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EXHIBIT 99.3
AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
OF
PERFORMANCE ASSET MANAGEMENT FUND III, LTD.,
A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
THIS AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ("Agreement") is made and entered into as
of this 1st day of September 1992, by and among Performance Development, Inc., a
California corporation ("General Partner"), and the persons accepted by the
General Partners as Limited Partners and who shall sign and submit to the
General Partner a signature page to this Agreement upon their subscriptions for
Units.
1. FORMATION AND BUSINESS OF THE PARTNERSHIP.
1.1 PARTNERSHIP FORMATION. The parties hereby enter into a limited
partnership formed pursuant to the provisions of the Revised Limited Partnership
Act of the State of California, as enacted and in effect on or after June 1,
1986 ("Act"); and the rights and liabilities of the Partners shall be as
provided in the Act and as herein expressly provided. Upon the request of the
General Partner, the Limited Partners shall execute promptly all certificates
and other documents necessary for the General Partner to accomplish all filings,
recordings, publishing and other acts required for the operation of the
Partnership pursuant to the provisions of the laws of California.
1.2 PARTNERSHIP BUSINESS. The purpose and activity of the Partnership
shall be to acquire assets from federal and state banking and savings and loan
agencies, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC"), the Resolution
Trust Corporation ("RTC") and various other sources in order to derive income
from managing, servicing, operating or selling those assets or collecting monies
due and payable from those assets.
1.3 CERTIFICATE OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. The General Partner shall cause a
Certificate of Limited Partnership to be filed in the office of the Secretary of
State of California and a certified copy thereof, or a legally acceptable
substitute therefor, to be filed in each California county in which the
Partnership owns or contemplates owning real property or any interest in real
property.
1.4 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT. The General Partner shall execute
and cause to be filed and published a Fictitious Business Name Statement in
accordance with applicable California law.
1.5 FURTHER ASSURANCES. The parties hereto will execute such other
certificates and documents, and the General Partner will file, record and
publish such other certificates and documents, as may be necessary or
appropriate to comply with the requirements of applicable laws governing the
formation and operation of a limited partnership (or a partnership in which
special partners have limited liability) in all jurisdictions where the
Partnership desires to conduct business.
1.6 NATURE OF PARTNERS' INTERESTS. The interests of the Partners in the
Partnership shall be personal property for all purposes. All property owned by
the Partnership, whether real or personal, tangible or intangible, shall be
deemed to be owned by the Partnership as an entity, and no Partner, as an
individual, shall have an ownership interest in such property.
1.7 TITLE TO PROPERTY. Title to property and any other assets acquired by
the Partnership and any other property acquired to effect the purposes of the
Partnership shall be held solely in the name of the Partnership. The General
Partner shall execute, file and record such documents as may be necessary or
appropriate to specify the Partnership's ownership of such property and assets
in such public offices in such states as may be required. The Partners agree
Partnership property is not and will not be suitable for partition. Accordingly,
each of the Partners hereby irrevocably waives any and all rights that Partner
may have to maintain an action for partition of any Partnership property.
2. NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF PARTNERS.
2.1 PARTNERSHIP. The business of the Partnership shall be conducted using
the name of "Performance Asset Management Fund III, Ltd., A California Limited
Partnership," at the following address: 695 Town
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2.2 GENERAL PARTNER. The name, address and telephone number of the General
Partner are as follows:
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2.3 LIMITED PARTNERS. The names and addresses of the Limited Partners
shall be as set forth in Exhibit 'A' attached hereto, as amended from time to
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Section 15614(b) of the California Corporations Code, the name and address of
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3. DEFINITIONS.
3.1 "AFFILIATE" shall mean:
(i) any person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or
under common control with another person;
(ii) a person owning or controlling 10% or more of the outstanding
voting securities of such other person;
(iii) any officer, director or partner of such other person; and
(iv) any person who is an officer, director, general partner, trustee,
or holder of 10% or more of the voting securities or beneficial interests
of any of the foregoing. (The word "person" is defined in Section 15.7 of
this Agreement.)
3.2 "AGREEMENT" shall mean this Agreement of Limited Partnership, as
amended from time to time.
3.3 "ASSIGNEE" shall mean a person who has acquired a beneficial interest
in one or more Units from a Partner but who is not a Substituted Limited
Partner.
3.4 "CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION" shall mean the cash contributed to the capital
of the Partnership by a Limited Partner in exchange for such Limited Partner's
Units.
3.5 "CASH AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION" shall mean the cash receipts from
the operations of the Partnership, after deducting cash funds used to pay all
expenses, debt payments, capital improvements and replacements and less the
amounts set aside for acquisition of additional assets or creation of reserves.
The actual distribution of cash shall be in the sole discretion of the General
Partner.
3.6 "CLOSING DATE" shall mean the date after which the General Partner
will not accept any further subscriptions, which shall be December 31, 1993. If
all Units are subscribed prior to December 31, 1993, an earlier Closing Date may
be designated by the General Partner,
3.7 "CODE" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from
time to time.
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3.8 "GENERAL PARTNER" shall mean Performance Development, Inc., a
California corporation, or any other person succeeding in that capacity.
3.9 "GROSS INCOME" shall mean the gross income of the Partnership as
determined using the accrual method of accounting as permitted by the Code.
3.10 "GROSS PROCEEDS" shall mean the aggregate total of the Capital
Contributions of all of the Limited Partners.
3.11 "GROSS REVENUE" shall mean all revenues from the Partnership's
collection or sale of assets obtained from federal and state banking and savings
and loan agencies, the FDIC, RTC or various other sources. The term "Gross
Revenue" shall not include revenues from the sale, refinancing or other
disposition of Partnership administrative assets, such as office equipment and
furniture, or from earnings on savings or invested funds.
3.12 "LIMITED PARTNERS" shall mean the persons who have been admitted to
the Partnership as limited partners in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement. Reference to a "Limited Partner" shall mean any one of them.
3.13 "MAJORITY VOTE" shall mean that vote of the Limited Partners provided
for in Paragraph 9.3.3 of this Agreement.
3.14 "MEMORANDUM" shall mean the Confidential Private Placement Memorandum
dated September 25, 1 992, of which this Agreement is Exhibit "A."
3.15 "NET INCOME" or "NET LOSS" shall mean the net income or net loss of
the Partnership for federal income tax purposes, as determined on the accrual
method of accounting as permitted by the Code.
3.16 "NET PROCEEDS" shall mean the total of Gross Proceeds less expenses
incurred and to be paid by the Partnership in organizing the Partnership and in
offering and selling the Units.
3.17 "OPERATING EXPENSES" shall mean all expenses of operating the
Partnership not deemed to be "Organizational Expenses" or "Sales Commissions" as
those terms are defined herein.
3.18 "ORGANIZATIONAL EXPENSES" shall mean all expenses incurred by the
General Partner or the Partnership in organizing the Partnership and in the
qualifying and marketing of the Units which shall include all expenses incurred
prior to the commencement of the Partnership's offering of the Units, as well as
those subsequently incurred in complying with continuing conditions of
qualifying the Partnership and that offering pursuant to applicable federal and
state laws, including, but not limited to, the costs of printing, amending,
supplementing and distributing the Memorandum and any other sales material; and
the legal and accounting costs incurred in connection therewith.
3.19 "ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT FEE" shall mean the fee paid to the
General Partner for its services to the Partnership for the organization of the
Partnership, out of which the General Partner shall pay the Organizational
Expenses as specified in Paragraph 8.2.8 of this Agreement.
3.20 "PARTNERS" shall mean the General Partner and the Limited Partners,
and reference to a Partner shall mean any one of the Partners.
3.21 "PARTNERSHIP" shall mean Performance Asset Management Fund III, Ltd.,
A California Limited Partnership.
3.22 "PARTNERSHIP MANAGEMENT FEE" shall mean the fee authorized by
Subparagraph 8.2.3.1 of this Agreement.
3.23 "PLACEMENT MANAGER" shall mean Income Network Company, a California
corporation, and an NASD Broker/Dealer which is an Affiliate of the General
Partner and selected by the General Partner to sell the Units.
3.24 "SALES COMMISSIONS" shall mean those amounts paid to NASD
Broker/Dealers selected by the General Partner as compensation or reimbursement
for their services and expenses in marketing the Units.
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3.25 "SUBSTITUTED LIMITED PARTNER" shall mean a transferee of Units who
has succeeded to all the rights of a Limited Partner inherent in the ownership
of Units.
3.26 "SYNDICATION FEE" shall mean the fee paid to the General Partner
equal to 3% of the Gross Proceeds.
3.27 "TOTAL OUTSTANDING UNITS" shall mean all Units outstanding at a
specified date.
3.28 "UNIT" shall mean an interest in the Partnership representing a
capital contribution of $5,000 in cash and shall entitle the holder thereof to
an interest in the income, gains, losses, deductions, credits and distributions
of the Partnership.
4. TERM.
The business of the Partnership shall commence on the date the minimum
number of subscriptions for Units is accepted by the General Partner or the date
a separate Certificate of Limited Partnership pursuant to the Act and shall
continue until December 31, 2005, unless sooner terminated in accordance with
the provisions of this Agreement. The filing or recordation date of this
Agreement or the Certificate of Limited Partnership shall not control the date
of commencement of the business of the Partnership,
5. CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
5.1 GENERAL PARTNER. The General Partner shall make no contribution to the
capital of the Partnership.
5.2 PRIVATE OFFERING. The Partnership intends to make a private offering
of limited partnership interests so that the capital of the Partnership
contributed by the Limited Partners shall consist of 1,000 Units, each unit paid
for by a cash contribution of $5,000, and to admit, as Limited Partners, the
persons whose subscriptions for such Units are accepted by the General Partner.
Each such person shall become a Limited Partner when (i) such person has signed,
personally or by attorney-in-fact, a copy of the Subscription Agreement (and the
appendices thereto) and a copy of this Agreement attached to the Memorandum;
(ii) the General Partner has accepted such subscription; and (iii) this
Agreement and the Certificate of Limited Partnership are amended, as required by
law, to specify such person has become a Limited Partner.
5.3 LIMITED PARTNERS. The Limited Partners shall contribute to the capital
of the Partnership in the amount of $5,000 by cash, check or money order for
each Unit purchased, with a minimum purchase of 5 Units. Limited Partners shall
be admitted to the Partnership pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.1 of this
Agreement. The General Partner shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to
waive the minimum purchase requirement.
5.4 INDEMNITY. Each Limited Partner agrees to indemnify, defend and hold
the Partnership and the other Partners harmless from any and all liability,
expense or damage occurring because of such Limited Partner's failure to
contribute when due and payable any Capital Contribution such Limited Partner is
required or elects to make pursuant to this Article 5.
5.5 SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT. Each person who acquires Units shall execute
and deliver to the General Partner, or its representative, the Subscription
Agreement attached to the Memorandum marked Exhibit "B," pursuant to which such
person agrees to purchase the number of Units indicated therein and to pay for
such Units in the manner indicated above. The Subscription Agreement contains
the written acceptance and adoption by such person of the provisions of this
Agreement, and includes the execution and delivery to the General Partner of a
special power of attorney, the form, style and content of which are more
completely described therein. The acceptance or rejection of the Subscription
Agreement submitted by any person shall be within the absolute discretion of the
General Partner, and no subscription shall be deemed accepted until the General
Partner executes the Subscription Agreement.
5.6 ACCEPTANCE BY GENERAL PARTNER. The General Partner shall accept or
reject the Subscription Agreements tendered by prospective Limited Partners that
are made in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.5 of this Agreement no
later than the Closing Date.
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5.7 LIABILITY FOR CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Each Limited Partner is
personally liable to the Partnership for payment of that Partner's entire agreed
upon Capital Contribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
5.8 SALE OF UNITS. The General Partner shall have the right to qualify the
Units with state securities regulatory authorities or perfect exemptions from
qualification and enter into such underwriting or agency arrangements for the
sale thereof pursuant to such terms and conditions as the General Partner may
deem advisable.
5.9 WITHDRAWAL OR RETURN OF CAPITAL. No Partner shall have the right to
demand the withdrawal, reduction or return of that Partner's Capital
Contribution without the consent of all of the Partners, or upon the dissolution
and termination of the Partnership; nor shall any Partner have the right to
demand and receive property other than cash in return for that Partner's Capital
Contribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no part of the Capital Contribution
of any Partner shall be withdrawn unless all liabilities of the Partnership
(except liabilities to the Limited Partners on account of their Capital
Contributions) have been paid or unless the Partnership has assets sufficient to
pay those liabilities as those liabilities become due and payable. A Limited
Partner shall look only to the assets of the Partnership and, if Partnership
property remaining after the payment or discharge of the liabilities of the
Partnership is insufficient to return that Limited Partner's Capital
Contribution, that Limited Partner shall have no recourse against the General
Partner or any other Limited Partners for such return.
5.10 INTEREST. No Limited Partner shall receive any interest on that
Limited Partner's Capital Contribution.
5.11 OPERATION OF PARTNERSHIP PROPERTY. The Partnership shall acquire,
manage, finance, operate, refinance and sell any property on terms and
conditions deemed suitable by the General Partner, in its sole judgment.
6. ALLOCATION OF INCOME, LOSS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.
6.1 PAYMENT OF OBLIGATIONS. The General Partner shall pay to creditors on
or prior to the end of each year all Partnership obligations which are due and
payable at that time and shall create cash reserves for liquidated obligations
not then due and payable, and then to the extent the General Partner believes
such obligations cannot be paid from future projected Partnership receipts.
6.2 CASH AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION. The General Partner shall distribute
Cash Available For Distribution to the Partners no less frequently than
quarterly, in the following order of priority:
(a) To the Limited Partners in an amount equal to 90% of the Cash
Available For Distribution.
(b) To the General Partner in an amount equal to 10% of the Cash
Available For Distribution.
After the Limited Partners have received a cash return equal to their
Capital Contributions, the Limited Partners shall receive 70% of Cash Available
For Distribution and the General Partner shall receive 30% of Cash Available For
Distribution.
Distributions pursuant to this Section 6.2 constitute a return of
capital, not a return on capital, and depend entirely upon the success of the
Partnership and are not intended to create a guaranteed payment for the capital
contributed to the Partnership,
6.3 DISTRIBUTION, REFINANCING OR TERMINATION. Upon the sale of all or
substantially all of the Partnership assets or when the Partnership is
terminated and wound up, the Partnership assets shall be distributed in the
following order of priority:
(a) All liabilities of the Partnership shall be paid or adequately
provided for.
(b) The General Partner may create a reserve to provide for contingent
or unforeseen liabilities. When the reason for the creation of that reserve
has been eliminated, the balance of that reserve shall be distributed in
the priority described in (c) and (d) below.
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(c) Any Cash Available For Distribution in the year or years of sale,
termination and winding up, and any funds held for the Limited Partners'
benefit not needed for (a) or (b) above shall be distributed in the
priority described in Section 6.2 of this Agreement.
(d) All assets remaining following the above distributions shall be
distributed to the Partners in the percentages of the Partners interests in
the capital of the Partnership.
If for any reason the General Partner deems it to be in the best
interests of the Partners to delay for a reasonable period of time the
distribution of any amounts otherwise distributable pursuant to the provision of
this Agreement, the General Partner may do so.
6.4 LIMITATIONS ON DISTRIBUTIONS. Distributions, also, may be restricted
or suspended for limited periods in circumstances when the General Partner
determines, in its absolute discretion, that such action is in the best
interests of the Partnership. The General Partner intends to make distributions
of substantially all of the Cash Available For Distribution as funds are
available; however, no assurances are hereby made that such distributions will
occur. All distributions will be subject to the payment of the Partnership
expenses and liabilities and to the maintenance of reasonable reserves.
The General Partner, from time to time, may elect to make partial returns of
Capital Contributions to Limited Partners provided that:
(i) all liabilities of the Partnership to persons other than Partners
have been paid, or, in the good faith determination of the General Partner,
there remains property of the Partnership sufficient to pay those
liabilities;
(ii) the General Partner causes this Agreement and the Certificate of
Limited Partnership to be amended to specify such a reduction in the
Capital Contributions; and
(iii) all such returns of the Capital Contributions are made in such a
manner as to return to the Partners their proportionate interests in the
Partnership.
For purposes of the foregoing provisions, the condition of subpart (iii) of this
Section 6.4 shall have been satisfied if the distributions are made to the
Limited Partners based upon the interests of the Limited Partners in the capital
of in the Partnership. Each Limited Partner, by becoming a Limited Partner,
consents to any such distributions theretofore or thereafter made in accordance
with such provisions, and further consents to variations among the Limited
Partners in the amount of any such distribution made in cash or in kind. Any
property distributed in kind will be valued on the basis of an independent
appraisal and treated as though such property were sold and the cash proceeds
distributed.
6.5 ALLOCATION OF INCOME AND LOSS. Income, deductions, gains, and losses
shall be allocated, during the term of the Partnership, 10% to the General
Partner and 90% to the Limited Partners until the Limited Partners have been
returned 100% of their Capital Contributions; thereafter, to the extent allowed
by the provisions of Section 704 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (substantial economic effect test), such allocations shall be made 30%
to the General Partner and 70% to the Limited Partners, subject to the
provisions of Section 6.2 of this Agreement.
6.6 LOANS BY PARTNERS. Should any Partner make a loan to the Partnership,
such Partner would be entitled to receive interest on any loan so made, but in
no event shall such interest be in excess of the maximum legal rate then
allowable pursuant to the usury law of the State of California.
6.7 CONSENT BY PARTNERS. The methods hereinabove set forth by which
income, gains, losses, deductions, credits and distributions are allocated and
apportioned are hereby expressly consented to by each Partner as a specific
condition to becoming a Partner.
6.8 ACCOUNTING. Each item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit of
the Partnership shall be determined in accordance with the accrual basis of
accounting, consistently applied, pursuant to the provisions of the Code.
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7. PARTNER EXPENSES.
7.1 ADVANCES BY THE GENERAL PARTNER. The General Partner may advance any
monies to the Partnership required for the business of the Partnership, but the
General Partner has no obligation to do so. Such advances shall be deemed a loan
by the General Partner to the Partnership and shall not be deemed a Capital
Contribution. Such loans shall bear interest as provided in Section 6.6 of this
Agreement.
7.2 REIMBURSEMENT OF THE GENERAL PARTNER. The Partnership shall reimburse
the General Partner and its Affiliates for any Operating Expenses which were
advanced or otherwise incurred by the General Partner or its Affiliates on
behalf of the Partnership which are necessary to the prudent operation of the
Partnership. The reimbursement of those Operating Expenses shall comply with the
provisions of Rule 260.140.114.5(a) of the Rules of the Department of
Corporations of the State of California.
7.3 EXPENSES. Operating Expenses may include, but shall not be limited to,
legal, audit, accounting, and printing costs or fees; expenses for revising,
amending, converting, modifying or terminating this Agreement; expenses
connected with the payment of distributions in cash or other property made by
the Partnership; expenses connected with communications to the Partners or other
persons with interests in the Partnership, and bookkeeping and clerical work
necessary in maintaining relations with such persons, including costs of
printing and mailing notices and reports to such persons, the preparation of
proxy and similar statements and the solicitation of proxies and written
consents and the costs in connection therewith; costs incurred in connection
with any litigation in which the Partnership is involved as well as any
examination, investigation or other proceedings conducted by any regulatory
agency of the Partnership, including legal and accounting fees incurred in
connection therewith; costs of any accounting, statistical or bookkeeping
equipment necessary or appropriate for the maintenance of the books and records
of the Partnership; supervision and expenses of professionals employed by the
Partnership in connection with any of the foregoing, including attorneys,
accountants and appraisers. Except as provided in Section 7.2 of this Agreement,
all expenses of the Partnership shall be billed directly to and paid by the
Partnership.
7.4 SYNDICATION FEE. The Partnership will pay the Syndication Fee to the
General Partner which is equal to 3% of the Gross Proceeds. The Syndication Fee
will be paid from the Gross Proceeds.
8. GENERAL PARTNER.
8.1 GENERAL PARTNER MAY PURCHASE UNITS. The General Partner and its
Affiliates shall have the right, but not the obligation, to contribute to the
capital of the Partnership as a Limited Partner, paying the complete price for
Units on the same terms as any other Limited Partner. With respect to Units held
as a Limited Partner, the General Partner shall be treated as any other Limited
Partner with regard to those Units.
8.2 COMPENSATION OF THE GENERAL PARTNER.
8.2.1 GENERAL LIMITATIONS ON COMPENSATION. The General Partner shall
receive compensation from the Partnership only as specified by the provisions of
this Agreement.
8.2.2 ORGANIZATION AND OFFERING STAGE. The Partnership shall reimburse
the General Partner for Organizational Expenses in an amount not to exceed 15%
of Gross Proceeds. Of that 15%, 10% shall be for reimbursement of selling and
wholesaling expenses and commissions and 2% shall be for legal, accounting,
printing, and other syndication expenses. To the extent amounts equal to those
percentages are not expended for those purposes, such amounts shall be added to
working capital of the Partnership. The Partnership will pay to the General
Partner the Syndication Fee which is equal to 3% of the Gross Proceeds.
8.2.3 OPERATING STAGE.
8.2.3.1 PARTNERSHIP MANAGEMENT FEE. The General Partner shall be
entitled to an annual and on-going Partnership management fee of an amount equal
to 2 1/2% of the net asset value of the assets of the Partnership during the
operating stage of the Partnership, which fee shall be paid monthly. The net
asset value of the Partnerships assets shall be the total of the (i) lower of
the market value, determined by the General Partner each year, or the cost to
the Partnership of non-performing assets and (ii) principal balances of
performing assets.
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8.2.3.2 DISTRIBUTIONS. The General Partner shall be entitled to an
interest in the Partnership which consists of income, gains, losses, deductions,
credits and distributions pursuant to the provisions of Sections 6.2, 6.3, and
6.5 of this Agreement, payable upon distribution.
8.2.3.3 REBATES, KICKBACKS, AND RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS. No rebates,
kickbacks or give-ups may be received by the General Partner nor may the General
Partner participate in any reciprocal business arrangements which would
circumvent any provision of this Agreement, or violate the provisions of Rule
260.140.114.7 of the Rules of the Department of Corporations of the State of
California.
8.2.4 EXPULSION, RESIGNATION OR WITHDRAWAL OF THE GENERAL
PARTNER. Should the General Partner be expelled, resign or withdraw from the
Partnership pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 9.3.2 or Section 8.6 of this
Agreement, any interest which the General Partner shall then have in the
capital, income, gains, losses, deductions, credits and distributions of the
Partnership shall be converted to an interest of a Limited Partner and
thereafter the General Partner shall retain that interest as a Limited Partner
and shall be treated, in all respects, as a Limited Partner. Should the General
Partner be expelled, resign or withdraw from the Partnership, the General
Partner shall be entitled to interest on any loans made to the Partnership
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.
8.3 RIGHTS, AUTHORITY, POWERS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES OF THE GENERAL
PARTNER.
8.3.1 GENERAL POWERS. The General Partner shall have all authority,
right and power conferred by law and required or appropriate for the management
of the Partnership's business which, by way of illustration, but not by way of
limitation, shall include the rights, authority and powers specified in
Paragraph 8.3.2 of this Agreement. In the management of Partnership business,
the General Partner may delegate duties to such persons as the General Partner
may deem appropriate.
8.3.2 SPECIFIC POWERS.
8.3.2.1 ACQUIRE, MANAGE AND SELL PROPERTY. To the extent reasonably
necessary to achieve the Partnership's objective, to acquire, hold and dispose
of any personal or real property or interests therein, at such price for cash or
securities or other property, and upon terms, as the General Partner, in its
sole discretion, deems to be in the best interests of the Partnership.
8.3.2.2 MANAGE PROPERTY ASSETS. To manage, operate and develop any
Partnership asset or investment, and to enter into leases, servicing agreements,
marketing agreements, consulting agreements, operating agreements, joint
ventures or other contracts with such persons with respect to assets and
investments acquired by the Partnership, containing such terms, provisions and
conditions as the General Partner shall approve. No person doing business or
dealing with the Partnership shall be required to inquire into the authority of
the General Partner to take any action or make any decisions.
8.3.2.3 BORROW. To borrow money and, if security is required
therefor, to subject any Partnership property to any security device, to obtain
replacements of any security device, and to prepay, in whole or in part,
refinance, increase, modify, consolidate or extend any mortgage or other
security device, all of the foregoing on such terms and in such amounts as the
General Partner, in its sole discretion, deems to be in the best interest of the
Partnership.
8.3.2.4 CONTRACT FOR INSURANCE. To acquire and enter into any
contract for insurance, or have the Partnership named as on additional insured,
which the General Partner deems necessary or appropriate for the protection of
the Partnership and the General Partner, for the conservation of Partnership
assets, or for any purpose convenient or beneficial to the Partnership.
8.3.2.5 EMPLOY PERSONS AND SERVICES. To employ persons in the
operation and management of the business of the Partnership, including, but not
limited to, supervisory managing agents, accountants, bookkeepers, attorneys,
insurance brokers, real estate brokers and loan brokers, on such terms and for
such compensation as the General Partner shall determine, subject, however, to
the limitations with respect thereto as specified in Section 8.3 of this
Agreement.
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8.3.2.6 PREPARE REPORTS. To prepare or cause to be prepared reports,
statements and other relevant information for distribution to the Limited
Partners deemed appropriate by the General Partner.
8.3.2.7 MAINTAIN BANK ACCOUNTS. To open accounts and deposit and
maintain funds in the name of the Partnership in banks or savings and loan
associations; provided, however, the Partnership's funds shall not be commingled
with the funds of any other person.
8.3.2.8 TAX ELECTIONS. To cause the Partnership to make or revoke
any elections pursuant to federal or state tax laws as the General Partner, in
its discretion, deems to be in the best interest of the Partnership.
8.3.2.9 SELECTING ACCOUNTING METHOD AND YEAR. To select as the
Partnership's accounting year a calendar year or such fiscal year as approved by
the Internal Revenue Service, and to determine the appropriate accounting method
or methods to be used by the Partnership. The Partnership intends, initially, to
utilize the accrual method of accounting in maintaining the Partnership's books
and records and to report on the basis of a calendar year.
8.3.2.10 SELL UNITS. To offer and sell Units directly or through
finders, wholesalers, agents or Broker/Dealers; provided, however, such persons
shall be Broker/Dealers licensed with the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. or shall be otherwise Registered Representatives, to persons who
make the requisite Capital Contributions, and to admit such persons as Limited
Partners.
8.3.2.11 PURCHASE UNITS FOR OWN ACCOUNT. To purchase Units for the
General Partner's account for investment, or for resale. If the General Partner,
also, is a Limited Partner, then the interests, rights and obligations of the
General Partner as the General Partner and as a Limited Partner at all times
shall be kept separate and distinct.
8.3.2.12 TEMPORARY REFUSAL TO TRANSFER UNITS. To temporarily refuse
to transfer a Limited Partner's interest in the Partnership if such transfer
would result in a sale or exchange of more than 50% of the Partnership's capital
and profits within a 12 month period.
8.3.2.13 COMPROMISE AND SETTLE CLAIMS. To compromise, arbitrate or
otherwise adjust claims in favor of or against the Partnership and to commence
or defend litigation with respect to the Partnership or any assets of the
Partnership as the General Partner may deem advisable, all or any of the above
matters being at the expense of the Partnership; and to satisfy any judgment,
decree, decision or settlement first, out of any insurance proceeds available
therefor, and then out of Partnership assets and income.
8.3.2.14 CONTRACT WITH AFFILIATES. The General Partner may contract
on behalf of the Partnership with Affiliates of the General Partner or the
Partnership to provide services or materials for the Partnership, such as
management, maintenance, executive, accounting, brokerage, or legal services;
provided, however, the fees to be paid therefor and the terms and conditions
thereof will not be less favorable to the Partnership than those which could be
reasonably obtained by the Partnership from equally qualified but unaffiliated
persons; provided, further, however, such contracts must satisfy the
requirements of Rules 260.140.125, 260.140.125.1, 260.140.126, 260.140.127.1 and
260.140.127.2 of the Department of Corporations of the State of California.
8.3.2.15 NON-RECOURSE CONTRACTS. To require in all Partnership
contracts that the General Partner shall not have any personal liability
thereon, but that the person contracting with the Partnership is to look solely
to the Partnership and the Partnership's assets for satisfaction.
8.3.2.16 AMEND PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT. To amend this Agreement after
obtaining a Majority Vote (i) to carry out the business and purpose of the
Partnership; (ii) to add to the representations, duties or obligations of the
General Partner or surrender any right or power granted to the General Partner
in this Agreement, for the benefit of the Limited Partners; and (iii) to cure
any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision of this Agreement that may
be inconsistent with any other provision in this Agreement or to add any other
provision with respect to matters or questions occurring pursuant to the
provisions of this Agreement that will not be inconsistent with the provisions
of this Agreement.
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8.3.2.17 EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS. To execute, acknowledge and deliver
any and all instruments to effectuate the foregoing, and to take all such action
in connection therewith as the General Partner shall deem necessary or
appropriate.
8.3.2.18 INVEST PRIOR TO ACQUISITION. To invest the Gross Proceeds
or Net Proceeds temporarily prior to the purchase of assets in short term,
highly liquid investment where there is appropriate safety of principal.
8.3.2.19 PERFORM OTHER ACTS. To perform any and all other acts or
activities customary or incident to the business of the Partnership.
8.3.3 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE GENERAL PARTNER. The General
Partner shall devote only such time to the Partnership as the General Partner,
in its discretion, determines to be reasonably required for the efficient
conduct of the affairs of the Partnership, but nothing specified in this
Agreement shall preclude the General Partner from engaging in or possessing an
interest in other business ventures of every nature and description, and neither
the Partnership nor the Limited Partners shall have any interest, by virtue of
this Agreement, in any such other business ventures or the income or profits
derived therefrom. In addition, nothing specified in this Agreement, except the
provisions of Subparagraph 8.3.2.14 of this Agreement, shall preclude the
employment of any agent, third party or Affiliate of the General Partner to
manage or provide other services in respect of the Partnership's properties or
business subject to the control of the General Partner. The General Partner, in
all instances, shall retain general control over and continue to supervise
generally the day to day operations of the Partnership's properties and business
and, in this connection, the General Partner shall provide, furnish and perform,
in a good faith, diligent and efficient manner, all normal and customary
business and administrative duties and services necessary to conduct the
Partnership's business in an expeditious and economical manner.
8.3.3.1 OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY. The General Partner shall take such
steps as are necessary, in its best judgment, to acquire ownership to any
property acquired by the Partnership, acceptable for the purposes of the
Partnership.
8.3.3.2 FILINGS. The General Partner shall be responsible for filing
a Certificate of Limited Partnership and a Fictitious Business Name Statement
and any required amendments thereto.
8.3.3.3 NET WORTH. The General Partner (i) will use its best efforts
at all times to maintain a net worth in excess of the total amount that could
reasonably be expected to be demanded from it by creditors of all partnerships
of which it is a general partner; (ii) will hold its interest in the Partnership
for its own account; and (iii) will not agree to act as a nominee or agent of a
limited partner except as set forth in the partnership agreements for the
partnerships of which it is or may hereafter become a general partner.
8.3.3.4 TAX MATTERS PARTNER. The Partners do hereby appoint
Performance Development, Inc., the General Partner, to act as the "Tax Matters
Partner," as described in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982.
8.4 LIMITATIONS ON GENERAL PARTNER'S AUTHORITY. The General Partner shall
have all the rights and powers and be subject to all the responsibilities and
the liabilities of a partner in a partnership without limited partners, except
that neither the General Partner nor any of its Affiliates shall have the
authority to:
8.4.1 ALTER PURPOSE OF PARTNERSHIP. Alter the primary purpose of the
Partnership as specified in Article I of this Agreement.
8.4.2 ACTS IN CONTRAVENTION OF THIS AGREEMENT. Do any act in
contravention of this Agreement or any separate Certificate of Limited
Partnership or enter into any reciprocal business arrangement which could
circumvent any of the restrictions specified in this Agreement.
8.4.3 HINDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. Do any act which would
make it impossible to carry on the ordinary business of the Partnership as
provided in this Agreement.
8.4.4 POSSESS PARTNERSHIP PROPERTY. To possess Partnership property or
assign the rights of the Partnership in specific property other than for a
Partnership purpose.
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8.4.5 ADMIT PERSONS CONTRARY TO THIS AGREEMENT. Admit a person as a
Limited Partner except as otherwise provided in this Agreement.
8.4.6 CONTINUE PARTNERSHIP AFTER LEGAL TERMINATION. Enter into
contracts with the Partnership which would obligate the Partnership after the
death, retirement, expulsion, insanity, adjudication of bankruptcy or
insolvency, dissolution or other termination of existence of the General
Partner, or to continue business with the Partnership's assets after the
occurrence of such event.
8.4.7 CONFESSIONS OF JUDGMENTS. Confess a judgment against the
Partnership in connection with any threatened or pending legal action.
8.4.8 ADMISSION OF GENERAL PARTNER. Admit a person as a general partner
of the Partnership, except with the consent of the Limited Partners as specified
in this Agreement.
8.4.9 USE OF PARTNERSHIP ASSETS. Employ or permit to employ the funds
or assets of the Partnership in any manner, except for the exclusive benefit of
the Partnership.
8.4.10 CREATION OF LIABILITY OF LIMITED PARTNERS. Perform any act
(other than an act required by this Agreement or any act taken in good faith
upon counsel's opinion) which would, at the time such act occurred, subject any
Limited Partner to liability as a general partner in any jurisdiction.
8.4.11 REDEMPTION OF UNITS. Redeem or repurchase Units, except as
specified in Section 8.8 of this Agreement or when the General Partner
determines such redemption or repurchase is in the best interests of the
Partnership and would not impair the capital of the Partnership or the operation
of the Partnership's business.
8.4.12 TAXATION AS A CORPORATION. Perform any act that would cause the
Partnership to become an association taxable as a corporation for federal income
tax purposes.
8.4.13 PARTNERSHIP LOAN. Lend Partnership funds to the General Partner
or an Affiliate of the General Partner.
8.4.14 INTEREST OF CREDITOR IN PARTNERSHIP. Incur any non-recourse
indebtedness pursuant to which the lender will have or acquire, at any time as a
result of making extending that indebtedness, any direct or indirect interest in
the profit, capital or property of the Partnership other than as a secured
creditor.
8.4.15 COMMINGLING OF PARTNERSHIP FUNDS. Commingle the Partnership
funds with funds of any other person.
8.5 LIABILITY OF THE GENERAL PARTNER.
8.5.1 FRAUD, BAD FAITH OR GROSS MISCONDUCT. Except when any loss to the
Limited Partners is caused by fraud, bad faith, gross misconduct, gross
negligence or a breach of fiduciary duty by the General Partner (or any
employee, Affiliate, officer or director of the General Partner), it is
expressly agreed that the General Partner (or any employee, Affiliate, officer
or director of the General Partner) shall not be personally liable for the
return of the capital or any other contributions of the Limited Partners, or any
portion thereof, but on the contrary, that any such return shall be made solely
from the Partnership's assets. However, to be held harmless from any loss or
liability suffered by the Partnership, all of the following conditions must be
satisfied:
(1) the General Partner has determined, in good faith, that the
course of conduct which caused the loss or liability was in the best
interests of the Partnership;
(2) such liability or loss was not the result of gross negligence
or gross misconduct by the General Partner; and
(3) such indemnification or agreement to hold harmless is
recoverable only out of assets of the Partnership and not from the
Limited Partners.
8.5.2 SECURITIES LAWS. The General Partner and its Affiliates will not
be indemnified for any liability imposed by judgment, and costs associated
therewith, including attorneys' fees, occurring because of a
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violation of state or federal securities laws associated with the offer and sale
of the Units. Indemnification will be allowed for settlements and related
expenses of lawsuits alleging securities violations, and for expenses incurred
in successfully defending such lawsuits, provided a court either:
(1) approves the settlement and finds that indemnification of the
settlement and related expenses should be made, or
(2) approves indemnification of litigation costs if a successful
defense is made.
8.5.3 PROPER USE OF ASSETS. The General Partner shall have a fiduciary
responsibility to the Limited Partners for the safekeeping and proper use of all
assets of the Partnership whether or not such assets are in the immediate
possession or control of the General Partner.
8.6 REMOVAL, RESIGNATION OR OTHER TERMINATION OF THE GENERAL PARTNER.
8.6.1 REMOVING GENERAL PARTNER. Should the General Partner cease to be
the general partner of the Partnership by reason of the death, disability,
bankruptcy, resignation or removal of the General Partner, any remaining general
partner of the Partnership, if there be one, shall become the General Partner of
the Partnership. The remaining general partner shall continue to serve as the
remaining general partner unless that General Partner shall resign or withdraw
upon 90 days written notice to the Limited Partners (in which event the Limited
Partners, pursuant to Section 9.3 of this Agreement, may elect a successor
general partner prior to the effective date of the resignation), or is removed
as the General Partner upon the vote of the Limited Partners pursuant to Section
9.3 of this Agreement, in which event a successor general partner may be
selected by the Limited Partners pursuant to Section 9.3 of this Agreement.
8.6.2 NOTICE OF EXPULSION. Upon the requisite vote to remove the
General Partner (any Units held by the General Partner shall not be counted for
the purposes of the voting procedure) as described in Paragraph 9.3.2(ii) of
this Agreement, written notice of expulsion shall be served upon the General
Partner by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or by
personal service. Said notice shall specify the date upon which the expulsion is
to become effective, which date shall be not less than 30 days after the service
of said notice upon the General Partner.
8.6.3 DUTIES AFTER EXPULSION. Upon receipt of the notice of expulsion,
the General Partner shall cease to act as general partner of the Partnership
unless it is the sole general partner of the Partnership; in which event the
General Partner shall continue in the management of the Partnership's business
until a successor general partner is elected, but the General Partner shall
enter into no contract except in the ordinary course of the Partnership's
business.
8.6.4 INTEREST IN PROFITS AND LOSSES. Removal, resignation or
withdrawal of the General Partner shall not affect the interest of the General
Partner in the profits and losses and in the distributions of the Partnership as
specified in Article 6 of this Agreement. Such interest, in the event of the
continuation of the business of the Partnership following removal of the General
Partner, may be treated and continue to be treated in all respects as a Limited
Partner's interest and the Certificate of Limited Partnership shall be amended
accordingly.
8.6.5 STATUS OF UNITS AFTER REMOVAL. If the General Partner has been
expelled or removed, resigns or withdraws, or had its interest as general
partner of the Partnership terminated and owns any Units as General Partner,
such Units shall thereafter be held by the General Partner as a Limited Partner
and the Certificate of Limited Partnership shall be amended accordingly.
8.6.6 CHANGE OF PARTNERSHIP NAME. An expelled, retired or withdrawn
general partner may require the Partnership to change the Partnership's name to
a name that does not include any words, trademarks or logos associated with the
expelled, retired or withdrawn general partner.
8.7 ASSIGNMENT OF GENERAL PARTNER'S INTEREST. The General Partner may
assign or encumber its right to receive distributions from the Partnership, or a
portion thereof, without the consent of the Limited Partners. The General
Partner, however, may not substitute any transferee as a general partner of the
Partnership or
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assign any of the General Partner's duties and obligations created by the
provisions of this Agreement without the approval of a Majority Vote.
9. LIMITED PARTNERS.
9.1 ADMISSION OF LIMITED PARTNERS.
9.1.1 MINIMUM OF UNITS. The Partnership intends to sell and issue 1,000
Units in exchange for Capital Contributions of $5,000 per each Unit in cash.
Each person who acquires any Units shall be eligible to become a Limited Partner
in the Partnership at such time as that person has:
(i) purchased 5 or more Units, or less than 5 Units, or, a fraction
of a Unit, if, in the discretion of the General Partner, purchases of
less than the minimum purchase are permitted;
(ii) submitted to the Partnership the sum of $5,000 in cash, check
or money order for each Unit purchased;
(iii) executed and filed with the General Partner a written
instrument which sets forth an intention to become a Limited Partner and
requests admission to the Partnership in that capacity, together with
such other instruments as the General Partner may deem necessary or
desirable to effect such admission, including the written acceptance and
adoption by such person of the provisions of this Agreement, and the
execution, acknowledgment and delivery to the General Partner of a
special power of attorney, the form, style and content of which are more
fully described herein; and
(iv) obtained the consent of the General Partner to be admitted as
a Limited Partner, which consent shall be within the absolute discretion
of the General Partner. Such consent shall be given or refused by the
Closing Date.
9.1.2 RELEASE OF PROCEEDS OF OFFERING. If 50 Units have been sold prior
to the Closing Date, the proceeds of the offering will be released on the
Closing Date and a subscriber shall be deemed to have been shall be deemed to
have been admitted into the Partnership.
9.1.3 CONTINUED SALE OF UNITS. The Partnership may continue to sell
Units until all 1,000 Units have been sold or until December 31, 1993, whichever
occurs first.
9.1.4 AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT. The General Partner, when required, shall
amend this Agreement and any separate Certificate of Limited Partnership filed
for record to specify the admission of a person as a Limited Partner. The number
of Units acquired by the Limited Partners and each Partner's respective
ownership interest is set forth in Exhibit 'A' which is attached hereto and
incorporated herein by this reference.
9.2 STATUS OF LIMITED PARTNERS.
9.2.1 LIABILITY. A Limited Partner shall not be obligated by, or be
personally liable for, the expenses, liabilities or obligations of the
Partnership except to the extent of the Capital Contribution required to be made
by that Limited Partner pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and any
additional contribution to the capital of the Partnership actually made by that
Limited Partner. A Partner is liable to return a distribution if, after the
distribution, Partnership liabilities exceed the fair salable value of
Partnership assets. However, nonrecourse liabilities and the assets which secure
those liabilities, as well as liabilities owed to Partners on account of their
interests in the Partnership, are excluded. Notwithstanding the above
limitations, the Limited Partners hereby consent to such distributions in the
event all Partnership debts (other than debts owing to the Partners) have been
paid or provided for adequately.
9.2.2 NONASSESSABILITY. Each Unit shall be paid completely and
nonassessable, when issued.
9.3 RIGHTS, POWERS AND VOTING RIGHTS OF THE LIMITED PARTNERS.
9.3.1 MANAGEMENT. Limited Partners shall take no part in or interfere
in any manner with the control, conduct or operation of the Partnership and
shall have no right or authority to act for or obligate the Partnership.
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9.3.2 VOTING RIGHTS. The provisions of this Agreement notwithstanding,
without the necessity for concurrence by the General Partner, a Majority Vote
may:
(i) amend this Agreement;
(ii) remove the General Partner;
(iii) elect a new general partner;
(iv) approve or disapprove the sale of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Partnership;
(v) dissolve the Partnership; and
(vi) extend the Partnership term for an additional 10 years. The
terms of an agreement with respect to such extension shall be negotiated
at that time between the General Partner and the Partnership.
9.3.2.1 AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT BY GENERAL PARTNER. Without the
concurrence of a Majority Vote, the General Partner may not amend this Agreement
except for those amendments which do not affect the rights of Limited Partners.
9.3.2.2 RESTRICTION ON RIGHT OF LIMITED PARTNERS. A Majority Vote
may not modify this Agreement with respect to the compensation or distributions
to which the General Partner is entitled or which affects the duties of the
General Partner except with the consent of the General Partner, except as
provided in Paragraph 8.6.4 of this Agreement.
9.3.3 MAJORITY VOTE. All matters upon which the Limited Partners may
vote shall require, and the term "Majority Vote" shall mean, the vote or written
consent of 50% or more of all issued Units held by the Limited Partners. Each
Limited Partner shall be entitled to cast one vote for each Unit which that
Limited Partner owns.
9.3.4 PROCEDURE FOR VOTING.
9.3.4.1 NOTICE OF MEETING. The General Partner, at any time, may
call a meeting or a vote without a meeting of the Limited Partners, and shall
call for such meeting or vote and give written notice thereof which will be
given not less than 10 nor more than 60 days following receipt of written
request therefor by Limited Partners holding at least 10% or more of the Units.
The General Partner shall mail, postage-paid, written notice of any such meeting
or vote to all Partners of record as of the date of mailing and to the most
recent addresses shown on the records of the Partnership, which notice shall
include a detailed statement of the action proposed, including a verbatim
statement of the wording of any resolution proposed for adoption by the Limited
Partners and of any proposed amendment to this Agreement and the General
Partner's recommendation with respect to any matters that are to be voted on.
The General Partner shall provide for proxies or written consents which specify
a choice between approval and disapproval of each matter to be acted upon at the
meeting. Notice given in the foregoing manner shall be deemed complete 48 hours
after that notice's deposit by the General Partner in any regular United States
Postal Service depository. All expenses of the meeting or vote and of notice
thereof shall be paid by the Partnership. For a valid Partnership meeting and
quorum there must be in attendance, by person or by proxy, Limited Partners
holding a majority of the Units. Should there be a failure to have such a quorum
at any meeting, then that meeting shall be re-scheduled by those Limited
Partners originally in attendance at that adjourned meeting, for a date certain
and the General Partner shall notify those Limited Partners not in attendance at
that adjourned meeting of the new time, day and place. When obtaining a written
vote on any matter to be voted on without a meeting, a failure to respond within
a specified time, but not less than 10 days, shall constitute a vote of approval
of the General Partner's recommendation with respect thereto.
9.3.4.2 ONE VOTE PER UNIT. A Limited Partner shall be entitled to
cast one vote for each Unit which that Limited Partner owns (i) at a meeting, in
person, by written proxy or by a signed writing directing the manner in which
that Limited Partner desires that his vote be cast; or (ii) without a meeting,
by a signed writing directing the manner in which that Limited Partner desires
that his vote be cast which proxy or writing must be received by the General
Partner prior to the date upon which the votes of Limited Partners of record
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as of the date of such meeting or vote shall be counted. The General
Partner shall not be entitled to vote except to the extent the General Partner
also owns Units as a Limited Partner. The laws of the State of California
pertaining to the validity and use of corporate proxies shall govern the
validity and use of proxies given by Limited Partners.
9.3.4.3 LIMITATIONS OF VOTING RIGHTS. No Limited Partner shall have
the right or power to:
(i) Withdraw or reduce his contribution to the capital of the
Partnership except as a result of the dissolution of the Partnership
or as otherwise provided by law;
(ii) Bring an action for partition against the Partnership;
(iii) Cause the termination and dissolution of the Partnership
by court decree or otherwise, except as set forth in this Agreement;
or
(iv) Demand or receive property other than cash in return for
that Limited Partner's Capital Contribution. Except as provided in
this Agreement, no Limited Partner shall have priority over any other
Limited Partner either as to the return of Capital Contributions or
as to income, gains, losses, deductions, credits or distributions.
Other than upon the termination and dissolution of the Partnership as
provided by this Agreement, there has been no time agreed upon when
the Capital Contribution of each Limited Partner is to be returned.
This Agreement may not be amended without the consent of the Partner
to be adversely affected by any amendment which would:
(a) convert a Limited Partner to a general partner of the
Partnership;
(b) modify the limited liability of a Limited Partner;
(c) alter the interest of the General Partner or the Limited
Partners in the income, gains, losses, deductions, credits or
distributions of the Partnership; or
(d) affect the status of the Partnership as a partnership
for federal income tax purposes.
9.4 ASSIGNMENT OF UNITS.
9.4.1 RIGHT TO ASSIGN. Subject to the provisions of this Section 9.4,
Limited Partners shall have the right to assign one or more Units owned by the
Limited Partners by a duly executed and acknowledged written instrument of
assignment in a form satisfactory to the General Partner, the terms of which are
not in contravention of any of the provisions of this Agreement. However, the
General Partner shall have the right to refuse to allow any such assignment if,
in the opinion of counsel to the Partnership, such assignment would jeopardize
the tax status of the Partnership. A Limited Partner shall notify the General
Partner within 30 days of any assignment or transfer by operation of law of a
beneficial interest in any Units which occurs without a transfer of record
ownership.
9.4.2 QUALIFICATION OF ASSIGNEE. An Assignee shall satisfy the
suitability standards applied to an original subscriber to the Partnership.
However, such suitability standards shall not apply to any Assignee receiving
Units by gift or by operation of law, except when the assigned Units are subject
to a liability owed to the Partnership or to a third party.
9.4.3 DEATH, INCOMPETENCY, BANKRUPTCY OR DISSOLUTION OF A LIMITED
PARTNER. The death, incompetency, bankruptcy or dissolution of a Limited Partner
shall not terminate the Partnership. Upon the death, incompetency or dissolution
of a Limited Partner, the personal representative or successor of such Limited
Partner shall have all the rights of the Limited Partner in the Partnership to
the extent of such Limited Partner's interest therein, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement; and the estate or successor in interest of such
Limited Partner shall be liable for all of such Limited Partner's liabilities as
a Limited Partner, as well as the execution of all documents required to effect
the substitution of such Limited Partner's estate or successor in interest as a
Substituted Limited Partner. Such Limited Partner's estate or successor in
interest, at such time as such successor in interest is legally recognized as
the owner of such Limited Partner's interest,
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shall be a Substituted Limited Partner without the necessity of
complying with the provisions of Section 9.5 of this Agreement. However, during
probate of a deceased Limited Partner's estate and if the Partnership interest
of such deceased Limited Partner is subject to such probate, then during probate
such successor in interest shall be treated as an Assignee and not a Substituted
Limited Partner, but only until such time as probate closes by evidence
satisfactory to the General Partner.
9.4.4. DISTRIBUTIONS. An Assignee shall have no rights as a Limited
Partner, but shall be entitled to receive allocations from the Partnership
attributable to the Units acquired by reason of such assignment from and after
the effective date of the assignment of such Units to such Assignee. However,
the provisions of this Agreement notwithstanding, the Partnership and the
General Partner shall be entitled to treat the assignor of such Units as the
absolute owner thereof in an respects and shall incur no liability for
allocations of income, gains, losses, deductions, credits, distributions or
transmittal of reports and notices required to be given to the Limited Partners,
which are made in good faith to such assignor prior to such time as the written
instrument of assignment has been received by the General Partner and recorded
on the books of the Partnership, or prior to the effective date of such
assignment. The effective date of such assignment of Units, on which the
Assignee shall be deemed an Assignee of record, shall be the first day of the
first complete fiscal quarter following the later of (i) the date set forth on
the written instrument of assignment (unless the date set forth in that written
instrument of assignment is the first day of the fiscal quarter in which event
that date shall be the effective date) or (ii) the date on which the Partnership
has actual notice of the assignment. The allocations and distributions
attributable to the Partnership interest acquired by reason of such assignment
shall be divided among and allocated between the assignor and Assignee of such
interest in proportion to the number of fiscal quarters that each is recognized
by the Partnership as the owner of the transferred Units, based upon the
effective date of the assignment of such interest.
9.4.5 OBLIGATIONS OF A LIMITED PARTNER. An assignment of Units by a
Limited Partner, including assignments of all or less than all rights specified
in this Agreement, shall not relieve the transferor of his duties and
obligations specified in this Agreement, whether occurring prior to or
subsequent to such assignment.
9.5 SUBSTITUTED LIMITED PARTNERS. A Substituted Limited Partner shall
have the rights and powers, and shall be subject to all the restrictions and
liabilities, of the respective assignor, except those liabilities of which that
Substituted Limited Partner was ignorant at the time that Substituted Limited
Partner became a Limited Partner and which could not be ascertained from this
Agreement or from the Certificate of Limited Partnership.
9.5.1 CONDITIONS OF SUBSTITUTION. A Limited Partner may designate an
Assignee as a Substituted Limited Partner, but no Assignee shall have the right
to become a Substituted Limited Partner in place of the respective assignor
unless all of the following conditions are first satisfied:
9.5.1.1 WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT. A duly executed and acknowledged written
instrument of assignment shall have been filed with the Partnership, which
instrument shall set forth the name of the assignor; the name, address and
social security or identification number of the Assignee; the details of the
assignment; the number of Units being assigned and the intention of the assignor
that the Assignee become a Substituted Limited Partner in the assignor's place
and stead to the extent of the assigned Units.
9.5.1.2 FRACTIONAL UNITS. No part of the Partnership interest being
acquired by the Assignee consists of less than 1 Unit, unless that part involves
the entire Partnership interest of the assignor.
9.5.1.3 INSTRUMENTS OF SUBSTITUTION. The assignor and Assignee shall
have executed and acknowledged such instruments as the General Partner may deem
necessary or desirable to effect such substitution including, without
limitation, the written acceptance and adoption by the Assignee of the
provisions of this Agreement, as amended, and the Assignee's execution,
acknowledgment and delivery to the General Partner of a special power of
attorney, the form and content of which are described more completely in Article
13 of this Agreement.
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9.5.1.4 COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES LAWS. The assignment is effected
in compliance with all applicable state and federal securities laws as evidenced
by an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the General Partner.
9.5.1.5 CONSENT OF A GENERAL PARTNER. The written consent of the
General Partner to such substitution shall have been obtained, the granting or
denial of which shall be only in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph
9.4.1 of this Agreement.
9.5.1.6 ASSIGNMENT FEE. An assignment fee shall have been paid to
the Partnership, which shall be equal to $250.
9.5.2 COMMENT TO FUTURE SUBSTITUTED LIMITED PARTNERS. By executing or
adopting this Agreement, each Limited Partner hereby consents to the admission
of additional or Substituted Limited Partners by the General Partner and to any
Assignee becoming a Substituted Limited Partner.
9.5.3 AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE. An Assignee will become a Substituted
Limited Partner when this Agreement or a separate Certificate of Limited
Partnership is appropriately amended and filed in accordance with the provisions
of the California Revised Limited Partnership Act. The General Partner, at least
once each calendar quarter, shall cause this Agreement or any separate
Certificate of Limited Partnership to be amended to specify the admission or
substitution of Limited Partners.
9.6 COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES RULES OR TRANSFERS. No assignment, sale,
transfer, exchange or other disposition of any Units may be made, except in
compliance with the then applicable rules of all appropriate governmental
authorities.
9.7 VOID ASSIGNMENTS. Any assignment, sale, exchange or other transfer in
contravention of any of the provisions of this Article 9 shall be void and
ineffectual, and shall not obligate, or be recognized by, the General Partner or
the Partnership.
10. BOOKS, RECORDS, ACCOUNTING AND REPORTS.
10.1 RECORDS. The General Partner shall keep at its office in California
the following Partnership documents:
(i) A current list of the complete name and last known business or
residence address of each Partner, together with the contribution and share
in profits and losses of each Partner;
(ii) A copy of the Certificate of Limited Partnership and all
certificates of amendment and executed copies of any powers of attorney
pursuant to which any certificate has been executed;
(iii) Copies of the Partnership's federal, state and local income tax
or informational returns and reports, if any, for the 6 most recent years;
(iv) Copies of the original copy of this Agreement and all amendments
to this Agreement;
(v) Financial statements of the Partnership for the 6 most recent
years; and
(vi) The Partnership's books and records as those books and records
relate to the internal affairs of the Partnership for at least the current
and 3 most recent years.
10.2 DELIVERY TO LIMITED PARTNER AND IMPACTION.
(i) Upon the request of a Limited Partner, the General Partner shall
deliver promptly to the requesting Limited Partner, at the expense of the
Partnership, a copy of the information to be maintained required by the
provisions of subsections (i), (ii), and (iv) of Section 10.1 of this
Agreement.
(ii) Each Limited Partner has the right, upon reasonable request, to
each of the following:
(a) inspect and copy during normal business hours any of the
Partnership records required to be maintained by Section 10.1 of this
Agreement; and
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(b) obtain from the General Partner, promptly after becoming
available, a copy of the Partnership's federal, state and local income
tax or informational returns for each year.
(iii) The General Partner shall send to each Partner within 60 days
after the end of each year, the information necessary for that Partner to
complete that Partner's federal and state income tax or informational
returns, and if requested by a Limited Partner, there shall be included
within that 60 day period a copy of the Partnership's federal, state and
local income tax or informational returns for the ear in which such request
is made.
10.3 ANNUAL REPORTS. The General Partner will provide to the Limited
Partners, within 60 days after the end of each year of the Partnership, a report
containing:
(i) A balance sheet for the Partnership as of the end of that year,
which may be unaudited;
(ii) A statement of income for the Partnership for that year, which
may be unaudited;
(iii) A statement of changes in financial position for the Partnership
for that year, which may be unaudited; and
(iv) Other pertinent information regarding the Partnership and the
activities of the Partnership during the period covered by that report.
10.4 TAX ALLOCATIONS. To the extent permitted by law, (i) all income,
gains and losses shall be allocated to the Partners to whom the revenues
resulting in the realization of such income, gains or losses are allocated
pursuant to Article 6 of this Agreement; (ii) all deductions and credits shall
be allocated to the Partners charged with the expenditures causing such
deductions or credits to occur; and (iii) all recapture of previously taken
deductions or credits shall be allocated to the Partners to whom such deductions
or credits were allocated. To the extent permitted by law, all items of tax
preference for federal income tax purposes shall be allocated to the Partners
credited with the revenues resulting in the realization of the income, gains or
loss causing such items of tax preference to occur or charged with the
expenditure causing the deductions or credits to which such items of tax
preference are attributable to occur. To the extent permitted by law, each
Partner shall be entitled to that Partner's distributive share of Partnership
income, gain, loss, deduction or credit, or items of tax preference in computing
that Partner's taxable income or tax liability, to the exclusion of any other
Partner.
10.5 TAX ELECTIONS. Upon the assignment of all or part of a Limited
Partner's interest in the Partnership or upon the death of an individual Limited
Partner, or upon the distribution of any Partnership property to any Partner,
the Partnership, at the General Partner's option, may file an election in
accordance with applicable regulations, to cause the basis of the Partnership
property to be adjusted for federal income tax purposes as provided by Sections
734, 743 and 754 of the Code; similar elections pursuant to the provisions of
state and local income tax laws, at the General Partner's option, may be made.
10.6 RECORDS OF ADJUSTED TAX BASIS. To the extent the General Partner is
required to determine the adjusted tax basis of any Partnership property with
respect to which the Code requires records of such adjusted tax basis be kept
and maintained by the Limited Partners, the General Partner may request
information regarding such adjusted tax basis from the Limited Partners, in
writing, and the Limited Partners shall furnish such information to the General
Partner within 90 days after said request is mailed by the General Partner.
10.7 TAX RETURN. The General Partner, at the expense of the Partnership,
shall cause income tax returns for the Partnership to be prepared and timely
filed with the appropriate authorities.
10.8 DEFENSE OF CERTAIN CLAIMS. The General Partner, at the expense of the
Partnership, shall have the right to assume the defense of any claims made by
the Internal Revenue Service to the extent that such claims occur because of and
relate to the Partnership's business or investment activities, and in connection
therewith, to retain and pay counsel chosen by the General Partner, in the
General Partner's sole discretion. In no case, however, shall the Partnership be
liable for any additional tax payable by a Partner or for any costs of separate
counsel chosen by such Partner to represent such Partner with respect to any
aspects of such defense.
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10.9 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS. The General Partner will maintain a separate
capital account for each Partner which shall be credited with (i) such Partner's
contributions to the capital of the Partnership and (ii) such Partner's
allocable share of Partnership revenues, gains and income, and which shall be
charged with (a) such Partner's allocable share of Partnership costs, expenses
and losses and (b) the amount of any distributions made to such Partner. The
books and records of the Partnership shall include such other separate and
additional accounts for each Partner as shall be necessary to specify accurately
the rights and interests of the Partners.
10.10 SPECIAL REPORTS. The General Partner, at the expense of the
Partnership, shall cause to be prepared and timely filed with the appropriate
federal and state agencies all reports required to be filed with such agencies
pursuant to the then current applicable laws, rules and regulations. Those
reports shall be prepared on the accounting or reporting basis required by those
appropriate regulatory agencies.
11. CERTAIN OPPORTUNITIES.
The General Partner, any Limited Partner, any Affiliate, any partner,
shareholder, officer, director or employee thereof, or any person owning a legal
or beneficial interest therein, may engage in or possess an interest in any
other business or venture of every nature and description, independently or with
others including those which may be the same as or similar to the Partnership's
business and in direct competition with the Partnership. Neither the Partnership
nor any Partner shall have any right, by virtue of this
Agreement, in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived
therefrom. Except when the General Partner has an overriding fiduciary
obligation to the Partnership, the General Partner and its Affiliates will have
no duty or obligation to submit to the Partnership any business opportunities
which may come to them or be presented to any person in which they may be in any
way interested, and the General Partner and any of its Affiliates shall have the
right to take for their own accounts (individually or otherwise) or to recommend
to others any such investment opportunity.
12. TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND DISSOLUTION OF THE PARTNERSHIP.
12.1 TERMINATION. The Partnership shall be terminated and dissolved in
accordance with the California Revised Limited Partnership Act or upon the
earliest to occur of the following:
(i) The death, retirement (provided there has been 90 days prior
written notice to the Limited Partners), expulsion, insanity, adjudication
of bankruptcy or insolvency, or the dissolution of the General Partner
unless any remaining general partners of the Partnership elect to continue
the business of the Partnership;
(ii) A vote pursuant to Section 9.3 of this Agreement to remove the
General Partner, unless all of the Limited Partners elect a substitute
general partner of the Partnership;
(iii) A vote pursuant to Section 9.3 of this Agreement in favor of
termination and dissolution of the Partnership;
(iv) The expiration of the term of the Partnership; or
(v) The sale of all or substantially all of the Partnership assets and
the receipt of the final payment of the purchase price therefor.
12.2 DISTRIBUTIONS. Upon the termination and dissolution of the
Partnership for any reason, the General Partner (or a substituted general
partner of the Partnership elected by a Majority Vote) shall take complete
account of the Partnership's assets and liabilities and those assets shall be
liquidated as promptly as is consistent with obtaining the fair value thereof,
and the proceeds therefrom, to the extent sufficient to pay the Partnership's
obligations with respect thereto, shall be applied and distributed in the
following order:
(i) To the payment and discharge of all of the Partnership debts and
liabilities to persons other than Partners (or former Partners) including
the payment of promissory notes assigned and guaranteed by the Partnership
and the expenses of liquidation;
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(ii) To the payment and discharge of any loans and advances made by
Partners (or former Partners) to the Partnership;
(iii) To the Partners in accordance with their respective Partnership
interests to the extent of the positive balances in their respective
capital accounts established pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.9 of
this Agreement; and
(iv) The balance of such proceeds, if any, shall be distributed to the
Partners in accordance with their interests in the Partnership, except that
if a Partner shall have a debit balance in that Partner's capital account,
that Partner shall not receive distributions until the amount which would
otherwise be distributed to that Partner is equal to the debit balance,
after which that Partner shall then receive distributions in accordance
with that Partner's interest in the Partnership, but that Partner shall not
receive the amounts which were not distributed to that Partner because of
such debit balance.
12.3 NO RECOURSE AGAINST THE GENERAL PARTNER. Each Limited Partner shall
have that Limited Partner's Capital Contribution returned only from the assets
of the Partnership, and if the Partnership assets remaining after the payment or
discharge of the debts and liabilities of the Partnership are insufficient to
return that Capital Contribution, that Limited Partner shall have no recourse
against the General Partner, any of its Affiliates, or any other Limited
Partner.
12.4 WAIVER OF RIGHT TO COURT DECREE OF DISSOLUTION. All Partners agree
that irreparable damage would be done to the goodwill and reputation of the
Partnership if any Partner should bring an action in court to divide the
Partnership in any way other than as provided in this Agreement. Care has been
taken in this Agreement to provide what the Partners determined are fair and
just methods of liquidation of the interests of all Partners. Accordingly, each
Partner hereby waives and renounces that Partner's rights to a court decree of
dissolution, to seek the appointment by the court of a liquidator for the
Partnership, to maintain an action for partition with respect to that Partner's
undivided interest in the Partnership properties or to compel any sale of such
properties.
12.5 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. The General Partner shall cause (i) a Notice
of Dissolution to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in each
county where the Partnership business was regularly conducted and to be mailed
to each of the Partnership's creditors, (ii) an affidavit of publication and of
mailing to be filed with the appropriate County Clerk or Clerks within 30 days
after the publication, and (iii) the Certificate of Limited Partnership to be
canceled.
12.6 GENERAL PARTNER'S DISCRETION. The winding up and dissolution of the
Partnership's affairs and the liquidation and distribution of the Partnership's
assets shall be conducted exclusively by the General Partner (or a trustee, if
one is appointed), which is authorized to do any and all acts and things
authorized by law for these purposes. Distributions in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 12.6 or upon termination and dissolution of the
Partnership will (i) constitute a complete return to the Partners of their
interests in the profits of the Partnership and their Capital Contributions,
(ii) a final and complete distribution to the Partners of all their interests in
the Partnership properties, and (iii) a final termination and settlement of any
and all of the Partners' other interests in the Partnership.
12.7 PURCHASE BY GENERAL PARTNER. The General Partner, if the General
Partner so desires, may purchase Partnership properties upon liquidation of the
Partnership at the greater of the highest bona fide independent offer received
or if no such offer is received, the market value thereof.
13. SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY.
13.1 EXECUTION OF SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY. Concurrently with the
execution or written acceptance and adoption of the provisions of this
Agreement, each Limited Partner shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
General Partner a special power of attorney in a form acceptable to the General
Partner in which the General Partner is substituted and appointed as the
attorney-in-fact for such Limited Partner, with power and authority to act in
such Limited Partner's name and on such Limited Partner's behalf to execute,
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acknowledge and swear to in the execution, acknowledgment and filing of
documents, which shall include, by way of illustration but not of limitation,
the following:
(i) This Agreement, any separate Certificate of Limited Partnership,
Fictitious Business Name Statements, as well as any amendments to the
foregoing which, pursuant to the laws of the State of California or the
laws of any other jurisdiction, are required to be filed or which the
General Partner deems it advisable to file;
(ii) Any other instrument or document which may be required to be
filed by the Partnership pursuant to the laws of any state or by any
governmental agency, or which the General Partner deems it advisable to
file;
(iii) Any instrument or document which may be required to effect the
continuation of the Partnership, the admission of an additional or
Substituted Limited Partner, or the dissolution and termination of the
Partnership (provided such continuation, admission or dissolution and
termination are in accordance with the terms of this Agreement), or to
specify any reductions in the amounts of the Capital Contributions of the
Limited Partners; and
(iv) Any documents, including escrow instructions and amendments,
loan documents, including promissory notes, guarantees, deeds of trust and
other security agreements and mortgages, agreements to sell, purchase,
lease, rent and exchange Partnership assets or any interests therein,
contracts, including management contracts, and all other agreements and
documents necessary to carry out the business of the Partnership and the
Partners.
13.2 INCIDENTS OF SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY. The power of attorney hereby
granted by each Limited Partner to the General Partner shall be on the following
terms and conditions.
13.2.1 COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST. That power of attorney is a special
power of attorney coupled with an interest, is irrevocable, shall survive the
death or insanity (or, in the case of a Limited Partner that is a corporation,
association, partnership, joint venture or trust, shall survive the merger,
dissolution or other termination of the existence) of such Limited Partner; and
is limited to those matters herein set forth.
13.2.2 ACTION BY GENERAL PARTNER. That power of attorney may be
exercised by the General Partner acting alone for each Limited Partner by a
facsimile signature of the General Partner (or one of its officers, employees or
agents), or by listing all of the Limited Partners executing any instrument with
a single signature of the General Partner (or one of its officers, employees or
agents) acting as attorney-in-fact for all of the Limited Partners.
13.2.3 SURVIVAL OF ASSIGNMENT. That power of attorney shall survive an
assignment by a Limited Partner of all or any portion of such Limited Partner's
interest in the Partnership when an Assignee has been approved by the General
Partner for admission to the Partnership as a Substituted Limited Partner, the
special power of attorney shall survive such assignment for the sole purpose of
enabling the General Partner to execute, acknowledge and file any instrument or
document necessary to effect such substitution, as well as for the purposes set
forth in Section 13.1 of this Agreement.
13.2.4 ADDITIONAL ACTION. The power of attorney includes the authority
to take any additional action which the General Partner shall consider necessary
or convenient in connection with any of the powers granted to the General
Partner pursuant to Article 8 of this Agreement, hereby giving the General
Partner complete power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the foregoing
as completely as such Limited Partner might or could do if personally present,
and hereby ratifying and confirming all that the General Partner shall lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
13.3 AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL PARTNER. The General Partner shall be
authorized to obligate the Partnership by the signature of its officers alone,
and a facsimile signature is as effective as an actual signature.
13.4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY LIMITED PARTNERS. Each of the Limited Partners is
aware that the terms and conditions of this Agreement permit certain amendments
of this Agreement to be effected and certain other
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actions to be taken or omitted by or with respect to the Partnership, in each
case with the approval of less than all of the Limited Partners. Such actions
include, without limitation, substitution of the General Partner. If, as and
when (i) an amendment of this Agreement is proposed or an action is proposed to
be taken or omitted by or with respect to the Partnership which requires,
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the approval of a specified
percentage in interest (but less than all) of the Partners; (ii) Partners
holding the percentage of Partnership interests in the Partnership specified in
this Agreement as being required for such amendment or action have approved such
amendment or action in the manner contemplated by this Agreement; and (iii) a
Limited Partner has failed or refused to approve such amendment or action
(hereinafter referred to as a "Non-Consenting Limited Partner"), each
Non-Consenting Limited Partner agrees that each special attorney-in-fact
specified above, with complete power of substitution, is hereby authorized,
empowered and instructed to execute, acknowledge, make, swear to, verify,
deliver, record, file and publish, for and on behalf of such Non-Consenting
Limited Partner, and in such Non-Consenting Limited Partner's name, place and
stead, any and all instruments and documents which may be necessary or
appropriate to permit such amendment to be lawfully made or action lawfully
taken or omitted. Each consenting Limited Partner and Non-Consenting Limited
Partner is completely aware that such Limited Partner and each other Limited
Partner have executed this special power of attorney, and that each Limited
Partner will rely on the effectiveness of this special power of attorney with an
anticipation of the orderly administration of the Partnership's affairs.
14. LIABILITY OF AND INDEMNIFICATION OF A GENERAL PARTNER.
14.1 ACTION BY THIRD PARTIES. Except as provided in Section 8.5 of this
Agreement, the General Partner shall not be liable to the Partnership or the
Limited Partners, or any of them, for any failure of any third parties to comply
with the obligations of those parties pursuant to any agreements; however, the
foregoing shall not apply if the General Partner was grossly negligent or failed
to act in good faith in contracting with any such third party.
14.2 ACTION INVOLVING GENERAL PARTNER. Except as provided in Section 8.5
of this Agreement, in any threatened, pending or completed action, lawsuit or
proceeding to which the General Partner (including employees, Affiliates,
officers or directors of the General Partner) was or is a party or is threatened
to be made a party by reason of the fact that it is or was the General Partner
(other than an action by or in the right of the Partnership), the Partnership
shall indemnify the General Partner (including employees, Affiliates, officers
or directors of the General Partner) against all costs and expenses, including
attorneys' fees, costs of investigation, fines, judgments and amounts paid in
settlement, actually and reasonably incurred by the General Partner (or such
employee, Affiliates, officer or director) in connection with such action,
lawsuit or proceeding if the General Partner (or such employee, Affiliates,
officer or director) acted in good faith in a manner it reasonably believed to
be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Partnership; provided, that
however, the General Partner's conduct does not constitute negligence,
misconduct, or a breach of fiduciary obligation to the Limited Partners and, in
the case of a criminal proceeding, the General Partner had no reasonable cause
to believe its conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, lawsuit or
proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of nolo
contendere or its equivalent shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the
General Partner (or such employee, Affiliate, officer or director) did not act
in good faith and in a manner which the General Partner reasonably believed to
be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Partnership or that the
General Partner had reasonable cause to believe that its conduct was unlawful.
The General Partner (and the employees, Affiliates, officers or directors of the
General Partner) shall not be indemnified by the Partnership with respect to any
expense relating to any claim, issue or matter as to which such General Partner
(or employee, Affiliate, officer or director of the General Partner) shall have
been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct.
14.3 DEFENSE OF ACTION. Except as provided in Section 8.5 of this
Agreement, to the extent that the General Partner (including any employees,
Affiliates, officers or directors of the General Partner) has been successful on
the merits or otherwise in defense of an action, suit or proceeding referred to
in Sections 14.2 or 14.3 of this Agreement, or in defense of any claim, issue or
matter therein, the Partnership shall indemnify the General Partner (or such
employee, Affiliates, officer or director) against all costs and expenses,
including
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attorneys' fees and costs of investigation, actually and reasonably incurred by
it in connection therewith. An indemnification pursuant to the provisions of
Sections 14.2 and 14.3 of this Agreement, unless ordered by a court, shall be
made by the Partnership only as authorized in the specific case and only upon a
determination by independent legal counsel in a written opinion that
indemnification of the General Partner (or such employee, Affiliates, officer or
director) is proper in the circumstances because the General Partner has met the
applicable standard of conduct set forth in Sections 14.2 and 14.3 above.
14.4 SATISFACTION OF JUDGMENTS. Except as provided in Section 8.5 of this
Agreement, all judgments against the Partnership and the General Partner,
wherein the General Partner (including any employee, Affiliate, officer or
director of the General Partner) is entitled to indemnification, must first be
satisfied from Partnership assets before the General Partner is responsible for
those judgments.
14.5 RESTRICTION ON INDEMNIFICATION. Except as provided in Section 8.5 of
this Agreement, notwithstanding Section 14.1 of this Agreement, neither the
General Partner nor any officer, Affiliate, director, employee, agent,
subsidiary or assign of the General Partner or of the Partnership shall be
indemnified against any liability, loss or damage incurred by the General
Partner in connection with (i) any claim or settlement involving allegations
that the Securities Act of 1933 was violated by the General Partner or by any
such other person unless (a) the General Partner or other persons seeking
indemnification are successful in defending such action, and (b) such
indemnification is specifically approved by a court of competent jurisdiction
which shall have been advised as to the current positions of, both, the
Securities and Exchange Commission and the California Commissioner of
Corporations regarding indemnification for violations of securities law or (ii)
any liability imposed by law, including liability for fraud, bad faith or
negligence, and the provisions of Paragraph 8.5.1 of this Agreement have been
satisfied by the General Partner.
IN THE OPINION OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, INDEMNIFICATION FOR
LIABILITIES OCCURRING PURSUANT TO THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 IS AGAINST PUBLIC
POLICY AS EXPRESSED IN THAT ACT AND, THEREFORE, IS UNENFORCEABLE.
15. MISCELLANEOUS.
15.1 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts,
and all counterparts so executed shall constitute one agreement, obligating all
Partners, notwithstanding that all of the Partners are not signatory to the
original or the counterpart.
15.2 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. The terms and provisions of this Agreement
shall obligate and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of
the respective Partners.
15.3 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with,
and governed by, the laws of the State of California.
15.4 VOID PROVISION. In the event any part of this Agreement is declared
by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void, such part shall be deemed
severed from the remainder of the Agreement and the balance of the Agreement
shall remain in effect.
15.5 NOTICES. All notices pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing
and shall be given to the Partner entitled thereto by personal service or by
certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, except that the notice
of any meeting or the furnishing of any financial statement to the Partners may
be done by regular mail. All notices sent by mail shall be posted to the address
maintained by the Partnership for such person or at such other address as that
person may verify in writing. Any notice pursuant to the provisions of this
Agreement shall be deemed received after 24 hours from the date and time of
postmark if such notice is deposited with the United States mail pursuant to the
above (if mailed) or when personally received if the mail service is not used.
15.6 CAPTIONS. Titles or captions contained in this Agreement are inserted
only as a matter of convenience and for reference. Such titles and captions in
no way define, limit, extend or describe the scope of this Agreement nor the
intent of any provision hereof.
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15.7 CONTEXT. Whenever required by the context hereof, the singular shall
include the plural, and vice-versa; the masculine gender shall include the
feminine and neuter genders, and vice-versa; and the word "person" shall include
any natural person, partnership, estate, corporation, trust, cooperative,
association or other legal entity.
15.8 LEGEND. Any certificate, document or instrument evidencing any right
or interest of any Partner shall bear such legend or legends as may be required
to comply with applicable requirements of any governmental authority.
15.9 FORCE MAJEURE. The General Partner shall not be liable for any loss
or damage to Partnership property caused by strikes, labor troubles, riots,
fires, blowouts, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, acts of a public enemy,
insurrections, acts of God, failure to carry out the provisions of this
Agreement because of provisions of law or rules or regulations promulgated by
any governmental agency or any demand or acquisition of any government, or from
any other cause beyond the control of the General Partner.
15.10 ATTORNEY'S FEES. In the event that any legal action is instituted
between the parties occurring because of this Agreement, the prevailing party or
parties therein shall be entitled to recover a reasonable allowance for that
party's attorneys' fees and court expenses, to be fixed and determined by the
court in which said action is filed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the General Partner and the Limited Partners have
entered into and executed this Agreement effective the dates the General Partner
accepts the subscriptions of the Limited Partners.
General Partner: Limited Partner:
By: Performance Development, Inc.,
a California corporation
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By:
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Its: President
By:
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Its: Secretary
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