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

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

Indiana § 36-4-2-16

Title 36LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Art. 4GOVERNMENT OF CITIES AND TOWNS

Ch. 2Merger of Adjoining Municipalities

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Ind. Code § 36-4-2-16 (2026).

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(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

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(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.