(805 ILCS 215/401)
    Sec. 401. Becoming general partner. A person becomes a general partner:
        (1) as provided in the partnership agreement;
        (2) under Section 801(3)(B) following the
    
dissociation of a limited partnership's last general partner;
        (3) as the result of a conversion or merger under
    
Article 11; or
        (4) with the consent of all the partners.
(Source: P.A. 93-967, eff. 1-1-05.)