Delaware Code
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 903. Consolidation of telegraph or telephone corporations.

(a) Any telegraph or telephone corporation of this State, whether created by prior special act or under Chapter 1 of Title 8, may consolidate with any other telegraph or telephone company incorporated under the laws of this State, or any other state, or of the United States, whose telegraph or telephone lines, within or without this State, connect or form continuous lines with the telegraph or telephone lines of the company so consolidated, subject to the provisions of Chapter 1 of this title. Such consolidation shall be made in the manner and by the proceedings prescribed in Chapter 1 of Title 8.
(b) The corporation created thereby shall be possessed of, exercise and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges which Chapter 1 of Title 8 confers upon consolidated companies. It shall likewise be possessed of and exercise and enjoy all the franchises, rights, powers, privileges, immunities and benefits which any corporation of this State, constituent thereof, was possessed of or entitled to exercise under its charter or any law of this State. It shall be subject within this State to the conditions and restrictions imposed by its charter on any corporation of this State, constituent thereof.

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