2014 Delaware Code
Title 8 - Corporations
CHAPTER 6. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS
§ 610. Issuance of capital stock to licensed individuals; voting trust agreements prohibited; holding of stock by shareholder's estate


2 DE Code § 610 (2014 through 146th Gen Ass) What's This?

No corporation, organized under this chapter, may issue any of its capital stock to anyone other than an individual who is duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same specific professional services as those for which the corporation was incorporated. No shareholder of a corporation, organized under this chapter, shall enter into a voting trust agreement, proxy, or any other type of agreement vesting another person with the authority to exercise the voting power of any or all of such shareholder's stock. Subject to the corporation's certificate of incorporation, the estate of a shareholder who was a person duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional service as that for which the professional corporation was organized may continue to hold stock pursuant to the certificate of incorporation for a reasonable period of administration of the estate, but shall not be authorized to participate in any decisions concerning the rendering of professional service.

8 Del. C. 1953, § 610; 57 Del. Laws, c. 127; 71 Del. Laws, c. 339, § 110.;

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