Changes in General Partners. 14.1 General Partner Ceasing to be a General Partner. (A) A General Partner shall cease to be a General Partner of the Partnership only upon the occurrence of any one or more of the following events: (1) The General Partner’s withdrawal from the Partnership; (2) The General Partner’s removal as a General Partner; (3) Effective as provided in (B) below, an order for relief against the General Partner is entered under Chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy law, or the General Partner, (a) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (b) files a voluntary petition under the federal bankruptcy law, (c) files a petition or answer seeking for that General Partner any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute, law, or regulation, (d) files an answer or other pleading admitting or failing to contest the material allegations of a petition filed against that General Partner in any proceeding of this nature, or (e) seeks, consents to, or acquiesces in the appointment of a trustee, receiver, or liquidator of the General Partner or of all or any substantial part of that General Partner’s properties; (4) The death of an individual General Partner; (5) The entry by a court of competent jurisdiction of an order adjudicating an individual General Partner incompetent to manage the General Partner’s person or property; (6) In the case of a General Partner who is acting as a General Partner by virtue of being a trustee of a trust, the termination of the trust (but not merely the substitution of a new trustee); (7) In the case of a General Partner that is a separate partnership, the dissolution and commencement of winding up of the separate partnership; (8) In the case of a General Partner that is a corporation, the filing of a certificate of dissolution, or its equivalent, for the corporation or the revocation of its charter; or (9) In the case of a General Partner that is an estate, the distribution by the fiduciary of the estate’s entire interest in the Partnership. (B) Any event described in Section 14.1(A)(3) shall cause a General Partner to cease to be a General Partner only as provided in this Section 14.1(B). Immediately upon the later of (a) the entering of the order for relief under Chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy law or (b) the final disposition of any appeal by the General Partner from the entering of such an order, and immediately upon the occurrence of any of the other events described in Section 14.1(A)(3), the General Partner shall give notice of the event to the Partners. The General Partner shall cease to be a General Partner one hundred twenty (120) days after such notice is given.
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Sources: Agreement of Limited Partnership (Royal Hawaiian Orchards, L.P.), Agreement of Limited Partnership (Ml Macadamia Orchards L P)