Delaware Code § 6-17-405

Classes and voting
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(a) 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 make provision for the future creation in the manner provided in the partnership agreement
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.
A partnership agreement may provide for the taking of an action, including the amendment of the partnership agreement, without the
vote or approval of any general partner or class or group of general partners, including an action to create under the provisions of the
partnership agreement a class or group of partnership interests that was not previously outstanding.
(b) 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, separately or with all or any class or group of the limited partners or the general partners, on any matter. Voting by
general partners may be on a per capita, number, financial interest, class, group or any other basis.
(c) A partnership agreement 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.
(d) Unless otherwise provided in a partnership agreement, meetings of general partners may be held by means of conference telephone
or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation
in a meeting pursuant to this subsection shall constitute presence in person at the meeting. Unless otherwise provided in a partnership
agreement, on any matter that is to be voted on, consented to or approved by general partners, the general partners may take such action
without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if consented to or approved, in writing, by electronic transmission or by any
other means permitted by law, by general partners having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize
or take such action at a meeting at which all general partners entitled to vote thereon were present and voted. Unless otherwise provided
in a partnership agreement, if a person (whether or not then a general partner) consenting as a general partner to any matter provides
that such consent will be effective at a future time (including a time determined upon the happening of an event), then such person shall
be deemed to have consented as a general partner at such future time so long as such person is then a general partner. Unless otherwise
provided in a partnership agreement, on any matter that is to be voted on by general partners, the general partners may vote in person or by
proxy, and such proxy may be granted in writing, by means of electronic transmission or as otherwise permitted by applicable law. Unless
otherwise provided in a partnership agreement, a consent transmitted by electronic transmission by a general partner or by a person or
persons authorized to act for a general partner shall be deemed to be written and signed for purposes of this subsection (d).

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