34 Pa. Code § 125.145 – Merger of funds.

(a) Subject to the prior written approval of the Bureau, a fund may merge with another fund with the same homogeneous characteristics if the resulting fund assumes in full all obligations of the merging funds.
(b) The resulting fund may be a continuing fund under the name of one or more of the merged funds or a new fund whose name shall be subject to the Bureau’s approval. In all respects, the continuing fund or the new fund shall be subject to this subchapter. Funds merging under this section shall enter into a written agreement for the merger prescribing the merger’s terms and conditions. The agreement shall be the following:
1. (1) Assented to by a majority of the plan committee and the board of trustees of each fund.
2. (2) Executed in duplicate by a majority of the board of trustees of each fund.
3. (3) Accompanied by copies of the resolutions authorizing the merger and the execution of the agreement attested by the recording officer of each fund.
4. (4) Submitted to the Bureau, with the records of the fund pertaining thereto.
(c) If the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) have been complied with, the Bureau will issue a new permit to the merged fund with the powers retained and specified in the agreement.
(d) Upon merger, the rights and properties of the several funds shall accrue to and become the property of the merged fund, which shall succeed to all the obligations and liabilities of the merged funds, in the same manner as if they had been incurred or contracted by it. The members of the merged fund shall continue to be subject to all the liabilities, claims and demands existing against them at or before the merger.
(e) No action or proceeding pending at the time of the merger in which any or all of the funds merged may be a party will abate or be discontinued by reason of the merger, but the same may be prosecuted to final judgment in the same manner as if the merger had not taken place, or the continuing fund or the new fund may be substituted in place of a fund so merged by order of the court in which the action or proceeding may be pending.
(f) Members of either merging fund who do not wish to belong to the merged fund may withdraw their membership at the time of the merger without penalty. They will remain jointly and severally liable for the claims, expenses and other obligations incurred by the fund during the period of their membership and prior to the merger.