In some instances the amount of damages may be nominal since the withdrawal may not seriously injure the LLC or its operations. The fiduciary duties listed in Section 33-43-409 are the exclusive fiduciary duties that are imposed on members or managers. Section 33-43-1018. (a) A limited liability company shall reimburse for any payment made and indemnify for any debt, obligation, or other liability incurred by a member of a member-managed company or the manager of a manager-managed company in the course of the member's or manager's activities on behalf of the company, if, in making the payment or incurring the debt, obligation, or other liability, the member or manager complied with the duties stated in Sections 33-43-405 and 33-43-409, as may be modified by Section 33-43-110(d). (d) A member in a member-managed limited liability company or a manager-managed limited liability company shall discharge the duties under this chapter or under the operating agreement and exercise any rights consistently with the contractual obligation of good faith and fair dealing. (B) if the company declines to provide any demanded information, the company's reasons for declining. If there is no office in that county, a notice of name change must be filed with the clerk of court of the county in which that real property is located. (c)(1) If a limited liability company that owns real property in South Carolina is converted to a corporation, the newly-named corporation must file a notice of that name change in the office of the register of deeds of the county in South Carolina in which the real property is located. (c) An agreement of conversion must include the terms and conditions of the conversion of the interests of members of a limited liability company into interests in the converted limited partnership or the cash or other consideration to be paid or delivered as a result of the conversion of the interest of the members, or both. (b) An individual who signs a record authorized or required to be filed under this chapter affirms under penalty of perjury that the information stated in the record is accurate. (4) the address of the company or foreign company to which the agent will send the notice required by subsection (c). A transferable interest is personal property. (d) Subject to Section 33-43-805, this section applies to a foreign limited liability company transacting business in this State which has a certificate of authority to transact business in this State or which has applied for a certificate of authority. (a) A foreign limited liability company transacting business in this State may not maintain an action or proceeding in this State unless it has a certificate of authority to transact business in this State. Applying for a certificate of authority is not an admission of tax liability. (c) If a limited liability company does not have sufficient surplus to comply with subsection (b)(1), any surplus must be distributed among the owners of transferable interests in proportion to the value of their respective unreturned contributions. (c) Service of any process, notice, or demand on the Secretary of State as agent for a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company may be made by delivering to the Secretary of State duplicate copies of the process, notice, or demand. Section 33-43-1017. (a) A record delivered to the Secretary of State for filing under this chapter must be signed as follows: (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (2) through (3), a record signed on behalf of a limited liability company must be signed by a person authorized by the company. Service on the Secretary of State under this subsection must be made in the same manner and has the same consequences as in Section 33-43-116(c) and (d). In a dispute concerning the reasonableness of a restriction under this subsection, the company has the burden of proving reasonableness. Chapter 44, Title 33 of the 1976 Code is repealed. (b) The failure of a foreign limited liability company to have a certificate of authority to transact business in this State does not impair the validity of a contract or act of the company or prevent the company from defending an action or proceeding in this State. (3) a misrepresentation has been made of a material matter on any application, report, affidavit, or other record submitted by the company pursuant to this chapter. S a. (11) 'Member-managed limited liability company' means a limited liability company that is not a manager-managed limited liability company. The Uniform LLC Act and other similar business acts (ULPA) provide for a ninety consecutive-day period. (13) 'Organizer' means a person that acts under Section 33-43-201 to form a limited liability company. However, because the parties to a long-term, relational contract cannot anticipate or reduce all important terms to well-defined obligations, the contractual duty of good faith and fair dealing imposed by Section 33-43-409(d) is mandatory and provides judges with the equitable power to sanction opportunistic conduct. (g) Except as otherwise provided in Section 33-43-602(4)(B), when a member transfers a transferable interest, the transferor retains the rights of a member other than the interest in distributions transferred and retains all duties and obligations of a member. (b) A South Carolina limited liability company that becomes a foreign limited liability company consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State to enforce any debt, obligation, or other liability owed by the domesticating company, if, before the domestication, the domesticating company was subject to suit in this State on the debt, obligation, or other liability. Recently, a drafting committee was formed in South Carolina and charged with reviewing the 2006 Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act for adoption in South Carolina. (b) A statement of resignation takes effect on the earlier of: (1) the thirty-first day after the day on which it is filed by the secretary of State; or. (a) A partnership or limited partnership may be converted to a limited liability company pursuant to this section. (8) if the surviving entity is not a limited liability company, an agreement that the surviving entity may be served with process in this State and is subject to liability in any action or proceeding for the enforcement of any liability or obligation of any limited liability company previously subject to suit in this State which is to merge, and for the enforcement, as provided in this chapter, of the right of members of any limited liability company to receive payment for their interest against the surviving entity. It is very important that members understand the impact of this section and provide by contract or other arrangement, if needed, methods to protect themselves. A member may maintain a derivative action to enforce a right of a limited liability company if: (1) the member first makes a demand on the other members in a member-managed limited liability company, or the managers of a manager-managed limited liability company, requesting that they cause the company to bring an action to enforce the right, and the managers or other members do not bring the action within a reasonable time; or. (19) Application Certificate of Authority, Foreign LLC (Section 33-43-802): $110.00. (D) the person is a limited liability company or partnership that has been dissolved and whose business is being wound up; (5) on application by the company, the person is expelled as a member by judicial order because the person: (A) has engaged, or is engaging, in wrongful conduct that has adversely and materially affected, or will adversely and materially affect, the company's activities; (B) has willfully or persistently committed, or is willfully and persistently committing, a material breach of the operating agreement or the person's existing duties or obligations under Section 33-43-409; or. The resignation does not affect any contractual rights the company or foreign company has against the agent or that the agent has against the company or foreign company. Section 33-43-707. South Carolina law requires an LLC to obtain all necessary licenses and permits before starting operations. (4) Subsection (f) applies only to the members. For example, if the LLC is in the business of developing and selling condominium units, a recorded statement of authority will be beneficial to those handling the routine closings. (iii) a duly recorded deed of conveyance to the newly-named limited liability company. Section 33-43-104. (d) A transferable interest may be evidenced by a certificate of the interest issued by the limited liability company in a record, and, subject to this section, the interest represented by the certificate may be transferred by a transfer of the certificate. South Carolina may have more current or accurate information. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a derivative action under Section 33-43-902 may be maintained only by a person that is a member at the time the action is commenced and remains a member while the action continues. (2) in a manager-managed limited liability company: (A) by a majority of the managers not named as defendants or plaintiffs in the proceeding; and. Section 33-43-408. About South Park Relive the dawn of the South Park era, with legendary episodes of the groundbreaking, Emmy Award-winning animated classic. (a) A record authorized or required to be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing under this chapter must be captioned to describe the record's purpose, be in a medium permitted by the Secretary of State, and be delivered to the Secretary of State. Document Path: l:\council\bills\cc\15973sd21.docx, Introduced in the House on February 23, 2021 SC Code 33-44-203 (2012) What's This? This phrase, which is not in the Uniform Act, is intended to clarify that the reference to exclusive remedy refers only to the remedies as set forth in Chapter 44, Title 33 and that any and all remedies provided to creditors of a member or as to the rights and powers of a bankruptcy trustee or court appointed receiver as to a member are preserved and will continue. (c) An agreement of conversion must include the terms and conditions of the conversion of the interests of members of a limited liability company into interests in the converted corporation or the cash or other consideration to be paid or delivered as a result of the conversion of the interest of the members, or both. Section 33-43-7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 33-43-103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. (b) If a derivative action under Section 33-43-902 is successful in whole or in part, the court may award the plaintiff reasonable expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees and costs, from the recovery of the limited liability company. (c) If within sixty days after service of the copy pursuant to subsection (b) a limited liability company does not correct each ground for dissolution or demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the Secretary of State that each ground determined by the Secretary of State does not exist, the Secretary of State shall dissolve the company administratively by preparing, signing, and filing a declaration of dissolution that states the grounds for dissolution. LLC members and managers who disclose that they are contracting on an LLC's behalf are not liable for a breach because they are not parties to the contractBonly the LLC itself is. (5) except as prohibited by other law, all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of every limited liability company and other entity that is a party to a merger vest in the surviving entity. (3) Within ten days after receiving a demand pursuant to paragraph (2)(B), the company shall in a record inform the member that made the demand: (A) of the information that the company will provide in response to the demand and when and where the company will provide the information; and. Subsection (a) of this Section 33-43-404 provides that distributions shall be made equally among members and dissociated members. Section 33-43-207. The predecessor statute, the Act of 1996, also permitted, as does this act, the operating agreement to be oral. (a) On application by a judgment creditor of a member or transferee, a court may enter a charging order against the transferable interest of the judgment debtor for the unsatisfied amount of the judgment. (1) all property owned by the converting limited liability company vests in the limited partnership; (2) all debts, liabilities and other obligations of the converting limited liability company continue as obligations of the limited partnership; (4) except as prohibited by the law, all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of the converting limited liability company vest in the limited partnership; and. Section 33-43-304 also provides no protection where the member's conduct injures another member or the LLC. In the LLC Act, if a member of an at-will LLC is dissociated, the LLC must repurchase that members interest in the LLC. (17) Statement of Termination (Section 33-43-702): $10.00. (d) Unless otherwise agreed, a merger of a limited liability company that is not the surviving entity in the merger does not require the limited liability company to wind up its business under this chapter or pay its liabilities and distribute its assets pursuant to this chapter. (f) This chapter does not deprive any member or transferee of the benefit of any exemption laws applicable to the member's or transferee's transferable interest. This chapter may be cited as the 'Uniform Limited Liability Company Act of 2021'. Existing LLCs, formed under the former law, should consider whether to provide in their operating agreements that withdrawing members will be entitled to have their interests redeemed by the LLC. (19) 'Transfer' includes an assignment, conveyance, deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, gift, and transfer by operation of law. (a) After a plan of domestication is approved, the domesticating company, the company that effects a domestication pursuant to Sections 33-43-1013 through 33-43-1017, shall deliver to the Secretary of State for filing articles of domestication, which must include: (1) a statement, as the case may be, that the company has been domesticated from or into another jurisdiction; (2) the name of the domesticating company and the jurisdiction of its original governing statute; (3) the name of the resulting domesticated company and the jurisdiction of its governing statute; (4) the date the domestication is effective under the governing statute of the resulting domesticated company; (5) if the domesticating company was a South Carolina limited liability company, a statement that the resulting domestication was approved as required by this chapter; (6) if the domesticating company was a foreign limited liability company, a statement that the domestication was approved as required by the governing statute of the other jurisdiction; and. (24) Certificate of Limited Partnership of a Limited Liability Company that Converts into a Limited Partnership (Section 33-43-1006): $10.00. (3) the company does not have a registered agent in this State for sixty consecutive days. (3) the changes the amendment makes to the certificate as most recently amended or restated. Such recorded certified statement of authority is conclusive in favor of a person that gives value in reliance on the grant without knowledge to the contrary, except to the extent that when the person gives value: (1) the statement has been canceled or restrictively amended under subsection (b) and a certified copy of the cancellation or restrictive amendment has been recorded in the register of deeds or clerk of court; or. (4) The purpose of this subitem is to establish record notice pursuant to Chapter 7, Title 30. (1) all property owned by the converting limited liability company vests in the partnership; (2) all debts, liabilities and other obligations of the converting limited liability company continue as obligations of the partnership; (4) except as prohibited by the law, all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of the converting limited liability company vest in the partnership; (5) except as otherwise provided in the agreement of conversion pursuant to Section 33-43-1008(c), all the members of the converting limited liability company continue as general partners of the partnership in accord with the agreement of conversion.