Section 17554.

(a) Upon a merger of limited liability companies or limited liability companies and other business entities pursuant to this chapter, the separate existence of the disappearing limited liability companies and disappearing other business entities ceases and the surviving limited liability company or surviving other business entity shall succeed, without other transfer, act, or deed, to all the rights and property, whether real, personal, or mixed, of each of the disappearing limited liability companies and disappearing other business entities and shall be subject to all the debts and liabilities of each in the same manner as if the surviving limited liability company or surviving other business entity had itself incurred them.

(b) All rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of each of the constituent limited liability companies and constituent other business entities shall be preserved unimpaired and may be enforced against the surviving limited liability company or the surviving other business entity to the same extent as if the debt, liability, or duty that gave rise to that lien had been incurred or contracted by it, provided that such liens upon the property of a disappearing limited liability company or disappearing other business entity shall be limited to the property affected thereby immediately prior to the time the merger is effective.

(c) Any action or proceeding pending by or against any disappearing limited liability company or disappearing other business entity may be prosecuted to judgment, that shall bind the surviving limited liability company or surviving other business entity, or the surviving limited liability company or surviving other business entity may be proceeded against or be substituted in the disappearing limited liability company's or disappearing other business entity's place.

(d) If a partnership is a party to a merger nothing in this chapter is intended to affect the liability a general partner of a disappearing partnership may have in connection with the debts and liabilities of the disappearing partnership existing prior to the time the merger is effective.

(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1200, Sec. 27. Effective September 30, 1994. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, pursuant to Section 17657. Thereafter, see Title 2.6, commencing with Section 17701.01.)