(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2)
of this section, the partnership agreement governs relations
among the partners and between the partners and the partnership.
To the extent the partnership agreement does not otherwise
provide, this chapter governs relations among the partners and
between the partners and the partnership.
(2) A partnership agreement may not:
(a) Vary a limited partnership's power under RCW 25.10.031
to sue, be sued, and defend in its own name;
(b) Vary the law applicable to a limited partnership under
RCW 25.10.041;
(c) Vary the requirements of RCW 25.10.231;
(d) Vary the information required under RCW 25.10.091 or
unreasonably restrict the right to information under RCW 25.10.331 or 25.10.431, but the partnership agreement may impose
reasonable restrictions on the availability and use of
information obtained under those sections and may define
appropriate remedies, including liquidated damages, for a breach
of any reasonable restriction on use;
(e) Eliminate the duty of loyalty under RCW 25.10.441, but
the partnership agreement may, if not manifestly unreasonable:
(i) Identify specific types or categories of activities that
do not violate the duty of loyalty; and
(ii) Specify the number or percentage of partners that may
authorize or ratify, after full disclosure to all partners of all
material facts, a specific act or transaction that otherwise
would violate the duty of loyalty;
(f) Unreasonably reduce the duty of care under RCW 25.10.441(3);
(g) Eliminate the obligation of good faith and fair dealing
under RCW 25.10.341(2) and 25.10.441(4), but the partnership
agreement may prescribe the standards by which the performance of
the obligation is to be measured, if the standards are not
manifestly unreasonable;
(h) Vary the power of a person to dissociate as a general
partner under RCW 25.10.526(1) except to require that the notice
under RCW 25.10.521(1) be in a record;
(i) Vary the power of a court to decree dissolution in the
circumstances specified in RCW 25.10.576;
(j) Vary the requirement to wind up the partnership's
business as specified in RCW 25.10.581;
(k) Unreasonably restrict the right to maintain an action
under article 10 of this chapter;
(l) Restrict the right of a partner under RCW 25.10.796(1)
to approve a conversion or merger or the right of a general
partner under RCW 25.10.796(2) to consent to an amendment to the
certificate of limited partnership that deletes a statement that
the limited partnership is a limited liability limited
partnership; or
(m) Restrict rights under this chapter of a person other
than a partner or a transferee.
[2009 c 188 § 110.]