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- .TX1 *** COMPLETE ALTERNATIVE GENERAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT *******
- PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
-
- This Agreement is made this date between the Partners listed
- below for the purpose of forming a partnership between them,
- subject to the following terms and conditions herein.
-
- NAME ADDRESS CITY/STATE ZIP
-
- {PART/NAME/ADDR1}
- {PART/NAME/ADDR2}
- {PART/NAME/ADDR3}
- {PART/NAME/ADDR4}
- {PART/NAME/ADDR5}
-
- 1. Name and Business. The parties hereby form a partnership
- under the name of {PARTSHIP/NAME} to {PARTSHIP/PURPOSE}. The
- principal office of the business shall be at {PARTSHIP/LOCATION}.
-
- 2. Term. The partnership shall begin on {BEGIN/DATE} and shall
- continue until terminated as herein provided.
-
- 3. Capital. The capital of the partnership shall be contributed
- in cash by the partners as follows:
-
- {CAPITAL/CONTR}
-
- A separate capital account shall be maintained for each partner.
- Neither partner shall withdraw any part of his capital account.
- Upon the demand of either partner, the capital accounts of the
- partners shall be maintained at all times in the proportions in
- which the partners share in the profits and losses of the
- partnership.
-
- 4. Profit and Loss. The net profits of the partnership shall be
- divided equally between the partners and the net losses shall be
- borne equally by them. A separate income account shall be
- maintained for each partner. Partnership profits and losses
- shall be charged or credited to the separate income account of
- each partner. If a partner has no credit balance in his income
- account, losses shall be charged to his capital account.
-
- 5. Salaries and Drawings. Neither partner shall receive any
- salary for services rendered to the partnership. Each partner
- may, from time to time, withdraw the credit balance in his income
- account.
-
- 6. Interest. No interest shall be paid on the initial
- contributions to the capital of the partnership or on any
- subsequent contributions of capital.
-
- 7. Management Duties and Restrictions. The partners shall have
- equal rights in the management of the partnership business, and
- each partner shall devote his entire time to the conduct of the
- business. Without the consent of the other partner neither
- partner shall on behalf of the partnership borrow or lend money,
- or make, deliver, or accept any commercial paper, or execute any
- mortgage, security agreement, bond, or lease, or purchase or
- contract to purchase, or sell or contract to sell any property
- for or of the partnership other than the type of property bought
- and sold in the regular course of its business.
-
- 8. Banking. All funds of the partnership shall be deposited in
- its name in such checking account or accounts as shall be
- designated by the partners. All withdrawals therefrom are to be
- made upon checks signed by either partner.
-
- 9. Books. The partnership books shall be maintained at the
- principal office of the partnership, and each partner shall at
- all times have access thereto. The books shall be kept on a
- calendar year basis, commencing January 1st of each year and
- ending on December 31st of each year and shall be closed and
- balanced at the end of each year. An audit shall be made as of
- the closing date each year.
-
- 10. Voluntary Termination. The partnership may be dissolved at
- any time by agreement of the partners, in which event the
- partners shall proceed with reasonable promptness to liquidate
- the business of the partnership. The partnership name shall be
- sold with the other assets of the business. The assets of the
- partnership business shall be used and distributed in the
- following order:
-
- (a) to pay or provide for the payment of all partnership
- liabilities and liquidating expenses and obligations;
-
- (b) to equalize the income accounts of the partners;
-
- (c) to discharge the balance of the income accounts of the
- partners;
-
- (d) to equalize the capital accounts of the partners; and
-
- (e) to discharge the balance of the capital accounts of the
- partners.
-
- 11. Death. Upon the death of either partner, the surviving
- partner shall have the right either to purchase the interest of
- the decedent in the partnership or to terminate and liquidate the
- partnership business. If the surviving partner elects to
- purchase the decedent's interest, he shall serve notice in
- writing of such election, within three months after the death of
- the decedent, upon the executor or administrator of the decedent,
- or, if at the time of such election no legal representative has
- been appointed, upon any one of the known legal heirs of the
- decedent at the last-known address of such heir.
-
- (a) If the surviving partner elects to purchase the interest
- of the decedent in the partnership, the purchase price shall be
- equal to the decedent's capital account as at the date of his
- death plus the decedent's income account as at the end of the
- prior fiscal year, increased by his share of partnership profits
- or decreased by his share of partnership losses for the period
- from the beginning of the fiscal year in which his death occurred
- until the end of the calendar month in which his death occurred,
- and decreased by withdrawals charged to his income account during
- such period. No allowance shall be made for goodwill, trade
- name, patents, or other intangible assets, except as those assets
- have been reflected on the partnership books immediately prior to
- the decedent's death; but the survivor shall nevertheless be
- entitled to use the trade name of the partnership.
-
- (b) Except as herein otherwise stated, the procedure as to
- liquidation and distribution of the assets of the partnership
- business shall be the same as stated in paragraph 10 with
- reference to voluntary termination.
-
- 13. Arbitration. Any controversy or claim arising out of or
- relating to this Agreement, or the breach hereof, shall be
- settled by arbitration in accordance with the rules, then
- obtaining, of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment
- upon the award rendered may be entered in any court having
- jurisdiction thereof.
-
- Dated: {TODAY/DATE}
- {PART/NAME1}
-
-
- {PART/NAME2}
-
- .TX2 ***INTRODUCTORY CLAUSE FOR A JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT *******
- JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT
-
- This Agreement is made this date between the following persons
- for the purpose of {AGREEMENT/PURPOSE}:
-
- NAME ADDRESS CITY/STATE ZIP
-
- {PARTY/NAME/ADDR1}
- {PARTY/NAME/ADDR2}
- .TX3 *** ADDITIONAL PARTY FOR A JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT *********
- {?PARTY/NAME/ADDR3}
- .TX4 *** BEGINNING CLAUSES FOR A JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT ********
-
- RECITALS:
-
- The Joint Venturers have agreed to make contributions to a common
- fund for the purpose of acquiring and holding {BUSINESS/DESCR},
- hereinafter called the business interest.
-
- The Joint Venturers consider it advisable to acquire and hold
- their business interest through a nominee so as to avoid the
- necessity of numerous separate agreements, to maintain the legal
- title to the business interest in a simple and practicable form
- and to facilitate the collection and distribution of the profits
- accruing under the business interest. {BUSINESS/HOLDER} has
- agreed to act as nominee of the Joint Venturers with the
- understanding that he is also acquiring a participating interest
- in this joint venture on his own account.
-
- It is therefore agreed by the parties hereto:
-
- 1. Purpose The Joint Venturers form this joint venture to
- acquire and hold the business interest in common and to provide
- the finances required for its acquisition. To the extent set
- forth in this Agreement, each of the Joint Venturers shall own an
- undivided fractional part in the business. The Joint Venturers
- appoint as their agent {BUSINESS/HOLDER}, whose duty it shall be
- to hold each of the undivided fractional parts in the business
- interest for the benefit of and as agent for the respective Joint
- Venturers.
-
- 2. Contributions. The Agent acknowledges that he has received
- from each of the Joint Venturers, for the purpose of this joint
- venture, the sum set after the name of each Joint Venturer as
- follows:
-
- CONTRIBUTION TO
- NAME JOINT VENTURE
-
- {PARTY/CONTR1}
- {PARTY/CONTR2}
- .TX5 *** ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTOR FOR A JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT ***
- {?PARTY/CONTR3}
- .TX6 *** ENDING PROVISIONS FOR A JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT ********
-
- 3. Acquisition of Business Interest. The Agent is authorized to
- acquire and hold in his own name, but on behalf of the Joint
- Venturers (of which the Agent is one), the business interest, and
- to pay {TOTAL/COST} for it as follows: {DOWN/PAYMENT} in cash,
- and the balance of {BALANCE/NOTE} by a note in that amount. The
- note shall bear interest at the rate of {INTEREST/RATE}, shall be
- due and payable on or before {PAYMENT/DUE}, with the privilege of
- prepayment and shall be secured by {COLLATERAL} which the Agent
- is authorized to execute and deliver.
-
- 4. Profits. The Agent shall hold and distribute the business
- interest and shall receive the net profits as they accrue for the
- term of this Agreement or so long as the Joint Venturers are the
- owners in common of the business interest, for the benefit of the
- Joint Venturers. Each Joint Venturer shall receive that share of
- the profits of the venture as his capital contribution is of the
- total capital contributions of all Joint Venturers.
-
- 5. Expenses of Venture. All losses and disbursements incurred
- by the Agent in acquiring, holding and protecting the business
- interest and the net profits shall, during the period of the
- venture, be paid by the Joint Venturers, on demand of the Agent,
- in the ratio which the contribution of each Joint Venturer bears
- to the total contributions set forth in paragraph 2.
-
- 6. Liability of Agent. The Agent shall be liable only for his
- own willful misfeasance and bad faith and no one not a party to
- this Agreement shall have any rights whatsoever under this
- Agreement against the Agent for any action taken or not taken by
- him.
-
- 7. Term. This Agreement shall terminate and the obligations of
- the Agent shall be deemed completed on the happening of either of
- the following events:
-
- (a) The receipt and distribution by the Agent of the final
- net profits accruing under the business interest.
-
- (b) Termination by mutual assent of all joint ventures.
-
- 8. Compensation of Agent. Unless otherwise agreed to in the
- future by a majority in interest of the Joint Venturers, the
- Agent shall not receive any compensation for services rendered by
- him under this Agreement.
-
- In witness whereof the Agent and the Joint Venturers have signed
- and sealed this Agreement dated {TODAY/DATE}.
-
-
- {BUSINESS/HOLDER},
- Agent
-
-
-
- {PARTY/NAME1}
-
-
- {PARTY/NAME2}
-
- .TX7 *** ADDITIONAL PARTY SIGNATURE FOR JOINT VENTURE ***********
- {?PARTY/NAME3}
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