2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations › Chapter 29 - Wyoming Limited Liability Company Act › Article 10 - Merger, Conversion, Continuance, Transfer and Domestication › Section 17-29-1001 - Definitions.

17-29-1001. Definitions.
(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Constituent limited liability company" means a constituent organization that is a limited liability company;
(ii) "Constituent organization" means an organization that is party to a merger;
(iii) "Converted organization" means the organization into which a converting organization converts pursuant to W.S. 17-29-1006;
(iv) "Converting limited liability company" means a converting organization that is a limited liability company;
(v) "Converting organization" means an organization that converts into another organization pursuant to W.S. 17-29-1006;
(vi) "Governing statute" means the statute that governs an organization's internal affairs;
(vii) "Organization" means a general partnership, including a limited liability partnership, limited partnership, including a limited liability limited partnership, limited liability company, business trust, statutory trust, corporation or any other person having a governing statute. The term includes a domestic or foreign organization regardless of whether organized for profit;
(viii) "Organizational documents" means:
(A) For a domestic or foreign general partnership, its partnership agreement;
(B) For a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, its certificate of limited partnership and partnership agreement;
(C) For a domestic or foreign limited liability company, its certificate or articles of organization and operating agreement, or comparable records as provided in its governing statute;
(D) For a business or statutory trust, its agreement of trust, declaration of trust or certificate of trust;
(E) For a domestic or foreign corporation for profit, its articles of incorporation, bylaws and other agreements among its shareholders which are authorized by its governing statute or comparable records as provided in its governing statute; and
(F) For any other organization, the basic records that create the organization and determine its internal governance and the relations among the persons that own it, have an interest in it or are members of it.
(ix) "Personal liability" means liability for a debt, obligation or other liability of an organization which is imposed on a person that co-owns, has an interest in or is a member of the organization:
(A) By the governing statute solely by reason of the person co-owning, having an interest in or being a member of the organization; or
(B) By the organization's organizational documents under a provision of the governing statute authorizing those documents to make one (1) or more specified persons liable for all or specified debts, obligations or other liabilities of the organization solely by reason of the person or persons co-owning, having an interest in or being a member of the organization.
(x) "Surviving organization" means an organization into which one (1) or more other organizations are merged whether the organization preexisted the merger or was created by the merger.