§ 139. Tax clearance of certain fundamental transactions.
(a) Requirement.--Except as provided in subsection (c) or (d), clearance certificates from the Department of Revenue and the Department of Labor and Industry, evidencing the payment by the association of all taxes and charges due the Commonwealth required by law, must be delivered to the department for filing when any of the following is delivered to the department for filing:
(1) Articles or a statement or certificate of merger merging a domestic association into a nonregistered foreign association.
(2) Articles or a statement or certificate of conversion or domestication effecting a conversion or domestication of a domestic association into a nonregistered foreign association.
(3) Articles or a certificate of dissolution or a statement of revival of a domestic association.
(4) An application for termination of registration, statement of withdrawal or similar document by a registered foreign association.
(5) Articles or a statement or certificate of division dividing a domestic association solely into foreign associations.
(b) Tax clearance in judicial proceedings.--Until the clearance certificates described in subsection (a) have been filed with the court:
(1) The court shall not order the dissolution of a domestic business corporation, nonprofit corporation or business trust.
(2) The court shall not approve a final distribution of the assets of a domestic general partnership, limited partnership, electing partnership or limited liability company if the court is supervising the winding up of the association.
(c) Alternative provisions.--If clearance certificates are filed with the court as required under subsection (b), it shall not be necessary to file the clearance certificates with the Department of State.
(d) Registration of foreign associations.--It shall not be necessary to deliver clearance certificates under subsection (a) if, simultaneously with the delivery of the articles, statement or certificate of merger, conversion, division or domestication:
(1) the foreign association that is the surviving, converted or domesticated association registers to do business in this Commonwealth; or
(2) at least one of the new foreign associations resulting from the division registers to do business in this Commonwealth.
(Dec. 7, 1994, P.L.703, No.106, eff. 60 days; June 22, 2001, P.L.418, No.34, eff. 60 days; Oct. 22, 2014, P.L.2640, No.172, eff. July 1, 2015)
2014 Amendment. Act 172 amended subsec. (a) and added subsec. (d).
Cross References. Section 139 is referred to in sections 135, 335, 355, 366, 375, 415, 417, 1341, 1977, 1989, 5341, 5955, 5977, 5989, 8359, 8513, 8573, 8973, 8975 of this title; section 1305 of Title 17 (Credit Unions).
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