N.Y. Benevolent Orders Law § 7-a: Consolidation

§ 7-a. Consolidation. Any two or more of the bodies enumerated in the

preceding section, having the same parent governing body, organized

under section two of this chapter may consolidate by taking such action

at any regular communication, convocation, encampment or other regular

meeting thereof, by whatever name known, held in accordance with the

constitution and general rules and regulations of the governing body to

which it is subordinate, and in conformity to its own by-laws, and shall

thereupon proceed to effect such organization in the manner provided for

in section two, as if neither body had heretofore been organized under

its provisions. When the certificate required to be filed by such body

in the office of the secretary of state under the provisions of this

article shall be so filed such separate bodies shall thereupon become

one body, and all the temporalities, and property, whether real or

personal, now vested in the trustees of each of the bodies so

consolidated, in accordance with the provisions of section three of this

chapter shall be vested in the trustees of the body formed by the

consolidation, which shall be subject to all the liabilities of the

former bodies to the same extent as if such liabilities had been

contracted or incurred by it.