(1) Except as provided in 35-2-609, one or more foreign business or nonprofit corporations may merge with one or more domestic nonprofit corporations if:
(a) the merger is permitted by the law of the state, tribe, or country under whose law each foreign corporation is incorporated and each foreign corporation complies with that law in effecting the merger; or
(b) the foreign corporation complies with 35-2-611 if it is the surviving corporation of the merger; and
(c) each domestic nonprofit corporation complies with the applicable provisions of 35-2-608 through 35-2-610 and, if it is the surviving corporation of the merger, with the provisions of 35-2-611.
(2) When the merger takes effect, the surviving foreign business or nonprofit corporation may be served with process in any proceeding brought against it as provided in 35-7-113.