§ 8824. Liability of member, manager or other person for false or missing information in filed document.

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(a)General rule.-- If a document delivered to the department for filing under this title and filed by the department contains a materially false statement or fails to state a material fact required to be stated, a person that suffers loss by reasonable reliance on the statement or failure to state a material fact may recover damages for the loss from:

(1)a person that signed the document or caused another to sign it on the person's behalf and knew there was false or missing information in the document at the time it was signed; and

(2)subject to subsection (b), a member of a member-managed limited liability company or a manager of a manager-managed limited liability company if:

(i)the document was delivered for filing on behalf of the company; and

(ii)the member or manager knew or had notice there was false or missing information for a reasonably sufficient time before the document was relied upon so that, before the reliance, the member or manager reasonably could have:

(A)effected an amendment under section 8822 (relating to amendment or restatement of certificate of organization);

(B)filed a petition under section 144 (relating to signing and filing pursuant to judicial order); or

(C)delivered to the department for filing a statement of correction under section 138 (relating to statement of correction) or a statement of withdrawal under section 141 (relating to abandonment of filing before effectiveness).

(b)Substitute responsibility.-- To the extent the operating agreement of a member-managed limited liability company expressly relieves a member of responsibility for maintaining the accuracy of information contained in documents delivered on behalf of the company to the department for filing under this chapter and imposes that responsibility on one or more other members, the liability stated under subsection (a)(2) applies to those other members and not to the member that the operating agreement relieves of the responsibility.

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