Delaware Code
Subchapter III. Management of the Common Interest Community
§ 81-306. Bylaws.

(a) The bylaws of the association must provide for:

(1) The number of members of the executive board and the titles of the officers of the association;
(2) Election by the executive board, or if the declaration so requires by the unit owners, of a president, treasurer, secretary, and any other officers of the association specified in the bylaws;
(3) The qualifications, powers and duties, terms of office, and manner of electing and removing executive board members and officers and filling vacancies;
(4) Which of its powers the executive board or officers may delegate to other persons or to a managing agent;
(5) Which of its officers may prepare, execute, certify, and record amendments to the declaration on behalf of the association;
(6) For an association for a condominium or cooperative with more than 50 unit owners, an independent audit by a licensed certified public accounting firm of the financial records of the association to be performed no less frequently than once every 3 years and for each intervening year a review (instead of a full audit) by an independent accountant which need not be conducted by a certified public accounting firm, provided that where an association of fewer than 100 unit owners so decides by duly adopted resolution, the audit requirement may be satisfied by a review (instead of a full audit) by an independent accountant which need not be conducted by a certified public accounting firm;
(7) A method for amending the bylaws by the unit owners;
(8) Any provisions that may be necessary to satisfy requirements in this chapter or the declaration concerning meetings, voting, quorums and other matters concerning the activities of the association; and
(9) Any other matters required by the laws of this State to appear in the bylaws of legal entities organized in the same manner as the association.
(b) (1) Subject to the provisions of the declaration, the bylaws may provide for any other matters the association deems necessary and appropriate unless the declaration or this chapter requires that those provisions appear in the declaration.
(2) The bylaws of any condominium or cooperative common interest community may expressly require that all unit owners designate the unit owners' association for such community as a third party to receive notification of a termination of utility service under any third-party notification program maintained by a gas or electricity utility pursuant to § 117(b) of Title 26.

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