(a) If a domestic limited liability company is consolidating or merging under this chapter, the domestic limited liability company or other business entity resulting from or surviving in the consolidation or merger shall file in the manner described in section seventeen a certificate of consolidation or merger in the office of the state secretary. The certificate of consolidation or merger shall be executed in the manner described in section fifteen and shall state:

1. (1) the name and jurisdiction of formation or organization of each of the domestic limited liability companies or other business entities which is to consolidate or merge;
2. (2) that an agreement of consolidation or merger has been approved and executed by each of the domestic limited liability companies or other business entities which is to consolidate or merge;
3. (3) the name of the resulting or surviving domestic limited liability company or other business entity;
4. (4) the future effective date or time, which shall be a date or time certain, of the consolidation or merger if it is not to be effective upon the filing of the certificate of consolidation or merger;
5. (5) that the agreement of consolidation or merger is on file at a place of business of the resulting or surviving domestic limited liability company or other business entity, and shall state the address thereof;
6. (6) that a copy of the agreement of consolidation or merger will be furnished by the resulting or surviving domestic limited liability company or other business entity, on request and without cost, to any member of any domestic limited liability company or any person holding an interest in any other business entity which is to consolidate or merge; and
7. (7) if the resulting or surviving entity is not an entity organized under the laws of the commonwealth, a statement that the resulting or surviving entity agrees that, if the entity does not continuously maintain an agent for service of process in the commonwealth, to appoint irrevocably the state secretary to be its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding in the commonwealth may be served in the manner set forth in subsections (d), (e), (f) and (g) of section 15.10 of subdivision A of Part 15 of chapter 156D relative to foreign corporations.