Sec. 62.405. APPROVAL BY COMMISSIONER OF PLAN. (a) If the commissioner approves the plan of merger or consolidation, the commissioner shall issue an order approving the merger or consolidation.

(b) If the surviving association is a foreign association, the commissioner shall issue and deliver to the surviving association a certificate of authority to do business as an association in this state for the period expiring on January 31 of the next calendar year.

(c) A surviving association that is a domestic association shall operate under:

(1) the articles and bylaws of the merging or consolidating domestic association; and

(2) the laws applicable to a domestic association.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.