2023 Delaware Code › Title 5 - Banking › Chapter 7. CORPORATION LAW FOR STATE BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES › Subchapter III. Conduct of Internal Corporate Affairs › § 749. Amendment of charter.

§ 749. Amendment of charter.
(a) Banks and trust companies heretofore or hereafter created by or under this Code or any other special act or general law of this State, except as provided in Chapters 15 or 16 of this title, shall hereafter amend their charters, certificates of incorporation, certificates of formation or articles of association by and under this section.
(b) Any bank or trust company in this State whether created under this chapter or by special act of the General Assembly (but not under Chapters 15 or 16 of this title), may, from time to time, when and as desired, amend its charter, certificate of incorporation or articles of association relating to the regulation and governance of corporations established under Title 8, or, in the case of a trust company that is a limited liability company, its certificate of formation or articles of association relating to regulation and governance of limited liability companies formed under Title 6, in each case where the same are not inconsistent with the express provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, addition to its corporate powers and purposes, or diminution thereof, or both (provided such additional corporate power or purpose to be such as is authorized or contemplated under any of the provisions of this chapter); or by increasing or decreasing its authorized capital stock (provided that such increase or decrease be expressly approved by the State Bank Commissioner, and provided also that the capital stock shall not be reduced below the amount prescribed by § 745 of this title); by changing the number or par value of its shares of stock; or by changing its corporate title (provided that the word “savings” shall not be used in the amended title, and provided further that no corporation not authorized to do a trust company business shall use the word “trust” in its amended title); and by increasing or decreasing its number of directors (provided that in no case shall the whole number of directors be less than 5). Any or all such changes or alterations may be effected by 1 certificate of amendment. No amendment shall contain a provision which would not have been lawful and proper to insert in an original charter, certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation or articles of association adopted granted or issued under this chapter, but nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the increase in capital stock of a trust company organized prior to February 28, 1933 and authorized by a certificate issued by the State Bank Commissioner to transact the business of a trust company on January 1, 1997, to any amount which may be less than required in § 745 of this title. In the case of an increase of capital stock, the amendment may provide that the increased stock may in whole or in part be disposed of without being offered to the stockholders, but in no case shall any stock be issued except upon payment in full in cash.
(c) The procedure for amendment and the manner of making and effecting the same shall be as prescribed in Chapter 1 of Title 8 for the amendment of the certificate of incorporation of a corporation having a capital stock or, in the case of a trust company that is a limited liability company, as prescribed in Chapter 18 of Title 6 for the amendment of the certificate of formation or limited liability company agreement of a limited liability company. No certificate of amendment shall be received or filed by the Secretary of State or be deemed or held to be effective unless and until the proposed certificate of amendment shall have been submitted to the State Bank Commissioner and shall have been approved both in substance and in form by said Commissioner.
38 Del. Laws, c. 94, §§  3, 30;  Code 1935, §§  2372, 2399;  46 Del. Laws, c. 251, §  3;  5 Del. C. 1953, §  749;  49 Del. Laws, c. 121;  51 Del. Laws, c. 15;  57 Del. Laws, c. 740, §  19A;  64 Del. Laws, c. 386, §  3;  66 Del. Laws, c. 26, §  1;  71 Del. Laws, c. 19, §  21;  71 Del. Laws, c. 25, §§  9, 10;  76 Del. Laws, c. 383, §§  9-13;