489.14608  Application of section 489.14404 after merger.
  1.  A creditor’s right that existed under section 489.14404 immediately before a merger under section 489.14604 may be enforced after the merger in accordance with all of the following:
  a.  A creditor’s right that existed immediately before the merger against the surviving company, a continuing protected series, or a relocated protected series continues without change after the merger.
  b.  A creditor’s right that existed immediately before the merger against a nonsurviving company all of the following apply:
  (1)  May be asserted against an asset of the nonsurviving company which vested in the surviving company as a result of the merger.
  (2)  Does not otherwise change.
  c.  Subject to subsection 2, all of the following apply:
  (1)  In addition to the remedy stated in paragraph “a”, a creditor with a right under section 489.14404 which existed immediately before the merger against a nonsurviving company or a relocated protected series may assert the right against any of the following:
  (a)  An asset of the surviving company, other than an asset of the nonsurviving company which vested in the surviving company as a result of the merger.
  (b)  An asset of a continuing protected series.
  (c)  An asset of a protected series established by the surviving company as a result of the merger.
  (d)  If the creditor’s right was against an asset of the nonsurviving company, an asset of a relocated series.
  (e)  If the creditor’s right was against an asset of a relocated protected series, an asset of another relocated protected series.
  (2)  In addition to the remedy stated in paragraph “b”, a creditor with a right that existed immediately before the merger against the surviving company or a continuing protected series may assert the right against any of the following:
  (a)  An asset of a relocated protected series.
  (b)  An asset of a nonsurviving company which vested in the surviving company as a result of the merger.
  2.  For the purposes of subsection 1, paragraph “c”, and section 489.14404, subsection 2, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (1); section 489.14404, subsection 2, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (1); and section 489.14404, subsection 2, paragraph “c”, subparagraph (1), the incurrence date is deemed to be the date on which the merger becomes effective.
  3.  A merger under section 489.14604 does not affect the manner in which section 489.14404 applies to a liability incurred after the merger.
2019 Acts, ch 26, §34, 41
Referred to in §489.14404, 489.14604
Section takes effect July 1, 2020; 2019 Acts, ch 26, §41
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