499.68 When effective — effect.

A merger or consolidation shall become effective upon the date that the certificate of merger or the certificate of consolidation is issued by the secretary of state, or the effective date specified in the articles of merger or articles of consolidation, whichever is later. When a merger or consolidation has become effective:

1. The several cooperative associations which are parties to the plan of merger or consolidation shall be a single cooperative association, which, in the case of a merger, shall be that cooperative association designated in the plan of merger as the surviving association, and, in the case of consolidation, shall be that cooperative association designated in the plan of consolidation as the new association.

2. The separate existence of all cooperative associations which are parties to the plan of merger or consolidation, except the surviving or new association, shall cease.

3. The surviving or new association shall have all the rights, privileges, immunities, and powers and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities of a cooperative association organized under the laws of this state.

4. The surviving or new association shall possess all the rights, privileges, immunities, and franchises, public as well as private, of each of the merging or consolidating cooperative associations.

5. All property, real, personal, and mixed, and all debts due on whatever account, including subscriptions to shares, and all other choses in action, and all and every other interest, of or belonging to or due to each of the cooperative associations merged or consolidated, shall be transferred to and vested in the surviving or new association without further act or deed. The title to any real estate, or any interest in real estate vested in any of the cooperative associations merged or consolidated, shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of the merger or consolidation.

6. A surviving or new association shall be responsible and liable for all obligations and liabilities of each of the cooperative associations merged or consolidated.

7. Any claim existing or action or proceeding pending by or against any of the cooperative associations merged or consolidated may be prosecuted as if the merger or consolidation had not taken place, or the surviving or new association may be substituted for the merged or consolidated association. Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon the property of any cooperative association shall be impaired by a merger or consolidation.

8. In the case of a merger, the articles of incorporation of the surviving association shall be deemed to be amended to the extent that changes in its articles of incorporation are stated in the plan of merger. In the case of a consolidation, the statements set forth in the articles of consolidation which are required or permitted to be set forth in the articles of incorporation of cooperative associations organized under the laws of the state of Iowa shall be deemed to be the original articles of incorporation of the new cooperative association.

9. The aggregate amount of the net assets of the merging or consolidating cooperative associations which was available for the payment of dividends immediately prior to the merger or consolidation, to the extent that the amount is not transferred to stated capital by the issuance of shares or otherwise, shall continue to be available for the payment of dividends by the surviving or new association.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §499.68]

97 Acts, ch 65, §2; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §95

Referred to in §499.61, 499.69A