Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
8 Del. C. § 274
Dissolution before issuance of shares or beginning of business; procedure
If a corporation has not issued shares or has not commenced the business for which the corporation was organized, a majority of the incorporators, or, if directors were named in the certificate of incorporation or have been elected, a majority of the directors, may surrender all of the corporation’s rights and franchises by filing in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate, executed and acknowledged by a majority of the incorporators or directors, stating: that no shares of stock have been issued or that the business or activity for which the corporation was organized has not been begun; the date of filing of the corporation’s original certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State; that no part of the capital of the corporation has been paid, or, if some capital has been paid, that the amount actually paid in for the corporation’s shares, less any part thereof disbursed for necessary expenses, has been returned to those entitled thereto; that if the corporation has begun business but it has not issued shares, all debts of the corporation have been paid; that if the corporation has not begun business but has issued stock certificates, all issued stock certificates, if any, have been surrendered and cancelled; and that all rights and franchises of the corporation are surrendered. Upon such certificate becoming effective in accordance with § 103 of this title, the corporation shall be dissolved.
Amendment history
56 Del. Laws, c. 50; 59 Del. Laws, c. 106, § 13; 66 Del. Laws, c. 136, § 33; 77 Del. Laws, c. 290, § 24
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In this title (40 sections)
- 8-252 · Merger or consolidation of domestic and foreign corporations;…
- 8-253 · Merger of parent corporation and subsidiary corporation or…
- 8-254 · Merger or consolidation of domestic corporations and…
- 8-255 · Merger or consolidation of domestic nonstock corporations
- 8-256 · Merger or consolidation of domestic and foreign nonstock…
- 8-257 · Merger or consolidation of domestic stock and nonstock…
- 8-258 · Merger or consolidation of domestic and foreign stock and…
- 8-259 · Status, rights, liabilities, of constituent and surviving or…
- 8-260 · Powers of corporation surviving or resulting from merger or…
- 8-261 · Remedies; appointment of stockholder representatives; effect of…
- 8-262 · Appraisal rights [For application of this section, see 81 Del.…
- 8-263 · Merger or consolidation of domestic corporations and…
- 8-264 · Merger or consolidation of domestic corporations and limited…
- 8-265 · Conversion of other entities to a domestic corporation [For…
- 8-266 · Conversion of a domestic corporation to other entities [For…
- 8-267 · Merger of parent entity and subsidiary corporation or…
- 8-268 · Amendments to certificate of incorporation of the surviving…
- 8-271 · Sale, lease or exchange of assets; consideration; procedure
- 8-272 · Mortgage or pledge of assets
- 8-273 · Dissolution of joint venture corporation having 2 stockholders
- 8-274 · Dissolution before issuance of shares or beginning of business;…
- 8-275 · Dissolution generally; procedure
- 8-276 · Dissolution of nonstock corporation; procedure
- 8-277 · Payment of franchise taxes before dissolution, merger, transfer…
- 8-278 · Continuation of corporation after dissolution for purposes of…
- 8-279 · Trustees or receivers for dissolved corporations; appointment;…
- 8-280 · Notice to claimants; filing of claims
- 8-281 · Payment and distribution to claimants and stockholders
- 8-282 · Liability of stockholders of dissolved corporations
- 8-283 · Jurisdiction
- 8-284 · Revocation or forfeiture of charter; proceedings
- 8-285 · Dissolution or forfeiture of charter by decree of court; filing
- 8-291 · Receivers for insolvent corporations; appointment and powers
- 8-292 · Title to property; filing order of appointment; exception
- 8-293 · Notices to stockholders and creditors
- 8-294 · Receivers or trustees; inventory; list of debts and report
- 8-295 · Creditors’ proofs of claims; when barred; notice
- 8-296 · Adjudication of claims; appeal
- 8-297 · Sale of perishable or deteriorating property
- 8-298 · Compensation, costs and expenses of receiver or trustee