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Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 701. Establishment of banks and trust companies; savings banks and national banks. - Except as specifically provided by Chapter 15 or Chapter 16...
§ 702. Applicability of other laws. - Every corporation (but not including a limited liability company) created...
§ 703. Taxation. - Every corporation and limited liability company created by or under...
§ 705. Revocation for nonuse of charters granted prior to July 1, 1933. - Every charter authorizing the establishment of a bank or trust...
§ 706. Limited liability companies as trust companies, conversions. - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,...
Subchapter II. Formation of Bank or Trust Company
§ 722. Incorporators; number and qualifications. - Three or more persons, at least 2 of whom must...
§ 723. Articles of association; contents and execution. - (a) The articles of association shall set forth that the...
§ 724. Notice of intention to incorporate; publication. - Notice of the intention of the incorporators to form a...
§ 725. Application for a certificate of public convenience and advantage. - Within 60 days after the second publication of the notice...
§ 726. Determination of public convenience. - Upon the application for a certificate that public convenience and...
§ 727. Organization meeting of incorporators; notice; proceedings. - (a) The first meeting of the incorporators shall be called...
§ 728. Articles of organization. - The president and a majority of the directors elected at...
§ 729. Approval of articles of organization. - The articles of organization, together with the records of the...
§ 730. Filing of articles of organization. - The articles of organization with the endorsement of the State...
§ 731. Certificate of incorporation; issuance, form, recording and evidence. - (a) Upon the filing of the articles of organization as...
§ 732. Commencement of corporate existence. - Upon the issuance of the certificate of incorporation or certificate...
§ 733. Commencement of business; certificate authorizing. - A certified copy of the certificate of incorporation and of...
§ 734. Revocation of charter for failure to commence business within reasonable time. - Every corporation created under this chapter shall, after the expiration...
§ 735. Fees of Secretary of State and Commissioner. - The following fees shall be collected by and paid to...
Subchapter III. Conduct of Internal Corporate Affairs
§ 741. Bylaws, adoption, amendment and repeal. - A corporation may adopt bylaws for the proper management of...
§ 742. Directors; number, quorum, term, vacancies and oath. - (a) The business of every corporation organized under this chapter...
§ 743. Stockholders' meetings; time, place, adjournment and quorum. - (a) Meetings of stockholders (except the meeting of incorporators referred...
§ 744. Voting rights of stockholders. - Each stockholder shall, at every meeting of the stockholders, be...
§ 745. Capital stock; minimum required. - The capital stock of a bank organized under this chapter...
§ 746. Par value of stock; payment for and issuance; increase and reduction. - The capital stock shall be divided into shares of a...
§ 747. Stockholders' liability. - The private property of the stockholders shall not be subject...
§ 748. Dividends. - The directors of a bank or trust company may declare...
§ 749. Amendment of charter. - (a) Banks and trust companies heretofore or hereafter created by...
§ 751. Acquisition or sale of assets, assumption of liabilities, consolidation and merger; Commissioner's approval; title to property. - (a) No bank or trust company doing business in this...
Subchapter IV. Powers and Prohibitions
§ 761. General powers of corporations organized under this chapter. - (a) A corporation established under and in compliance with this...
§ 762. Ownership of real estate used for transaction of business. - A corporation established under this chapter may hold real estate...
§ 763. Membership in Federal Reserve System. - (a) Any bank or trust company incorporated under this Code...
§ 764. Capital notes or debentures. - (a) With the approval of the State Bank Commissioner, any...
§ 765. Power of trust company. - In the case of a corporation established as a trust...
§ 766. Power of trust company to act as agent, registrar, trustee, etc. - A trust company established under this chapter may act as...
§ 767. Limitations on powers and activities of banks and trust companies. - (a) Any bank or trust company which engages in any...
§ 768. Loans on security of and purchase of its own capital stock. - No corporation established under this chapter or under Chapter 15...
§ 769. Ownership of capital stock of another bank or trust company. - No bank or trust company shall hold more than 10...
§ 770. Branch office. - (a) (1) Any bank or trust company, if authorized by...
§ 771. Foreign branch offices. - (a) Any bank or trust company having a paid-in capital...
§ 772. Automated service branch. - Any bank or resulting bank (as defined in § 795...
Subchapter V. Limited Purpose Trust Companies
§ 773. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Affiliate” means a person...
§ 774. Establishment. - A corporation established under this subchapter shall be known as...
§ 775. Powers; restrictions. - (a) With respect to a limited purpose trust company, the...
§ 776. Organization; number of incorporators. - (a) Except as otherwise required by this subchapter, the organization...
§ 777. Certificate of public convenience and advantage. - (a) In determining whether a certificate of public convenience and...
§ 778. Violations. - If any limited purpose trust company is found by the...
§ 779. Applicability of other provisions of law. - To the extent not inconsistent with the object, purpose, and...
Subchapter VI. Merger, Consolidation or Conversion of National, State Bank or Trust Company
§ 781. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Bank” means a state...
§ 782. Merger with or conversion into national bank. - (a) Nothing in the laws of this State shall restrict...
§ 783. Merger with or conversion into state bank. - Upon written approval by the State Bank Commissioner banks may...
§ 784. Premerger procedure for resulting state bank. - (a) The board of directors of each merging state bank...
§ 785. Merger procedure for resulting state bank. - Following the approval of the merger agreement both in substance...
§ 786. Conversion of national banks and federal savings associations into state banks. - (a) Except as provided in § 789 of this title,...
§ 787. Use of old name. - A resulting bank shall have the right to use the...
§ 788. Dissenting stockholders. - (a) The owner of shares of a state bank (other...
§ 789. Abandonment of trust powers and provision for successor fiduciaries. - Where a resulting state bank is not to exercise trust...
§ 790. Nonconforming assets or business. - If a merging or converting bank has assets which do...
§ 791. Book value of assets. - Without approval by the State Bank Commissioner no asset shall...
§ 792. Investigation fee. - The resulting bank shall pay to the office of the...
§ 793. Conversion of credit card institution on or after September 29, 1997. - (a) Any credit card institution formed under Chapter 15 of...
§ 794. Conversion of a building and loan association. - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a building...
Subchapter VII. Merger or Consolidation with Out-Of-State Banks
§ 795. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Bank” means a Delaware...
§ 795A. Purpose. - It is the express intent of this subchapter to permit...
§ 795B. Authority for interstate branch offices. - (a) The place of business or main office and all...
§ 795C. Merger with resulting Delaware national bank. - (a) Delaware banks may merge with or into out-of-state banks...
§ 795D. Merger with resulting Delaware state bank. - (a) Upon written approval by the State Bank Commissioner, out-of-state...
§ 795E. Merger with resulting out-of-state national bank. - (a) Existing Delaware banks may merge with or into out-of-state...
§ 795F. Merger with resulting out-of-state state bank. - (a) Existing Delaware banks may be merged with or into...
§ 795G. Authority for emergency mergers. - Notwithstanding any other provision in this title, the Commissioner may...
§ 795H. Concentration limits; approval of Commissioner. - The Commissioner may approve a merger, in accordance with §§...
§ 795I. Powers. - (a) An out-of-state state bank which establishes and maintains one...
§ 795J. Examinations; periodic reports; cooperative agreements; regulations; fees. - (a) The Commissioner may make such examinations of any branch...
§ 795K. Enforcement. - If the Commissioner determines that a branch office maintained by...
§ 795L. Regulations. - The Commissioner may promulgate regulations to carry out the Commissioner's...
§ 795M. Notice of subsequent merger, etc. - An out-of-state state bank that maintains a branch office in...
§ 795N. Other mergers or consolidations with out-of-state banks not permitted. - Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter or by applicable...
Subchapter VIII. Bank Agencies
§ 796. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Affiliate” has the meaning...
§ 796A. Authorized agency activities. - (a) Any bank may, upon compliance with the requirements of...
§ 796B. Regulations. - The Commissioner may promulgate regulations to carry out the responsibilities...