California Code, Corporations Code - CORP § 3201

If any disappearing corporation in a merger is a social purpose corporation and the surviving entity is not a social purpose corporation, or is a social purpose corporation the articles of incorporation of which set forth materially different purposes, the merger shall be approved by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of each class, or a greater vote if required in the articles, regardless of whether that class is entitled to vote thereon by the provisions of the articles, of the disappearing social purpose corporation.  If the merger is approved, shareholders with dissenting shares, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 1300, may exercise dissenters' rights pursuant to Section 3305 and Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 1300) of Division 1.