A. Unless the corporation commission [secretary of state] disapproves pursuant to Subsection A of Section 53-8-91 NMSA 1978, the merger or consolidation shall become effective upon delivery of the articles of merger or of consolidation to the corporation commission [secretary of state], or on such later date, not more than thirty days subsequent to the delivery thereof to the corporation commission [secretary of state], as shall be provided for in the articles.

B. When a merger or consolidation has been effected:

(1) the several corporations parties to the plan of merger or consolidation shall be a single corporation, which, in the case of a merger, shall be that corporation designated in the plan of merger as the surviving corporation, and, in the case of a consolidation, shall be the new corporation provided for in the plan of consolidation;

(2) the separate existence of all corporations parties to the plan of merger or consolidation, except the surviving or new corporation, shall cease;

(3) the surviving or new corporation shall have all the rights, privileges, immunities and powers and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities of a corporation organized under the Nonprofit Corporation Act;

(4) the surviving or new corporation shall thereupon and thereafter possess all the rights, privileges, immunities and franchises, as well of a public as of a private nature, of each of the merging or consolidating corporations; and all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debts due on whatever account, and all other choses in action, and all and every other interest, of or belonging to or due to each of the corporations so merged or consolidated, shall be taken and deemed to be transferred to and vested in the single corporation without further act or deed; and the title to any real estate, or any interest therein, vested in any of the corporations shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of the merger or consolidation;

(5) the surviving or new corporation shall thenceforth be responsible and liable for all the liabilities and obligations of each of the corporations so merged or consolidated; and any claim existing or action or proceeding pending by or against any of the corporations may be prosecuted as if the merger or consolidation had not taken place, or the surviving or new corporation may be substituted in its place. Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon the property of any such corporation shall be impaired by the merger or consolidation; and

(6) in the case of a merger, the articles of incorporation of the surviving corporation shall be deemed to be amended to the extent, if any, that changes in its articles of incorporation are stated in the plan of merger; and, in the case of a consolidation, the statements set forth in the articles of consolidation and which are required or permitted to be set forth in the articles of incorporation of corporations organized under the Nonprofit Corporation Act shall be deemed to be the articles of incorporation of the new corporation.

History: 1953 Comp., § 51-14-86, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 217, § 44; 1983, ch. 304, § 13.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 2013, ch. 75, § 9 provided that as of July 1, 2013, the secretary of state, pursuant to N.M. const., Art. 11, § 19, shall assume responsibility for chartering corporations as provided by law, including the performance of the functions of the former corporations bureau of the public regulation commission, and that except for Subsection D of 53-5-8 NMSA 1978, references to the "public regulation commission", "state corporation commission" or "commission" shall be construed to be references to the secretary of state. See 8-4-7 NMSA 1978.

The 1983 amendment, effective June 17, 1983, rewrote Subsection A to the extent that a detailed comparison would be impracticable.