17-7668. Nature of business permitted; powers. (a) Unless otherwise specifically prohibited by law, a limited liability company may carry on any lawful business, purpose or activity, whether or not for profit with the exception of the business of granting policies of insurance, or assuming insurance risks or banking as defined in K.S.A. 9-702, and amendments thereto.

(b) A limited liability company shall possess and may exercise all the powers and privileges granted by this act or by any other law or by its operating agreement, together with any powers incidental thereto, including such powers and privileges as are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business, purposes or activities of the limited liability company.

(c) A limited liability company organized and existing under the Kansas revised limited liability company act or otherwise qualified to do business in Kansas may have and exercise all powers that may be exercised by a Kansas professional association or professional corporation under the professional corporation law of Kansas, including employment of professionals to practice a profession, which shall be limited to the practice of one profession, except as provided in K.S.A. 17-2710, and amendments thereto.

(d) Only a qualified person may be a member of a limited liability company organized to exercise powers of a professional association or professional corporation. No membership may be transferred to another person until there is presented to such limited liability company a certificate by the licensing body, as defined in K.S.A. 74-146, and amendments thereto, stating that the person to whom the transfer is made or the membership issued is duly licensed to render the same type of professional services as that for which the limited liability company was organized.

(e) As used in the section, "qualified person" means:

(1) Any natural person licensed to practice the same type of profession that any professional association or professional corporation is authorized to practice;

(2) the trustee of a trust that is a qualified trust under section 401(a) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect, on July 1, 1999, or of a contribution plan that is a qualified employee stock ownership plan under section 409A(a) of the federal internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect, on July 1, 1999;

(3) the trustee of a revocable living trust established by a natural person who is licensed to practice the type of profession that any professional association or professional corporation is authorized to practice, if the terms of such trust provide that such natural person is the principal beneficiary and sole trustee of such trust and such trust does not continue to hold title to membership in the limited liability company following such natural person's death for more than a reasonable period of time necessary to dispose of such membership;

(4) a Kansas professional corporation or foreign professional corporation in which at least one member or shareholder is authorized by a licensing body, as defined in K.S.A. 74-146, and amendments thereto, to render in this state a professional service permitted by the articles of organization;

(5) a general partnership or limited liability company, if all partners or members thereof are authorized to render the professional services permitted by the articles of organization of the limited liability company formed pursuant to this section and in which at least one partner or member is authorized by a licensing authority of this state to render in this state the professional services permitted by the articles of organization of the limited liability company; or

(6) a healing arts school clinic authorized to perform professional services in accordance with K.S.A. 65-2877a, and amendments thereto.

(f) Nothing in this act shall restrict or limit in any manner the authority and duty of any licensing body, as defined in K.S.A. 74-146, and amendments thereto, for the licensing of individual persons rendering a professional service or the practice of the profession that is within the jurisdiction of the licensing body, notwithstanding that the person is an officer, manager, member or employee of a limited liability company organized to exercise powers of a professional association or professional corporation. Each licensing body may adopt rules and regulations governing the practice of each profession as are necessary to enforce and comply with this act and the law applicable to each profession.

(g) A licensing body, as defined in K.S.A. 74-146, and amendments thereto, the attorney general or district or county attorney may bring an action in the name of the state of Kansas in quo warranto or injunction against a limited liability company engaging in the practice of a profession without complying with the provisions of this act.

(h) Notwithstanding any provision of this act to the contrary, without limiting the general powers enumerated in subsection (b), a limited liability company shall, subject to such standards and restrictions, if any, as are set forth in its operating agreement, have the power and authority to make contracts of guaranty and suretyship and enter into interest rate, basis, currency, hedge or other swap agreements or cap, floor, put, call, option, exchange or collar agreements, derivative agreements, or other agreements similar to any of the foregoing.

(i) Unless otherwise provided in an operating agreement, a limited liability company has the power and authority to grant, hold or exercise a power of attorney, including an irrevocable power of attorney.

(j) (1) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), any act or transaction that may be taken by or in respect of a limited liability company under the Kansas revised limited liability company act or an operating agreement, but that is void or voidable when taken, may be ratified, or the failure to comply with any requirements of the operating agreement making such act or transaction void or voidable may be waived, by the members, managers or other persons whose approval would be required under the operating agreement (i) for such act or transaction to be validly taken, or (ii) to amend the operating agreement in a manner that would permit such act or transaction to be validly taken, in each case at the time of such ratification or waiver.

(B) If the void or voidable act or transaction was the issuance or assignment of any limited liability company interests, the limited liability company interests purportedly issued or assigned shall be deemed not to have been issued or assigned for purposes of determining whether the void or voidable act or transaction was ratified or waived pursuant to this subsection.

(2) Any act or transaction that is ratified, or with respect to which the failure to comply with any requirements of the operating agreement is waived, pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed validly taken at the time of such act or transaction.

(3) If an amendment to the operating agreement to permit any such act or transaction to be validly taken would require notice to any members, managers or other persons under the operating agreement and the ratification or waiver of such act or transaction is effectuated pursuant to this subsection by the members, managers or other persons whose approval would be required to amend the operating agreement, notice of such ratification or waiver shall be given following such ratification or waiver to the members, managers or other persons who would have been entitled to notice of such an amendment and who have not otherwise received notice of, or participated in, such ratification or waiver.

(4) The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed to limit the accomplishment of a ratification or waiver of a void or voidable act by other means permitted by law.

(5) Upon application of the limited liability company, any member, manager or person claiming to be substantially and adversely affected by a ratification or waiver pursuant to this subsection, excluding any harm that would have resulted if such act or transaction had been valid when taken, the district court may hear and determine the validity and effectiveness of the ratification of, or waiver with respect to, any void or voidable act or transaction effectuated pursuant to this subsection. In any such application, the limited liability company shall be named as a party and service of the application upon the resident agent of the limited liability company shall be deemed to be service upon the limited liability company, and no other party need be joined in order for the court to adjudicate the validity and effectiveness of the ratification or waiver. The court may make such order respecting further or other notice of such application as it deems proper under these circumstances. Nothing in this paragraph limits or affects the right to serve process in any other manner now or hereafter provided by law, and this provision is an extension of and not a limitation upon the right otherwise existing of service of legal process upon nonresidents.

History: L. 1999, ch. 119, § 7; L. 2014, ch. 40, § 5; L. 2021, ch. 11, § 2; L. 2025, ch. 95, § 5; July 1.