Whenever a domestic or foreign corporation or domestic or foreign other business entity having any real property in this state merges or consolidates with another domestic or foreign corporation or other business entity pursuant to the laws of this state or of the state or place in which any constituent party to the merger was incorporated or organized, and the laws of the state or place of incorporation or organization (including this state) of any disappearing party to the merger provide substantially that the making and filing of the agreement of merger or consolidation or certificate of ownership or certificate of merger vests in the surviving or consolidated party to the merger all the real property of any disappearing party to the merger, the filing for record in the office of the county recorder of any county in this state in which any of the real property of that disappearing party to the merger is located of a copy of the agreement of merger or consolidation or certificate of ownership or certificate of merger, certified by the Secretary of State or an authorized public official of the state or place pursuant to the laws of which the merger or consolidation is effected, shall evidence record ownership in the surviving or consolidated party to the merger, of all interest of the disappearing party to the merger in and to the real property located in that county.

(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 437, Sec. 9.5. Effective January 1, 2000.)