Ark. Code Ann. § 4-32-102 (2026)

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Articles of organization” means articles filed under § 4-32-201, and those articles as amended and restated;
2. “Corporation” means a corporation formed under the laws of any state or foreign country, including professional corporations or associations;
3. “Court” includes every court having jurisdiction in the case;
4. “Event of dissociation” means an event that causes a person to cease to be a member as provided in § 4-32-802;
5. “Foreign limited liability company” means an organization that is:
   1. An unincorporated association;
   2. Organized under laws of a state other than the laws of this state, or under the laws of any foreign country;
   3. Organized under a statute pursuant to which an association may be formed that affords to each of its members limited liability with respect to the liabilities of the entity; and
   4. Not required to be registered or organized under any statute of this state other than this chapter;
6. “Limited liability company” or “domestic limited liability company” means an organization formed under this chapter;
7. “Limited liability company interest” or “interest in the limited liability company” means the interest that can be assigned under § 4-32-704 and charged under § 4-32-705;
8. “Limited partnership” means a limited partnership formed under the laws of any state or foreign country;
9. “Manager” or “managers” means, with respect to a limited liability company that has set forth in its articles of organization that it is to be managed by managers, the person or persons designated in accordance with § 4-32-401;
10. “Member” or “members” means a person or persons who have been admitted to membership in a limited liability company as provided in § 4-32-801 and who have not ceased to be members as provided in § 4-32-802;
11. “Operating agreement” means the written agreement which shall be entered into among all of the members as to the conduct of the business and affairs of a limited liability company;
12. 1. “Person” means an individual, a general partnership, a limited partnership, a domestic or foreign limited liability company, a trust, an estate, an association, a corporation, a custodian, a nominee and other individual entity in its own or representative capacity, or any other legal entity.
    2. “Person” includes a protected series;
13. “Professional service” means any type of professional service which may be legally performed only pursuant to a license or other legally mandated personal authorization. For example: the personal service rendered by certified public accountants, architects, engineers, dentists, doctors, and attorneys at law; and
14. “State” means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

History. Acts 1993, No. 1003, § 102; 2019, No. 665, § 2.

Publisher's Notes. Section 4-37-805, enacted by Acts 2019, No. 655, § 1, provides that the effective date of Acts 2019, No. 655, which amended this section, is October 1, 2019.

Amendments. The 2019 amendment redesignated (12) as (12)(A); and added (12)(B).