Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 153.554 · Subchapter L. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
EXECUTION, AMENDMENT, OR CANCELLATION BY JUDICIAL ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a person fails or refuses to execute or file a certificate as required by this chapter or Title 1 or to execute a partnership agreement, another person adversely affected by the failure or refusal may petition a court to direct the execution or filing of the certificate or the execution of the partnership agreement, as appropriate.
(b) If the court finds that the execution or filing of the certificate is proper and that a person required to execute or file the certificate has failed or refused to execute or file the certificate, the court shall order the secretary of state to record an appropriate certificate.
(c) The judicial remedy described by Subsection (b) is not a limit on the rights of a person to file a written statement under Section 153.106(2).
(d) If the court finds that the partnership agreement should be executed and that a person required to execute the partnership agreement has failed or refused to execute the agreement, the court shall enter an order granting appropriate relief.
(e) If a court enters an order in favor of the adversely affected person requesting relief under this section, the court shall award to that person reasonable expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.153.htm
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