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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="10-204" title_number="10" title_name="Limited Partnership Act" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Formation, Forfeiture, and Reinstatement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Each certificate or articles required by this subtitle to be filed with the Department shall be executed in the following manner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The certificate of limited partnership, articles of conversion to a limited partnership, and articles of conversion to an other entity must be signed by all general partners or, in the case of articles of conversion to a limited partnership, by any person authorized to execute the certificate on behalf of the other entity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A certificate of amendment under § 10–202 of this subtitle must be signed by at least one general partner and by each other general partner designated in the certificate of amendment as a new general partner or a withdrawing general partner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A certificate of cancellation under § 10–203 of this subtitle must be signed by all general partners, or, if there is no general partner, by a majority of the limited partners; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A certificate of reinstatement under § 10–214 of this subtitle must be signed by all general partners, or, if there is no general partner, by a majority of the limited partners.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Any person may sign any certificate or partnership agreement or amendment to the certificate or agreement by an attorney in fact. Powers of attorney relating to the signing of a certificate, partnership agreement, or amendment by an attorney in fact need not be sworn to, verified or acknowledged, and need not be filed with the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The execution of a certificate by a general partner constitutes an affirmation under the penalties of perjury that the facts stated therein are true.</text>
  </level>
</section>
