Upon filing such agreement of merger or consolidation with such certificate of the secretaries and approval of the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance endorsed thereon, in the office of the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance and the duplicate or certified copy thereof in the office of the clerk of the county or counties where the office or offices of the domestic contracting corporation or corporations is, or are, located, such agreement may be carried into effect as provided therein. The corporation so formed by or resulting from such merger or consolidation may require the return of the original certificates of stock held by each stockholder in each of the corporations involved in such merger or consolidation, and issue in lieu thereof new certificates for such number of shares of its own stock as such stockholders may be entitled to receive.

Amended by L.1938, c. 259, p. 577, s. 4.