§ 36-4-2-16 — Effect of merger; rights, powers, and liabilities; pending actions

(a) After a merger under this chapter takes
effect, the new municipality:
(1) has all the rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and
obligations of the merging municipalities;
(2) is liable for all the debts, contracts, and liabilities of the
merging municipalities;
(3) is entitled to all the rights, credits, monies, and properties of
the merging municipalities; and
(4) may, in the name adopted in the merger, sue and be sued in
relation to the debts, contracts, liabilities, rights, credits, monies,
and properties of the merging municipality.
(b) After a merger under this chapter takes effect, pending actions
that involve municipalities taking part in the merger shall be
prosecuted to final judgment and execution, and judgments rendered
in those actions may be executed and enforced against the new
municipality without any change of the name of the plaintiff or
defendant.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-5-10-8
part; 18-5-10-17 part; 18-5-10-18.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.3.