§ 763 — Membership in Federal Reserve System

(a) Any bank or trust company incorporated under this Code or any other laws of this State may become a member of the Federal Reserve Bank, organized or to be organized in the Federal Reserve District in which such bank or trust company is located, under the act of Congress known as the Federal Reserve Act, approved December 23, 1913, and such bank or trust company may subscribe for, purchase, hold and surrender, from time to time, such amounts of the capital stock of such Federal Reserve Bank as the bank or trust company may deem advisable or as may be required under the Federal Reserve Act, or any amendment thereof, in order to obtain and continue such membership, and upon the purchase of such stock, to assume the liabilities and become entitled to the benefits recited in the Federal Reserve Act.

(b) Any corporation which becomes a member of the Federal Reserve System may, while it continues as a member bank of the System, have and exercise any and all of the corporate powers and privileges which may be exercised by member banks of the System.

Legislative History

28 Del. Laws, c. 107, § 1 ; 38 Del. Laws, c. 94, § 21 ; Code 1935, §§ 2273, 2390; 5 Del. C. 1953, § 763