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DGCL Sec. 108 - Organization Meeting
Headnote
Once a corporation is incorporated, a formal organization meeting of the initial board of directors is required to adopt corporate bylaws, and ratify any actions taken by the incorporator. This organizational meeting may be in person, or as is often the case, undertaken by relying on written consent of the directors.
TITLE 8
Corporations
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL CORPORATION LAW
Subchapter I. Formation
§ 108. Organization meeting of incorporators or directors named in certificate of incorporation.
(a) After the filing of the certificate of incorporation an organization meeting of the incorporator or incorporators, or of the board of directors if the initial directors were named in the certificate of incorporation, shall be held, either within or without this State, at the call of a majority of the incorporators or directors, as the case may be, for the purposes of adopting bylaws, electing directors (if the meeting is of the incorporators) to serve or hold office until the first annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are elected and qualify, electing officers if the meeting is of the directors, doing any other or further acts to perfect the organization of the corporation, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting.
(b) The persons calling the meeting shall give to each other incorporator or director, as the case may be, at least 2 days' written notice thereof by any usual means of communication, which notice shall state the time, place and purposes of the meeting as fixed by the persons calling it. Notice of the meeting need not be given to anyone who attends the meeting or who signs a waiver of notice either before or after the meeting.
(c) Any action permitted to be taken at the organization meeting of the incorporators or directors, as the case may be, may be taken without a meeting if each incorporator or director, where there is more than 1, or the sole incorporator or director where there is only 1, signs an instrument which states the action so taken.
8 Del. C. 1953, § 108; 56 Del. Laws, c. 50.;