490A.801 - CONTRIBUTIONS -- PENALTIES. - Iowa Statutes

490A.801 CONTRIBUTIONS -- PENALTIES. 1. The contributions of a member to a limited liability company may be in cash, property, or services rendered, or a promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services. 2. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, a member is obligated to the limited liability company to perform any enforceable promise to contribute cash or property or to perform services, even if the member is unable to perform because of death, disability, or any other reason. If a member does not make the contribution, the member is obligated at the option of the limited liability company to contribute cash equal to that portion of the value of the contribution that has not been made as stated in the limited liability company records required to be kept by section 490A.709. A promise by a member to contribute to a limited liability company is not enforceable unless set out in a writing signed by the member. 3. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, the obligation of a member to make a contribution or return money or other property paid or distributed in violation of this chapter may be compromised only by consent of all the members. Notwithstanding the compromise, a creditor of a limited liability company who extends credit or otherwise acts in reliance on the original obligation may enforce the original obligation. 4. An operating agreement may provide that the interest of any member who fails to make a contribution that the member is obligated to make is subject to specified penalties for, or specified consequences of, such failure. The penalty or consequence may take the form of reducing or eliminating the defaulting member's proportionate interest in a limited liability company, subordinating the member's membership interest to that of a nondefaulting member, a forced sale of the member's membership interest, forfeiture of the member's membership interest, the lending by other members of the amount necessary to meet the member's commitment, a fixing of the value of the member's membership interest by appraisal or by formula and redemption, or sale of the member's membership interest at such value or other penalty or consequence.          Section History: Recent Form 92 Acts, ch 1151, § 44; 97 Acts, ch 188, § 70 Referred to in § 490A.903