Whenever the vote of stockholders at a meeting thereof is required or permitted to be taken in connection with any corporate action, by any section of this chapter, the meeting and vote of stockholders may be dispensed with, if all of the stockholders who would have been entitled to vote upon the action if such meeting were held, shall consent in writing to such corporate action being taken. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter or modify the provisions of section 281 of this chapter. In the event that the action which is consented to is such as would have required the filing of a certificate under any of the other sections of this chapter, if such action had been voted upon by the stockholders at a meeting thereof, the certificate filed under such other section shall state that written consent has been given hereunder, in lieu of stating that the stockholders have voted upon the corporate action in question, if such last mentioned statement is required thereby.