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15 PA Cons Stat § 402 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 402 - Governing law

§ 402. Governing law. (a) General rule.--The laws of the jurisdiction of formation of a foreign association governs the following:  (1) The internal affairs of the association. (2) The liability that a person has as an interest holder or governor for a debt, obligation or other liability of the association.  (3) The liability of a series or protected cell of a foreign association. (b) Effect of differences in law.--A foreign association is not precluded from registering to do business in this Commonwealth because of any difference between the laws of the jurisdiction of formation of the foreign association and the laws of this Commonwealth.  (c) Limitations on domestic associations applicable.--Registration of a foreign association to do business in this Commonwealth does not authorize the foreign association to engage in any activities and affairs or exercise any power that a domestic association of the same type may not engage in or exercise in this Commonwealth.  (d) Equal rights and privileges of registered foreign associations.--Except as otherwise provided by law, a registered foreign association, so long as its registration to do business is not terminated or canceled, shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as a domestic entity and shall be subject to the same liabilities, restrictions, duties and penalties now in force or hereafter imposed on domestic entities, to the same extent as if it had been formed under this title. A foreign insurance corporation shall be deemed a registered foreign association except as provided in subsection (e).  (e) Foreign insurance corporations.--A foreign insurance corporation shall, insofar as it is engaged in the business of writing insurance or reinsurance as principal, be subject to the laws of this Commonwealth regulating the conduct of the business of insurance by a foreign insurance corporation in lieu of the provisions of subsection (d) regarding its rights, privileges, liabilities, restrictions and duties and the penalties to which it may be subject.  (f) Agricultural lands.--Interests in agricultural land shall be subject to the restrictions of, and escheatable as provided by, the act of April 6, 1980 (P.L.102, No.39), referred to as the Agricultural Land Acquisition by Aliens Law.  (g) Defense of usury.--A foreign association shall be subject to section 1510 (relating to certain specifically authorized debt terms) with respect to obligations, as defined in that section, governed by the laws of this Commonwealth or affecting real property situated in this Commonwealth, to the same extent as if the foreign association were a domestic business corporation.  (Nov. 21, 2016, P.L.1328, No.170, eff. 90 days)   2016 Amendment. Act 170 added subsec. (g).  Cross References. Section 402 is referred to in sections 401, 411 of this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 403 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 403 - Activities not constituting doing business

§ 403. Activities not constituting doing business. (a) General rule.--Activities of a foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute doing business in this Commonwealth under this chapter shall include the following:  (1) Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating or settling an action or proceeding. (2) Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its interest holders or governors.  (3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions. (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of securities of the association or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to the securities.  (5) Selling through independent contractors. (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside of this Commonwealth before the orders become contracts.  (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages or security interests in property. (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting or maintaining property so acquired.  (9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions. (10) Owning, without more, property. (11) Doing business in interstate or foreign commerce. (b) Participation in other associations.--Being an interest holder or governor of a foreign association that does business in this Commonwealth shall not by itself constitute doing business in this Commonwealth.  (c) Applicability.--This section shall not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation or regulation under laws of this Commonwealth other than this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 411 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 411 - Registration to do business in this Commonwealth

§ 411. Registration to do business in this Commonwealth. (a) Registration required.--Except as provided in section 401 (relating to application of chapter) or subsection (g), a foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership may not do business in this Commonwealth until it registers with the department under this chapter.  (b) Penalty for failure to register.--A foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership doing business in this Commonwealth may not maintain an action or proceeding in this Commonwealth unless it is registered to do business under this chapter.  (c) Contracts and acts not impaired by failure to register.--The failure of a foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership to register to do business in this Commonwealth does not impair the validity of a contract or act of the foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership or preclude it from defending an action or proceeding in this Commonwealth.  (d) Limitations on liability preserved.--A limitation on the liability of an interest holder or governor of a foreign filing association or of a partner of a foreign limited liability partnership is not waived solely because the foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership does business in this Commonwealth without registering.  (e) Governing law not affected.--Section 402 (relating to governing law) applies even if a foreign association fails to register under this chapter.  (f) Registered office.--Subject to section 109 (relating to name of commercial registered office provider in lieu of registered address), every registered foreign association shall have, and continuously maintain, in this Commonwealth a registered office, which may but need not be the same as its place of business in this Commonwealth.  (g) Foreign insurance corporations.--A foreign insurance corporation is not required to register under this chapter.    Cross References. Section 411 is referred to in section 401 of this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 413 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 413 - Amendment of foreign registration statement

§ 413. Amendment of foreign registration statement. (a) General rule.--A registered foreign association shall deliver to the department for filing an amendment to its foreign registration statement if there is a change in any of the following:  (1) The name of the association. (2) The type of association, including, if it is a foreign limited partnership, whether the association became or ceased to be a foreign limited liability limited partnership.  (3) The association's jurisdiction of formation. (4) An address required by section 412(a)(4) (relating to foreign registration statement). (5) Its registered office. (6) The authority of the association to have one or more series. (b) Contents of amendment.--An amendment of a foreign registration statement shall be signed by the registered foreign association and state all of the following:  (1) The name under which the registered foreign association is registered to do business in this Commonwealth.  (2) Subject to section 109 (relating to name of commercial registered office provider in lieu of registered address), the address, including street and number, if any, of its registered office in this Commonwealth.  (3) If the amendment is not to be effective on filing, the later date or date and time on which it will become effective.  (4) The information that is to be changed. (c) Cross references.--See sections 134 (relating to docketing statement) and 135 (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents).    Cross References. Section 413 is referred to in section 419 of this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 414 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 414 - Noncomplying name of foreign association

§ 414. Noncomplying name of foreign association. (a) General rule.--A foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership whose name does not comply with Subchapter A of Chapter 2 (relating to names) may not register to do business in this Commonwealth until it adopts, for the purpose of doing business in this Commonwealth, an alternate name that complies with Subchapter A of Chapter 2. A foreign association that registers under an alternate name under this subsection is not required to comply with 54 Pa.C.S. Ch. 3 (relating to fictitious names) with respect to the alternate name. After registering to do business in this Commonwealth under an alternate name, a foreign association shall do business in this Commonwealth under any of the following:  (1) The alternate name. (2) Its proper name under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation, with the addition of the name of its jurisdiction of formation.  (3) A name the foreign association is authorized to use under 54 Pa.C.S. Ch. 3. (b) Change of name.--If a registered foreign association changes its name to one that does not comply with Subchapter A of Chapter 2, it may not do business in this Commonwealth until it complies with subsection (a) by amending its registration to adopt an alternate name that complies with Subchapter A of Chapter 2.  (c) Filed documents.--If a registered foreign association adopts an alternate name under subsection (a), the association shall use the alternate name in response to a requirement in this title that a document delivered to the department for filing state the name of the association.    Cross References. Section 414 is referred to in sections 412, 418 of this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 415 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 415 - Voluntary withdrawal of registration

§ 415. Voluntary withdrawal of registration. (a) General rule.--A registered foreign association may withdraw its registration by delivering a statement of withdrawal to the department for filing. The statement of withdrawal shall be signed by the association and state all of the following:  (1) The name of the association and its jurisdiction of formation. (2) Subject to section 109 (relating to name of commercial registered office provider in lieu of registered address), the address, including street and number, if any, of its registered office in this Commonwealth.  (3) That the association is not doing business in this Commonwealth. (4) That the association withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth. (b) Filing.--The statement of withdrawal and the certificates required by section 139 (relating to tax clearance of certain fundamental transactions) shall be delivered to the department for filing and shall take effect on filing.  (c) Cross references.--See sections 134 (relating to docketing statement) and 135 (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents).    Cross References. Section 415 is referred to in sections 4129, 6129 of this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 416 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 416 - Withdrawal deemed on certain transactions

§ 416. Withdrawal deemed on certain transactions. (a) Merger.--A registered foreign association that merges into a domestic filing entity or domestic limited liability partnership shall be deemed to have withdrawn its registration on the effective date of the merger.  (b) Conversion.--A registered foreign association that converts to any type of domestic filing entity or to a domestic limited liability partnership shall be deemed to have withdrawn its registration on the effective date of the conversion.  (c) Domestication.--A registered foreign association that domesticates in this Commonwealth as a domestic filing entity or a domestic limited liability partnership shall be deemed to have withdrawn its registration on the effective date of the domestication.    Cross References. Section 416 is referred to in sections 356, 376 of this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 417 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 417 - Required withdrawal on certain transactions

§ 417. Required withdrawal on certain transactions. (a) Application of section.--This section shall apply to a registered foreign association that has been:  (1) a nonsurviving party to a merger in which the survivor is a nonregistered foreign association;  (2) a dividing association which did not survive the division; (3) dissolved and completed winding up; (4) converted to a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership; or  (5) the domesticating entity in a domestication in which the domesticated entity is a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership.  (b) Statement of withdrawal.--A registered foreign association described in subsection (a) shall deliver a statement of withdrawal and the certificates required by section 139 (relating to tax clearance of certain fundamental transactions) to the department for filing. The statement shall be signed by the dissolved or converted association and state as follows:  (1) In the case of a foreign association that has completed winding up, all of the following: (i) The name under which the association is registered to do business in this Commonwealth and its jurisdiction of formation.  (ii) That the association withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth. (2) In the case of a foreign association that has converted to a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership, all of the following:  (i) The name under which the association is registered to do business in this Commonwealth and its jurisdiction of formation.  (ii) The type of nonfiling association to which the association has converted and its jurisdiction of formation.  (iii) That the association withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth. (3) In the case of a foreign association that has domesticated as a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership in a jurisdiction other than this Commonwealth, all of the following:  (i) The name under which the association is registered to do business in this Commonwealth and its jurisdiction of formation.  (ii) The jurisdiction of formation of the domesticated association. (iii) That the association withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth. (c) Cross references.--See sections 134 (relating to docketing statement) and 135 (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents).    Cross References. Section 417 is referred to in sections 356, 376 of this title.
15 PA Cons Stat § 418 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 418 - Transfer of registration

§ 418. Transfer of registration. (a) General rule.--If a registered foreign association merges into a nonregistered foreign association or converts to a foreign association required to register with the department to do business in this Commonwealth, the association shall deliver to the department for filing an application for transfer of registration. The application shall be signed by the surviving or converted association and state all of the following:  (1) The name of the association before the merger or conversion. (2) The type of association it was before the merger or conversion. (3) The name of the applicant association and, if the name does not comply with section 202 (relating to requirements for names generally), an alternate name adopted in accordance with section 414(a) (relating to noncomplying name of foreign association).  (4) The type of association of the applicant association and its jurisdiction of formation. (5) If different than the information for the foreign association before the merger or conversion, all of the following information regarding the applicant association:  (i) The street and mailing addresses of the principal office of the association and, if the laws of the association's jurisdiction of formation requires it to maintain an office in that jurisdiction, the street and mailing addresses of that office.  (ii) Subject to section 109 (relating to name of commercial registered office provider in lieu of registered address), the address of its registered office in this Commonwealth.  (b) Effect of application.--When an application for transfer of registration takes effect, the registration of the registered foreign association to do business in this Commonwealth is transferred without interruption to the association into which it has merged or to which it has been converted.  (c) Cross references.--See sections 134 (relating to docketing statement) and 135 (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents).
15 PA Cons Stat § 419 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations|Section 419 - Termination of registration

§ 419. Termination of registration. (a) General rule.--The department may terminate the registration of a registered foreign association in the manner provided in subsections (b) and (c) if the department finds that the association:  (1) has not amended its registration when required by section 413 (relating to amendment of foreign registration statement); or  (2) has been administratively, voluntarily or involuntarily dissolved under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation.  (b) Notice by department.--The department may terminate the registration of a registered foreign association by taking both of the following actions:  (1) Filing a notice of termination or noting the termination in the records of the department. (2) Delivering a copy of the notice or the information in the notation to the association's registered office or, if the association does not have a registered office, to the association's principal office.  (c) Contents.--The notice shall state, or the information in the notation under subsection (b) shall include, both of the following:  (1) The effective date of the termination, which shall be no less than 60 days after the date the department delivers the copy.  (2) The grounds for termination under subsection (a). (d) Effectiveness or cure.--The registration of a registered foreign association to do business in this Commonwealth shall cease on the effective date of the notice of termination or notation under subsection (b), unless before that date the association cures each ground for termination stated in the notice or notation. If the association cures each ground, the department shall file a record stating as such.
15 PA Cons Stat § 501 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 5 - Corporations|Section 501 - Reserved power of General Assembly

§ 501. Reserved power of General Assembly. (a) General rule.--All charters of private corporations and all present and future common or statutory law with respect to the formation or regulation of private corporations or prescribing powers, rights, duties or liabilities of private corporations or their officers, directors, shareholders or members may be revoked, amended or repealed.  (b) Scope.--Subsection (a) is applicable to all corporations incorporated under the authority of the Commonwealth or of the late Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania, the General Assembly having found in section 104 of the act of December 21, 1988 (P.L.1444, No.177), known as the General Association Act of 1988, that all corporations incorporated prior to October 14, 1857, which purported to register under the act of January 18, 1966 (1965 P.L.1443, No.521), referred to as the Registry Act of 1966, or companion statutes, either failed to register effectively or accepted the benefit of a law or laws passed by the General Assembly after 1873 governing the affairs of corporations.    Cross References. Section 501 is referred to in section 501 of Title 17 (Credit Unions).
15 PA Cons Stat § 502 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 5 - Corporations|Section 502 - Application of chapter

§ 502. Application of chapter.   (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in the scope provisions of subsequent provisions of this chapter, this chapter shall apply to and the word "corporation" in this chapter shall mean: (1) A domestic or foreign corporation for profit. (2) A domestic or foreign corporation not-for-profit.  (b) Corporations claiming exemption from power of the General Assembly.--Any provision of this chapter otherwise applicable to a corporation claiming exemption from the power of the General Assembly shall be inapplicable to such corporation to the extent, and only to the extent, required by the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of Pennsylvania, or both.
15 PA Cons Stat § 503 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS|Chapter 5 - Corporations|Section 503 - Actions to revoke corporate franchises

§ 503. Actions to revoke corporate franchises.   (a) General rule.--The Attorney General may institute proceedings to revoke the articles and franchises of a corporation if it: (1) misused or failed to use its powers, privileges or franchises; (2) procured its articles by fraud; or (3) should not have been incorporated under the statutory authority relied upon.  (b) Powers of court.--In every action or proceeding instituted under subsection (a), the court shall have power to wind up the affairs of and to dissolve the corporation in the manner provided in this part or as otherwise provided by law.    Cross References. Section 503 is referred to in sections 137, 1309, 1502, 1503, 2907, 5309, 5502, 5503 of this title.