(1) Subject to RCW 24.03A.715 and 24.03A.720, if the surviving entity is a domestic nonprofit corporation when a merger becomes effective:

(a) The domestic nonprofit corporation that is designated in the plan of merger as the surviving corporation continues or comes into existence, as the case may be;

(b) The separate existence of every domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation or eligible entity that is merged into the survivor ceases;

(c) All property owned by, and every contract and other right possessed by, each domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation or eligible entity that merges into the surviving corporation is vested in the surviving corporation without reversion or impairment;

(d) All liabilities of each domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation or eligible entity that is merged into the survivor are vested in the surviving corporation;

(e) The name of the surviving corporation may, but need not be, substituted in any pending proceeding for the name of any party to the merger whose separate existence ceased in the merger;

(f) The articles and bylaws or organic records of the surviving corporation are amended to the extent of the changes provided in the plan of merger;

(g) The articles and bylaws of a surviving corporation that is created by the merger become effective; and

(h) The memberships of each corporation that is a party to the merger, and the eligible interests in an eligible entity that is a party to a merger, that are to be converted under the plan of merger into memberships, eligible interests, securities, or obligations; rights to acquire memberships, eligible interests, securities, or obligations; cash; other property or other consideration; or any combination of the foregoing; are converted.

(2) A person who becomes subject to owner liability for some or all of the debts, obligations, or liabilities of any entity as a result of a merger has owner liability only to the extent provided in the organic law of the entity and only for those debts, obligations, and liabilities that arise after the effective time of the articles of merger, except to the extent that the person consented to become subject to liability under RCW 24.03A.735(8).

(3) The effect of a merger on the owner liability of a person who had owner liability for some or all of the debts, obligations, or liabilities of a party to the merger is as follows:

(a) The merger does not discharge any owner liability under the organic law of the entity in which the person was a member, shareholder, or interest holder to the extent that owner liability arose before the effective time of the articles of merger.

(b) The person does not have owner liability under the organic law of the entity in which the person was a member, shareholder, or interest holder before the merger for any debt, obligation, or liability that arises after the effective time of the articles of merger.

(c) The provisions of the organic law of any entity for which the person had owner liability before the merger continue to apply to the collection or discharge of any owner liability preserved by subsection (1) of this section, as if the merger had not occurred.

(d) The person has whatever rights of contribution from other persons are provided by the organic law of the entity for which the person had owner liability with respect to any owner liability preserved by (a) of this subsection, as if the merger had not occurred.

(4) A devise, bequest, gift, grant, or promise contained in a will or other instrument, in trust or otherwise, made before or after a merger, to or for any of the parties to the merger, inures to the survivor, subject to the express terms of the will or other instrument.

Effective date—2021 c 176: See note following RCW 24.03A.005.