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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="3-112" title_number="3" title_name="Corporations in General -- Extraordinary Actions" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Consolidation, Merger, and Transfer of Assets">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In order to keep the land assessment records current in each county, the Department shall require a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, or business trust to submit with the articles a property certificate for each county where a merging corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, or business trust other than the successor or a consolidating corporation owns an interest in land.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A property certificate is not required with respect to any property in which the only interest owned by the merging corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, or business trust or by the consolidating corporation is a security interest.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The property certificate shall be in the form and number of copies which the Department requires and may include the certificate of the Department required by § 3-111 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The property certificate shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Provide a deed reference or other description sufficient to identify the property; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>State the actual consideration paid or to be paid for the property.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department shall indicate on the certificate the time the articles are accepted for record and send a copy of it to the chief assessor of the county where the property is located.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A transfer, vesting, or devolution of title to the property is not invalidated or otherwise affected by any error or defect in the property certificate, failure to file it, or failure of the Department to act on it.</text>
  </level>
</section>
