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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="12-608" title_number="12" title_name="Statutory Trusts" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Merger or Consolidation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department shall prepare certificates of merger or consolidation that specify:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The name of each party to the articles of merger or consolidation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The name of the successor and the location of its principal office in the State or, if it has none, its principal place of business; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The time the articles of merger or consolidation are accepted for record by the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In addition to any other provision of law with respect to recording, the Department shall send one certificate each to the clerk of the circuit court for each county where the articles show that a merging or consolidating statutory trust, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, or limited liability company other than the successor owns an interest in land.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On receipt of a certificate, a clerk promptly shall record it with the land records.</text>
  </level>
</section>
