North Dakota Code 45-21-06 – (906) Effect of merger
1. When a merger takes effect:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 45-21-06
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Partnership: includes a limited liability partnership registered under chapter 45-22. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
a. The separate existence of each constituent partnership that is a party to the merger, other than the surviving organization, ceases; b. All property owned by each of the constituent partnerships vests in the surviving organization; c. All obligations of each constituent partnership become the obligations of the surviving organization; and
d. An action or proceeding pending against a constituent partnership may be continued as if the merger had not occurred, or the surviving organization may be substituted as a party to the action or proceeding.
2. The secretary of state of this state is the agent for service of process in an action or proceeding against a surviving foreign partnership to enforce an obligation of a partnership that is a constituent organization. The surviving organization shall promptly notify the secretary of state of the mailing address of its principal executive office and of any change of address. Upon receipt of process, the secretary of state shall mail a copy of the process to the surviving foreign partnership as provided in section 10-01.1-13.
3. A general partner of the surviving partnership is liable for:
a. All obligations of a party to the merger for which the general partner was personally liable before the merger; b. All other obligations of the surviving organization incurred before the merger by a constituent organization, but those obligations may be satisfied only out of property of the surviving organization; and
c. All obligations of the surviving organization incurred after the merger takes effect.
4. If the obligations incurred before the merger by a constituent partnership are not satisfied out of the property of the surviving organization, then the general partners of the constituent partnership immediately before the effective date of the merger shall contribute the amount necessary to satisfy the obligations of the constituent partnership to the surviving organization, in the manner provided in section 45-20-07.
5. A partner of a constituent partnership who does not receive an ownership interest of the surviving organization is dissociated from the partnership, of which that partner was a partner, as of the date the merger takes effect. The surviving organization shall cause the ownership interest of the partner in the constituent partnership to be purchased under section 45-19-01 or another statute specifically applicable to that ownership interest of that partner with respect to a merger. The surviving organization is bound under section 45-19-02 by an act of a general partner dissociated under this subsection, and the partner is liable under section 45-19-03 for transactions entered into by the surviving organization after the merger takes effect.