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- PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
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- AGREEMENT made ____________, 19__ between
- ______________________ and ________________ of ____________.
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- 1. NAME AND BUSINESS. The parties hereby form a
- partnership under the name of ___________________ to conduct a
- _______________________. The principal office of the business
- shall be in _____________________.
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- 2. TERM. The partnership shall begin on ___________,
- 19__, and shall continue until terminated as herein provided.
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- 3. CAPITAL. The capital of the partnership shall be
- contributed in cash by the partners as follows:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 6. INTEREST. No interest shall be paid on the initial
- contributions to the capital of the partnership or on any
- subsequent contributions of capital.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
- fiscal year basis, commencing ______ and ending _______, and
- shall be closed and balanced at the end of each fiscal year. An
- audit shall be made as of the closing date.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- (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.
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- (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.
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- 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.
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- In witness whereof the parties have signed this
- Agreement.
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- Form 601
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