2012 Delaware Code
Title 3 - Agriculture
CHAPTER 79. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS CONCERNING ANIMALS
§ 7901. Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

(a) Incorporation. -- The Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated and made a body politic and corporate in law.

(b) Objects. -- The objects of the Society are to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the State and to conduct educational or other programs as specified in its bylaws.

(c) Powers. -- The Society shall have the power to enforce all laws enacted for the protection of animals; to purchase, print and circulate books and publications designed to promote the objects of the Society; to appoint or employ such agents or employees as the Board of Directors may from time to time deem necessary; to sue and be sued, in its corporate name, in any court in this State or elsewhere; to exercise all of the legal incidents common to a body corporate, including the right to use a seal, to receive legacies and donations, to acquire by purchase and transfer by sale, lease or mortgage real estate or any interest therein; to make and perform contracts of every kind with any person, corporation, government, state, county or municipality which are designed to promote the objects of the Society.

(d) Offices. -- The principal office of the Society shall be located in the County of New Castle, but the Society is authorized and empowered to establish branch offices at any place or places within the State.

(e) Existence. -- The Society shall have perpetual existence.

(f) Management. -- The affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a Board of Directors, the size, selection, and tenure of which shall be prescribed in the Society's bylaws, and whose powers and duties are as described in the bylaws and as otherwise given by the laws of this State to corporate directors.

(g) Membership. -- Membership in the Society shall be open to all persons interested in the objects of the Society; provided, however, that the bylaws may prescribe conditions of membership, including an annual dues or assessment. The private property of the members of the Society shall not be subject to the payment of Society debts to any extent whatsoever.

(h) Officers. -- The officers of the Society shall be selected by the Board of Directors and shall be those officers provided for in the bylaws.

(i) Bylaws. -- The Society shall have the power to adopt a code of bylaws and said bylaws shall be binding upon the Society and its members until modified or rescinded as provided for in its bylaws.

Code 1935, § 2556; 49 Del. Laws, c. 256, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 118, §§ 1, 2.;