(a) Cooperative agricultural associations or corporations created by or under the laws of any other state, doing business in this State, and in which 3 or more of the stockholders are citizens of this State, and which are organized and operating under laws similar to this chapter, may become corporations of this State under this chapter by preparing, having approved and recorded a certificate which shall state:

(1) The name of the corporation, which shall include or be changed to include the word “cooperative”;

(2) Its purpose, which shall include 1 or more of the class of services enumerated in § 8507 of this title;

(3) The principal place where its business is to be transacted, which shall be within this State, and at which it keeps a record of the names and residences of the stockholders and the number of shares held by each;

(4) The term for which it is to exist;

(5) The number of stockholders and the total number of shares of stock outstanding;

(6) The number of its directors, and the names and residences of those elected for the current year, and the name and residence of the treasurer;

(7) The amount of its capital stock, and the number and par value of the shares into which it is divided;

(8) The name of the state and the name and citation of the statute or legislation under which it was originally created;

(9) Its financial condition at the date of the certificate, showing capital stock paid in, funded debt, floating debt, estimated value of property and cash assets, if any.

(b) The certificate shall be accompanied by another certificate, under the seal of the corporation, showing the consent of a majority in interest of the corporation to the application for a charter and to a renunciation of its original charter and of all privileges not enjoyed by corporations under this chapter under the laws of this State.

(c) Both certificates shall be acknowledged by at least 3 of the directors of the corporation before the recorder of deeds of the county in which the chief operations are to be carried on or in which the principal office is situated. The directors shall also make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the recorder of deeds to be endorsed on the certificates that the statements contained therein are true. The certificates shall then be produced to the Secretary of State, who shall examine the same, and, if he or she finds the certificates to be in proper form and within the purposes named for associations under this chapter, he or she shall approve them, and endorse his or her approval thereon, and direct a certificate of incorporation to issue in the usual form incorporating the stockholders and their successors into a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name chosen. The certificate of incorporation shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and a certified copy thereof, with all its endorsements, shall then be recorded in the office for the recording of deeds in and for the county where the chief operations are to be carried on.

(d) From the date of the certificate of incorporation, the foreign association or corporation shall be, and exist as, a corporation of this State under the provisions of this chapter and of its charter. All rights, privileges, powers, immunities, lands, property and assets of whatever kind or character possessed and owned by the original corporation, shall vest in and be owned and enjoyed by the corporation so created as fully and with like effect as if its original charter had remained in force, save as by general law and by its certificate of incorporation is expressly stated otherwise. All suits, claims and demands by the corporation, in existence at the date of the new charter, shall and may be sued, prosecuted, and collected under the laws governing the corporation prior to its new charter. Claims and demands of every nature and character in existence at the date of the new charter may be collected from and of the newly chartered corporation as fully and with like effect as if no change had taken place.

41 Del. Laws, c. 132, §§ 22-24; 3 Del. C. 1953, § 8506; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.