(a) When a fraternal benefit society has complied with the provisions of this chapter and with the laws of this state relating to domestic stock life insurers or domestic mutual life insurers, as the case may be, and has received from the commissioner a certificate of authority to transact business in this state, its reorganization and conversion into such stock insurer or mutual insurer shall be complete.

(b) The reorganized and converted corporation shall be deemed in law to be a continuation of the fraternal benefit society, whether the reorganization and conversion shall have been accomplished by the formation of a new corporation or by the amendment of the certificate of incorporation of the former society; and such reorganized and converted corporation shall succeed to, and become invested with, all and singular, the rights, privileges, franchises, and all property, real, personal, or mixed, and all debts due on any account and all other things in action theretofore belonging to such fraternal benefit society; and all property, rights, privileges, franchises, and all and every other interest shall thereafter be as effectually the property of such reorganized and converted corporation as they were of the former fraternal benefit society; and the title to any real estate, by deed or otherwise vested in such former fraternal benefit society, shall vest in such reorganized and converted corporation and shall not in any way be impaired by reason of the conversion.