1. (a) The place of business or main office and all branch offices of a merging existing Delaware bank may continue as resulting branch offices of the out-of-state foreign bank.
2. (b) An out-of-state foreign bank with resulting branch offices in this State may open additional branch offices in this State in such manner as the Commissioner shall prescribe by regulation.
3. (c) Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to permit interstate branching either through the original establishment of a branch office in this State by an out-of-state foreign bank or through acquisition of a branch office in this State by an out-of-state foreign bank, without merger with a Delaware bank as provided in this subchapter.

71 Del. Laws, c. 254, § 26