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The 1998 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 620
Partnership Laws
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620.127  Voting rights of general partners.--

(1)  A partnership agreement may provide for classes or groups of general partners having such relative rights, powers, and duties as the partnership agreement may provide, and may, in the manner provided in the partnership agreement, make provision for the future creation of additional classes or groups of general partners having such relative rights, powers, and duties as may from time to time be established, including rights, powers, and duties senior to existing classes and groups of general partners.

(2)  The partnership agreement may grant to all or certain identified general partners or a specified class or group of the general partners the right to vote on a per capita or any other basis, separately or with all or any class or group of the limited partners or the general partners, on any matter.

(3)  A partnership agreement which grants a right to vote may set forth provisions relating to notice of the time, place, or purpose of any meeting at which any matter is to be voted on by any general partner, waiver of any such notice, action by consent without a meeting, the establishment of a record date, quorum requirements, voting in person or by proxy, or any other matter with respect to the exercise of any such right to vote.

History.--s. 23, ch. 86-263.