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Current as of January 01, 2021 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
(a) A limited liability company is dissolved and its affairs shall be wound up upon the first to occur of the following:
(1) the latest date on which the limited liability company is to dissolve, if any, provided in the articles of organization, or the time specified in the operating agreement, but if no such date is provided in the articles of organization and if no such time is specified in the operating agreement, then the limited liability company shall have a perpetual existence;
(2) the happening of events specified in the operating agreement;
(3) subject to any requirement in the operating agreement requiring approval by any greater or lesser percentage in interest of the members or class or classes or group or groups of members, the vote or written consent of at least a majority in interest of the members or, if there is more than one class or group of members, then by at least a majority in interest of each class or group of members;
(4) at any time there are no members, provided that, unless otherwise provided in the operating agreement, the limited liability company is not dissolved and is not required to be wound up if, within one hundred eighty days or such other period as is provided for in the operating agreement after the occurrence of the event that terminated the continued membership of the last remaining member, the legal representative of the last remaining member agrees in writing to continue the limited liability company and to the admission of the legal representative of such member or its assignee to the limited liability company as a member, effective as of the occurrence of the event that terminated the continued membership of the last remaining member; or
(5) the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution under section seven hundred two of this article.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in the operating agreement, the death, retirement, resignation, expulsion, bankruptcy or dissolution of any member or the occurrence of any other event that terminates the continued membership of any member shall not cause the limited liability company to be dissolved or its affairs to be wound up, and upon the occurrence of any such event, the limited liability company shall be continued without dissolution, unless within one hundred eighty days following the occurrence of such event, a majority in interest of all of the remaining members of the limited liability company or, if there is more than one class or group of members, then by a majority in interest of all the remaining members of each class or group of members, vote or agree in writing to dissolve the limited liability company.
(c) A limited liability company whose original articles of organization were filed with the secretary of state and effective prior to the effective date of this subdivision shall continue to be governed by this section as in effect on such date and shall not be governed by this section, unless otherwise provided in the operating agreement.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New York Consolidated Laws, Limited Liability Company Law - LLC § 701. Dissolution - last updated January 01, 2021 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/limited-liability-company-law/llc-sect-701.html
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