovided by 
law, except those to limited partners on account of their contribu-
tions, and to general partners. 
(b) Those to limited partners in respect to their share of the 
profits and other compensation by way of income on their 
contributions. 
(c) Those to limited partners in respect to the capital of their 
contributions. 
(d) Those to general partners other than for capital and 
profits. 
(e) Those to general partners in respect to profits. 
(f) Those to general partners in respect to capital. 
(2) Subject to any statement in the certificate or to subsequent 
agreement, limited partners share in the partnership assets in respect 
to their claims for capital, and in respect to their claims for profits or 
for compensation by way of income on their contributions respectively, 
in proportion to the respective amounts of such claims. 
W H E N CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CANCELED 0|t AMENDED 
SEC. 24. (1) The certificate shall be canceled when the partnership 
is dissolved or all limited partners cease to be such. 
(2) A certificate shall be amended when— 
(a) there is a change in the name of the partnership or in the 
amount or character of the contribution of any limited partner, 
(b) a person is substituted as a limited partner, 
(c) an additional limited partner is admitted, 
(d) a person is admitted as a general partner, 
(e) a general partner retires, dies, or becomes insane, and the 
business is continued under section 20, 
(f) there is a change in the character of the business of the 
partnership, 
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(g) there is a false or erroneous statement in the certificate, 
(h) there is a change in the time as stated in the certificate for 
the dissolution of the partnership or for the return of a contribu-
tion, 
(i) a time is fixed for the dissolution of the partnership, or the 
return of a contribution, no time having been specified in the 
certificate, or 
(j) the members desire to make a change in any other statement 
in the certificate in order that it shall accurately represent the 
agreement between them. 
ItEQUIREMENTS FOR AMENDMENT AND FOR CANCELX,ATI0N OF CERTIFICATE 
SEC. 25. (1) The writing to amend a certificate shall— 
(a) conform to the requirements of section 2(1) (a) as far as 
necessary to set forth clearly the change in the certificate which 
it is desired to make, and 
(b) be signed and sworn to by all members, and an amendment 
substituting a limited partner or adding a limited or general part-
ner shall be signed also by the member to be substituted or added, 
and when a limited partner is to be substituted, the amendment 
shall also be signed by the assigning limited partner. 
(2) The writing to cancel a certificate shall be signed by all members. 
(3) A person desiring the cancellation or amendment of a certificate, 
if any person designated in paragraphs (1) and (2) as a person who 
must execute the writing refuses to do so, may petition the United 
States District Court for the District of Columbia to direct a cancella-
t ion or amendment thereof. 
(4) If the court finds that the petitioner has a right to have the writ-
ing executed by a person who refuses to do so, it shall order the 
Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia where the certificate is 
recorded to record the cancellation or amendment of the certificate; 
and where the certificate is to be amended, the court shall also cause 
to be filed for record in said office a certified copy of its decree setting 
forth the amendment. 
(5) A certificate is amended or canceled when there is filed for 
record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Colum-
bia where the certificate is recorded— 
(a) a writing in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 
(1) or (2),or 
(b) a certified copy of the order of court in accordance with the 
provisions of paragraph (4). 
(6) After the certificate is duly amended in accordance with this 
section, the amended certificate shall thereafter be for all purposes the 
t-ertificate provided for by this Act. 
PARTIES TO A C T I O N S 
SEC. 26. A contributor, unless he is a general partner, is not a proper 
party to proceedings by or against a partnership, except where the 
object is to enforce a limited partner's right against or liability to the 
l)artnership. 
NAME OF zVCT 
SEC. 27. This Act may be cited as the "Uniform Limited Partnership 
.Act • 
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RULES OF 
CONSTRUCTION 
SEC. 28. (1) The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law 
are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this Act. 
(2) This Act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its 
general purpose to make uniform the law of those States which enact it. 
(3) This Act shall not be so construed as to impair the obligations 
of any contract existing when the Act goes into effect, nor to affect any 
action on proceedings begun or right accrued before this Act takes 
effect. 
RULES FOR CASES NOT PROVIDED FOR I N THIS ACT 
SEC. 29. Iii any case not provided for in this Act the rules of law and 
equity, including the law merchant, shall govern. 
PROVISIONS FOR EXISTING LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS 
31 Stat. 1189. 
SEC. 30. (1) A limited partnership formed under the Act approved 
March 3, 1901, as amended, prior to the adoption of this Act, may 
become a limited partnership under this Act by complying with the 
provisions of section 2: Provided^ That the certificate sets forth— 
(a) the amount of the original contribution of each limited 
partner, and the time when the contribution was made, and 
(b) that the property of the partnership exceeds the amount 
sufficient to discharge its liabilities to persons not claiming as 
. general or limited partners by an amount greater than the sum 
of the contributions of its limited partners. 
(2) A limited partnership formed under the Act approved March 
3, 1901, as amended, prior to the adoption of this Act, until of unless 
it becomes a limited partnership und:er this Act, shall continue to be 
governed by the provisions of Thirty-fii-st Statutes at Large, page 
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1415, chapter 854, sections 1498-1506, 1508, 1510-1528, as amended, 
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except that such partnership shall not be renewed unless so provided 
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in the original agreement. 
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REPEAL 
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SEC. 31. Except as affecting existing limited partnerships to the 
extent set forth in section 30, Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page 
1415, chapter 854, sections 1498-1506, 1508, 1510-1528, as amended, 
is hereby repealed. 
Approved September 28, 1962. 
Public Law 87-717 
September28, 1962 
A N 
A C T 
[H. R. 7796] 
'p,) amend certain lending limitations on real estate and construction loans 
applicable to national banks. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
National banks. United States of America in Congress assembled,. That the fourth 
consmictionlo^l, sentence of the first paragraph of section 24 of the Federal Keserve 
lending iimita- 
' Act (12 U.S.C. 371) is amended to read as follows: "No such associa-
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t^o^ shall make such loans in an aggregate sum in excess of the amount 
of the capital stock of such association paid in and unimpaired plus 
the amount of its unimpaired surplus fund, or in excess of 70 per 
centum of the amount of its time and savings deposits, whichever is 
the greater."