Sec. 3. (a) Upon the effective date of a merger, consolidation, or conversion under sections 1 and 2 of this chapter, all of the assets and property of the state chartered savings association of every kind and character, including:
(1) real, personal, and mixed property;
(2) tangible and intangible property; and
(3) choses in action, rights, and credits that:
(A) the savings association owns; or
(B) would inure to the savings association;
shall immediately, by operation of law and without any conveyance or transfer, and without any further act or deed, be vested in and become the property of the federal savings and loan association.
(b) A federal savings and loan association referred to in subsection (a) shall have, hold, and enjoy the assets and property of the state chartered savings association after a merger, consolidation, or conversion under sections 1 and 2 of this chapter in its own right, as fully and to the same extent that the assets and property were possessed, held, and enjoyed by the state chartered savings association before the merger, consolidation, or conversion.
(c) After a merger, consolidation, or conversion under sections 1 and 2 of this chapter, the federal savings and loan association is considered a continuation of the entity and identity of the state chartered savings association, and all of the rights and obligations of the savings association remain unimpaired.
(d) The federal association, at the time of the taking effect of the merger, consolidation, or conversion under sections 1 and 2 of this chapter, shall succeed to all of the rights and obligations and the duties and liabilities connected with the state chartered savings association.
As added by P.L.193-1997, SEC.2.