District Of Columbia Quitclaim Deed (LLC Grantor)

A limited liability company signs nothing by itself. A person signs for it, and District of Columbia law is blunt about where that person's power comes from: under D.C. Code section 29-803.01(a), a member is not an agent of a limited liability company solely by reason of being a member. This District of Columbia quitclaim deed is built around that sentence. One company stands as grantor, one individual signs for it, and the deed states the title that individual holds in the company and the authority relied on.

Where a company signature gets its power

Section 2 of the form exists because the answer is never automatic. A company is member-managed unless its operating agreement expressly says it is manager-managed or vests management in managers, the default rule of section 29-804.07, so the signer may be a manager, a managing member, or an officer the agreement names. The District also supplies a statement of authority under section 29-803.02, which may grant a person or a position the power to execute an instrument transferring real property held in the company name, and which, recorded by certified copy in the office where transfers of that property are recorded, is conclusive in favor of someone giving value in reliance on it. The operating agreement, a members' consent, and any statement of authority are prepared and recorded separately and are not included in this package; what the deed does is name the title and the authority the signature rests on.

Released, not warranted

A quit claim deed in the District works by omission. Title covenants attach only where the express phrases of D.C. Code sections 42-604 through 42-608 appear in a deed, and this one carries none of them and says so in its operative section. Section 42-702 still carries across the company's whole present estate, so the grantee receives exactly the interest the company held at delivery, along with every easement, covenant, and lien already recorded against it. Section 8 takes an informational listing of those matters above a printed line confirming the listing warrants nothing.

One sealed signature for the company

District law folds the seal into the way an estate comes into being: no estate in District real property is created, section 42-306(b) says, except through a deed the grantor has both signed and sealed. The signature line therefore closes with the bracketed notation the statutory deed forms at section 42-601 print, and the operative text adopts that notation as the seal of the company. No District provision prescribes a form of seal for a company grantor. Corporations hold a permissive power under section 29-303.02(2) to keep a corporate seal and reproduce it, and the District's limited liability company chapter states no seal rule at all, so a company that owns a seal may add it beside the printed notation without the deed depending on one. A single acknowledgment certificate follows the single signature, with a name blank sized for a signer's company capacity. Ownership patterns behind this shape fill the records: a rowhouse held in a single-purpose company and sold to a buyer, property distributed to a company's members when the company winds up, and transfers between affiliated companies. The form recites one company and one signer; two companies conveying together, an individual record owner, and a corporation executing through its president with an attesting secretary under section 42-602 each follow different patterns.

The tax that surprises company transfers

Recordation and transfer tax each reach 1.1 percent of consideration below 400,000 dollars and 1.45 percent at or above that line, and where a deed passes for nothing or for a nominal sum both are measured on fair market value instead. The District's no-consideration relationship exemptions run between individuals, spouses, domestic partners, parent and child, grandparent and grandchild, so a deed between a company and its own members sits outside them and answers to value. Either way the figures ride Form FP-7/C, the combined return every party signs under oath, filed with the deed at the Recorder of Deeds, where property answers to its square, suffix, and lot and the deed is due on record within 30 days of signing.

The purchase delivers this configuration as a fillable PDF, a completed example worked through for a Park View rowhouse distributed to a company's sole member, and a plain-language guide covering the numbered sections, the signer's authority, the seal and acknowledgment formalities, the tax return, and recording. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.