A copy of the merger agreement or consolidation plan, certified by the commissioner, may be recorded in the office of the county recording officer charged with the duty of recording instruments affecting title to real property in the county, and the record shall have the same effect as if duly executed and acknowledged deeds to real property and assignments of mortgages affecting real or personal property owned by the merging or consolidating companies had been made and delivered by the merging companies to the surviving company and the consolidating companies to the new company, and had been duly recorded.

L.1983, c. 566, s. 17:14A-44