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 shall return the original items or make appropriate compensation if the
 original items no longer exist.
 Section 4 Individual Businesses and Leaseholding Farm Households
 Article 26
 "Individual businesses" refers to business run by individual citizens who
 have been lawfully registered and approved to engage in industrial or
 commercial operation within the sphere permitted by law. An individual
 business may adopt a shop name.
 Article 27
 "Leaseholding farm households" refers to members of a rural collective
 economic organization who engage in commodity production under a contract
 and within the spheres permitted by law.
 Article 28
 The legitimate rights and interests of individual businesses and
 leaseholding farm households shall be protected by law.
 Article 29
 The debts of an individual business or a leaseholding farm household shall
 be secured with the individual's property if the business is operated by
 an individual and with the family's property if the business is operated
 by a family.
 Section 5 Individual Partnership
 Article 30
 "Individual partnership" refers to two or more citizens associated in a
 business and working together, with each providing funds, material
 objects, techniques and so on according to an agreement.
 Article 31
 Partners shall make a written agreement covering the funds each is to
 provide, the distribution of profits, the responsibility for debts, the
 entering into and withdrawal from partnership, the ending of partnership
 and other such matters.
 Article 32
 The property provided by the partners shall be under their unified (来源:英语学习门户网站EnglishCN.com)
 management and use. The property accumulated in a partnership operation
 shall belong to all the partners.
 Article 33
 An individual partnership may adopt a shop name; it shall be approved and
 registered in accordance with the law and conduct business operations
 within the range as approved and registered.
 Article 34
 The operational activities of an individual partnership shall be decided
 jointly by the partners, who each shall have the right to carry out and
 supervise those activities. The partners may elect a responsible person.
 All partners shall bear civil liability for the operational activities of
 the responsible person and other personnel.
 Article 35
 A partnership's debts shall be secured with the partners' property in
 proportion to their respective contributions to the investment or
 according to the agreement made. Partners shall undertake joint liability
 for their partnership's debts, except as otherwise stipulated by law. Any
 partner who overpays his share of the partnership's debts shall have the
 right to claim compensation from the other partners.
 Chapter III Legal PersonsSection 1 General Stipulations
 Article 36
 A legal person shall be an organization that has capacity for civil rights
 and capacity for civil conduct and independently enjoys civil rights and
 assumes civil obligations in accordance with the law.
 A legal person's capacity for civil rights and capacity for civil conduct
 shall begin when the legal person is established and shall end when the
 legal person terminates.
 Article 37
 A legal person shall have the following qualifications:
 (1) establishment in accordance with the law;
 (2) possession of the necessary property or funds;
 (3) possession of its own name, organization and premises; and
 (4) ability to independently bear civil liability.
 Article 38
 In accordance with the law or the articles of association of the legal
 person, the responsible person who acts on behalf of the legal person in
 exercising its functions and powers shall be its legal representative.
 Article 39
 A legal person's domicile shall be the place where its main administrative
 office is located.
 Article 40
 When a legal person terminates, it shall go into liquidation in accordance
 with the law and discontinue all other activities.
 Section 2 Enterprise as Legal Person
 Article 41
 An enterprise owned by the whole people or under collective ownership
 shall be qualified as a legal person when it has sufficient funds as
 stipulated by the state; has articles of association, an organization and
 premises; has the ability to independently bear civil liability; and has
 been approved and registered by the competent authority. A Chinese-
 foreign equity joint venture, Chinese-foreign contractual joint venture or
 foreign-capital enterprise established within the People's Republic of
 China shall be qualified as a legal person in China if it has the
 qualifications of a legal person and has been approved and registered by
 the administrative agency for industry and commerce in according with the
 law.
 Article 42
 An enterprise as legal person shall conduct operations within the range
 approved and registered.
 Article 43
 An enterprise as legal person shall bear civil liability for the
 operational activities of its legal representatives and other personnel.
 Article 44
 If an enterprise as legal person is divided or merged or undergoes any
 other important change, it shall register the change with the registration
 authority and publicly announce it.
 When an enterprise as legal person is divided or merged, its rights and
 obligations shall be enjoyed and assumed by the new legal person that
 results from the change.
 Article 45
 An enterprise as legal person shall terminate for any of the following
 reasons:
 (1) if it is dissolved by law;
 (2) if it is disbanded;
 (3) if it is declared bankrupt in accordance with the law; or
 (4) for other reasons.
 Article 46
 When an enterprise as legal person terminates, it shall cancel its
 registration with the registration authority and publicly announce the
 termination.
 Article 47
 When an enterprise as legal person is disbanded, it shall establish a
 liquidation organization and go into liquidation. When an enterprise as
 legal person is dissolved or is declared bankrupt, the competent authority
 or a people's court shall organize the organs and personnel concerned to
 establish a liquidation organization to liquidate the enterprise.
 Article 48
 An enterprise owned by the whole people, as legal person, shall bear civil
 liability with the property that the state authorizes it to manage. An
 enterprise under collective ownership, as legal person, shall bear civil
 liability with the property it owns. A Chinese-foreign equity joint
 venture, Chinese-foreign contractual joint venture or foreign-capital
 enterprise as legal person shall bear civil liability with the property it
 owns, except as stipulated otherwise by law.
 Article 49
 Under any of the following circumstances, an enterprise as legal person
 shall bear liability, its legal representative may additionally be given
 administrative sanctions and fined and, if the offence constitutes a
 crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with
 the law:
 (1) conducting illegal operations beyond the range approved and registered
 by the registration authority;
 (2) concealing facts from the registration and tax authorities and
 practising fraud;
 (3) secretly withdrawing funds or hiding property to evade repayment of
 debts;
 (4) disposing of property without authorization after the enterprise is
 dissolved, disbanded or declared bankrupt;
 (5) failing to apply for registration and make a public announcement
 promptly when the enterprise undergoes a change or terminates, thus
 causing interested persons to suffer heavy losses;
 (6) engaging in other activities prohibited by law, damaging the interests
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