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Penalty for doing business without certificate of authority - 15 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 6141

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                               SUBCHAPTER C
                      POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES

     Sec.
     6141.  Penalty for doing business without certificate of
            authority.
     6142.  General powers and duties of qualified foreign
            corporations.
     6143.  General powers and duties of nonqualified foreign
            corporations.
     6144.  Registered office of qualified foreign corporations.
     6145.  Applicability of certain safeguards to foreign
            corporations.
     6146.  Provisions applicable to all foreign corporations.

     § 6141.  Penalty for doing business without certificate of
                authority.
        (a)  Right to bring actions suspended.--No nonqualified
     foreign corporation doing business in this Commonwealth within
     the meaning of Subchapter B of this chapter (relating to
     qualification) shall be permitted to maintain any action in any
     court of this Commonwealth until such corporation shall have
     obtained a certificate of authority. Nor, except as provided in
     subsection (b) of this section, shall any action be maintained
     in any court of this Commonwealth by any successor or assignee
     of such corporation on any right, claim or demand arising out of
     the doing of business by such corporation in this Commonwealth
     until a certificate of authority shall have been obtained by
     such corporation or by a corporation which has acquired all or
     substantially all of its assets. The failure of a foreign
     corporation to obtain a certificate of authority to transact
     business in this Commonwealth shall not impair the validity of
     any contract or act of such corporation and shall not prevent
     such corporation from defending any action in any court of this
     Commonwealth.
        (b)  Title to real property.--The title to any real estate
     situate in this Commonwealth which is derived through any
     nonqualified foreign corporation not authorized under the laws
     of this Commonwealth to hold the same, and which has vested or
     vests in any foreign corporation for profit or not-for-profit
     authorized to hold such real estate or in any citizen or
     citizens of the United States or domestic corporation for profit
     or not-for-profit shall be good and valid and free and clear of
     any right of escheat by the Commonwealth; and the holder thereof
     may convey an estate indefeasible as to any right of escheat
     which the Commonwealth might otherwise have by reason of the
     unauthorized holding and conveyance by such nonqualified foreign
     corporation.

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