Section 14-8-62. Limited liability partnership election; recording; fees; contents; procedures and effect; cancellation; dissolution of partnership; amendment of certificate to comply with name requirements.

   (a) To become and to continue as a limited liability partnership, a partnership shall record in the office of the clerk of the superior court of any county in which the partnership has an office a limited liability partnership election. Such election shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept for that purpose, which may be the book in which are recorded statements of partnership recorded pursuant to Code Section 14-8-10.1, and open to public inspection. As a prerequisite to such filing, the clerk of each such registry may collect a fee in the amount of the fee then allowed for the filing of statements of partnership. A limited liability partnership election shall state:

   (1) The name of the partnership, which must comply with Code Section 14-8-63;

   (2) The business, profession, or other activity in which the partnership engages;

   (3) That the partnership thereby elects to be a limited liability partnership;

   (4) That such election has been duly authorized; and

   (5) Any other matters the partnership determines to include therein.

(b) Subject to any contrary agreement among the partners, the election shall be executed by a majority of the partners or by one or more partners authorized to execute an election.

(c) A partnership becomes a limited liability partnership at the time of the recording of the election or at such later date or time, if any, as is stated in the election and continues to be a limited liability partnership until a cancellation of limited liability partnership election, which states that it has been duly authorized, is:

   (1) Subject to any contrary agreement among the partners, executed by a majority of the partners or by one or more partners authorized to execute such a cancellation; and

   (2) Recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of each county in which the partnership recorded a limited liability partnership election.

(d) The status of a partnership as a limited liability partnership shall not be affected by changes, after the recording of a limited liability partnership election, in the information stated in the election.

(e) The fact that a limited liability partnership election has been recorded as required by this Code section is notice that the partnership is a limited liability partnership.

(f) If a limited liability partnership is dissolved and its business continued without liquidation of the partnership's affairs, the new partnership shall succeed to the old partnership's election to become a limited liability partnership and shall continue to be a limited liability partnership until cancellation of such election.

(g) A limited partnership organizing under or subject to Chapter 9 of this title may become and continue as a limited liability partnership if its certificate of limited partnership specifies a name which complies with subsection (b) of Code Section 14-8-63 and otherwise complies with the name requirements of Code Section 14-9-102 and includes in its certificate of limited partnership a statement that the limited partnership is a limited liability partnership. Subject to any contrary agreement among the partners, an amendment to become a limited liability partnership by an existing limited partnership shall be approved by all of the partners. A limited partnership becomes a limited liability partnership at the time its certificate which complies with the foregoing provisions of this subsection becomes effective and continues to be a limited liability partnership until its certificate of limited partnership is amended to remove the statement that such limited partnership is a limited liability partnership and so that its name no longer contains the words "limited liability limited partnership," or the abbreviation "L.L.L.P.," or the designation "LLLP." The fact that the certificate of limited partnership of a limited partnership has been amended as set forth in this subsection is notice that the limited partnership is a limited liability partnership. If a limited partnership that is a limited liability partnership is dissolved and its business continued without liquidation of the limited partnership's affairs, the new limited partnership shall continue to be a limited liability partnership until its certificate of limited partnership is amended as provided in this subsection. A limited partnership that becomes a limited liability partnership pursuant to this subsection shall otherwise remain subject to Chapter 9 of this title, including, without limitation, the annual registration provisions of Code Section 14-9-206.5.

Code 1981, § 14-8-62, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 470, § 11; Ga. L. 1996, p. 787, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1380, § 1.