Nevada Code § 87.4332

Liability of purported partner
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1. If a person, by words or conduct,
purports to be a partner, or consents to being represented by another as a
partner, in a partnership or with one or more persons not partners, the
purported partner is liable to a person to whom the representation is made, if
that person, relying on the representation, enters into a transaction with the
actual or purported partnership. If the representation, either by the purported
partner or by a person with the purported partners consent, is made in a
public manner, the purported partner is liable to a person who relies upon the
purported partnership even if the purported partner is not aware of being held
out as a partner to the claimant. If partnership liability results, the
purported partner is liable with respect to that liability as if the purported
partner were a partner. If no partnership liability results, the purported
partner is liable with respect to that liability jointly and severally with any
other person consenting to the representation.
2. If a person is thus represented to be a
partner in an existing partnership, or with one or more persons not partners,
the purported partner is an agent of persons consenting to the representation
to bind them to the same extent and in the same manner as if the purported
partner were a partner, with respect to persons who enter into transactions in
reliance upon the representation. If all of the partners of the existing
partnership consent to the representation, a partnership act or obligation
results. If fewer than all of the partners of the existing partnership consent
to the representation, the person acting and the partners consenting to the
representation are jointly and severally liable.
3. A person is not liable as a partner
merely because the person is named by another in a statement of partnership
authority.
4. A person does not continue to be liable
as a partner merely because of a failure to file a statement of dissociation or
to amend a statement of partnership authority to indicate the partners dissociation
from the partnership.
5. Except as otherwise provided in
subsections 1 and 2, persons who are not partners as to each other are not
liable as partners to other persons.
6. Subsections 1 and 2 do not apply to any
person who, by words spoken or written or conduct, announces an association of
persons for the sole purpose of a business development, regardless of whether
such an announcement uses, or the association of persons is described by, the
terms partnering or joint venturing or any other similar term, so long as
the business development is undertaken by one or more corporations or
limited-liability companies.

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