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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="9A-103" title_number="9A" title_name="Maryland Revised Uniform Partnership Act" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership and the means and conditions for amending the partnership agreement are governed by the partnership agreement. To the extent the partnership agreement does not otherwise provide, this title governs relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The partnership agreement may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Vary the rights and duties under § 9A–105 of this subtitle except to eliminate the duty to provide copies of statements to all of the partners;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unreasonably restrict the right of access to books and records under § 9A–403(b) of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Eliminate the duty of loyalty under § 9A–404(b) or § 9A–603(b)(3) of this title, but:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The partnership agreement may identify specific types or categories of activities that do not violate the duty of loyalty; however, the partnership agreement may not be amended to expand or add any specific types or categories of activities that do not violate the duty of loyalty without the consent of all partners after full disclosure of all material facts; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>All of the partners or a number or percentage of not less than a majority of disinterested partners specified in the partnership agreement may authorize or ratify, after full disclosure of all material facts, a specific act or transaction that otherwise would violate the duty of loyalty;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Unreasonably reduce the duty of care under § 9A–404(c) or § 9A–603(b)(3) of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Eliminate the obligation of good faith and fair dealing under § 9A–404(d) of this title, 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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Vary the power to dissociate as a partner under § 9A–602(a) of this title, except to require the notice under § 9A–601(1) of this title to be in writing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Vary the right of a court to expel a partner in the events specified in § 9A–601(5) of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Vary the requirement to wind up the partnership business in cases specified in § 9A–801(4), (5), or (6) of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Vary the law applicable to a limited liability partnership under § 9A–106 of this subtitle; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Restrict rights of third parties under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
