Washington Revised Code Title 24. Corporations and Associations (Nonprofit) § 24.03A.800. Effect of domestication

(a) The title to all real and personal property, both tangible and intangible, of the domesticating corporation remains in the domesticated corporation without reversion or impairment;

(b) The liabilities of the domesticating corporation remain the liabilities of the domesticated corporation;

(c) An action or proceeding pending against the domesticating corporation continues against the domesticated corporation as if the domestication had not occurred;

(d) The articles of incorporation filed pursuant to RCW 24.03A.795(3) constitute the articles of a foreign corporation domesticating in Washington state;

(e) The memberships in the domesticating corporation are reclassified into memberships, obligations, rights to acquire memberships, or cash or other property in accordance with the terms of the domestication, and the members are entitled only to the rights provided by those terms;

(f) Gift restrictions binding the domestic corporation remain in place as if the domestication had not occurred, unless modified in accordance with RCW 24.03A.190;

(g) A devise, bequest, gift, grant, or promise contained in a will or other instrument, in trust or otherwise, made to or for the domesticating corporation before or after the domestication, inures to the domesticated corporation, subject to the express terms of the will or other instrument; and

(h) The domesticating corporation is deemed to be:

(a) The domestication does not discharge any interest holder liability under the laws of the foreign jurisdiction to the extent the interest holder liability arose before the effective time of the articles of domestication.

(b) The member does not have interest holder liability under the laws of the foreign jurisdiction for any debt, obligation, or liability of the corporation that arises after the effective time of the articles of domestication.

(c) The provisions of the laws of the foreign jurisdiction continue to apply to the collection or discharge of any interest holder liability preserved by (a) of this subsection, as if the domestication had not occurred.

(d) The domestication has no effect on any member's rights of contribution from other members provided by the laws of the foreign jurisdiction with respect to any interest holder liability preserved by (a) of this subsection.