KRS 362.2-958: Filings required for merger -- Effective date.

(1) After a plan of merger is approved by each domestic or foreign partnership, limited

partnership, limited liability company, or corporation that is a party to the merger,

the surviving domestic or foreign partnership, limited partnership, limited liability

company, or corporation shall deliver to the Secretary of State for filing articles of

merger duly executed by each party to the merger setting forth:

(a) The name and jurisdiction of formation or organization of each constituent

business entity which is to merge;

(b) The plan of merger;

(c) The name of the surviving business entity;

(d) A statement that the plan of merger was duly authorized and approved by each

constituent business entity in accordance with the laws applicable to such

business entity; and

(e) If the surviving entity is not a business entity organized under the laws of this

Commonwealth, a statement that the surviving business entity:

1. Agrees that it may be served with process in this Commonwealth in any

proceeding for enforcement of any obligation of any constituent business

entity party to the merger that was organized under the laws of this

Commonwealth, as well as for enforcement of any obligation of the

surviving business entity arising from the merger; and

2. Appoints the Secretary of State as its agent for service of process in any

such proceedings. The surviving entity shall specify the address to which

a copy of process shall be mailed to it by the Secretary of State.

(2) The merger shall take effect on the later of the date of the filing of the articles of

merger or the date set forth in the articles of merger, in which case it shall not be

later than ninety (90) days after the date on which the articles of merger were filed.

(3) Upon the merger taking effect, if the surviving enti ty in the merger is a foreign

partnership, limited partnership, or limited liability company, the entity shall be

deemed:

(a) To appoint the Secretary of State as its agent for service of process in a

proceeding to enforce any obligation or rights of disse nting shareholders of

each domestic corporation party to the merger; and

(b) To agree that it will promptly pay to the dissenting shareholders of each

domestic corporation party to the merger the amount, if any, to which they are

entitled under Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 271B.

(4) The articles of merger filed by the surviving entity in accordance with this section

shall also be deemed to have been filed for any domestic limited liability company

party to the merger in accordance with the applicable provisions of KRS Chapter

275 and for any domestic corporation party to the merger in accordance with KRS

Chapter 271B.

(5) The filing of articles of merger shall act to cancel the certificate of limited

partnership for a domestic limited partnership that is not the surviving entity of the

merger and that partnership's certificate of limited partnership shall be canceled

upon the effective date of the articles of merger.