(1) A foreign nonprofit corporation may become a domestic nonprofit corporation only if the law of the foreign jurisdiction allows the domestication.
(2) A domestic nonprofit corporation may become a foreign nonprofit corporation if the law of the foreign jurisdiction allows the domestication.
(3) Regardless of whether the laws of the foreign jurisdiction require the adoption of a plan of domestication, the domestication must be approved by the corporation's adoption of a plan of domestication in the manner provided in RCW
24.03A.755 through
24.03A.880.
(4) The plan of domestication shall include:
(a) A statement of the jurisdiction in which the corporation is to be domesticated;
(b) The terms and conditions of the domestication;
(c) The manner and basis of canceling or reclassifying the memberships of the corporation following its domestication into memberships, obligations, rights to acquire memberships, cash, other property, or any combination of the foregoing;
(d) If the corporation is a charitable corporation or is holding assets for charitable purposes, a plan setting forth how the corporation will comply with RCW
24.03A.770 (1) through (3); and
(e) Any desired changes to the articles or bylaws of the corporation in connection with its domestication.
(5) The plan of domestication may also include a provision that the plan may be amended before filing the document required by the laws of this state or the other jurisdiction to consummate the domestication; except that, after approval of the plan by the members, the plan may not be amended without the approval of the members entitled to vote thereon to change:
(a) The amount or kind of memberships, obligations, rights to acquire memberships, cash, or other property to be received by the members under the plan;
(b) The articles as they will be in effect immediately following the domestication, except for changes permitted by RCW
24.03A.655 or by comparable provisions of the laws of the other jurisdiction; or
(c) Any of the other terms or conditions of the plan if the change would adversely affect any of the members in any material respect.
(6) Terms of a plan of domestication may be made dependent upon facts objectively ascertainable outside the plan in accordance with RCW
24.03A.060(3).
(7) If any debt security, note, or similar evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed, whether secured or unsecured, or a contract of any kind, issued, incurred[,] or executed by a domestic nonprofit corporation before January 1, 2022, contains a provision applying to a merger of the corporation and the document does not refer to a domestication of the corporation, then the provision is deemed to apply to a domestication of the corporation until the provision is amended after that date.
