(a) The place of business or main office and all branch offices of a merging bank may continue as branch offices, or one of them may be designated as the place of business or main office, of the resulting bank.
(b) A resulting bank that is an out-of-state state bank may open additional branch offices in this State in such manner as the Commissioner shall prescribe by regulation.
(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 bank or through acquisition of a branch office in this State by an out-of-state bank, without merger with a Delaware bank as provided in this subchapter.