15 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 1 - General Provisions

• Chapter Notes

Subchapter A.  Preliminary Provisions

• Section 101 - Short Title And Application Of Title
  (a) Short title of title.--This title shall be known and may be cited as the Associations Code. (b) Application of title.--Except as otherwise provided...
• Section 102 - Definitions
  (a) Defined terms.--Subject to additional or inconsistent definitions contained in subsequent provisions of this title that are applicable to specific provisions of this title,...
• Section 103 - Subordination Of Title To Regulatory Laws
  (a) Regulatory laws unaffected.--This title is not intended to authorize any corporation or other association to do any act prohibited by any statute regulating...
• Section 104 - Equitable Remedies
  Except to the extent otherwise provided in this title in cases where a statutory remedy is provided by this title, the court shall have...
• Section 105 - Fees
  (a) General rule.--The Department of State shall be entitled to receive for services performed, as required by this title and other applicable provisions of...
• Section 106 - Effect Of Filing Papers Required To Be Filed
  The filing of articles or of any other papers or documents pursuant to the provisions of this title is required for the purpose of...
• Section 107 - Form Of Records
  (a) General rule.--Information maintained by a corporation or other association in the regular course of its business, including shareholder or membership records, books of...
• Section 108 - Change In Location Or Status Of Registered Office Provided By Agent
  (a) General rule.--Where the registered office of a corporation or other association is stated to be in care of or is in fact in...
• Section 109 - Name Of Commercial Registered Office Provider In Lieu Of Registered Address
  (a) General rule.--Where any provision of this title authorizes or requires the inclusion of a registered office address in any document filed in the...
• Section 110 - Supplementary General Principles Of Law Applicable
  Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this title, the principles of law and equity, including, but not limited to, the law relating to...
• Section 111 - Relation Of Title To Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act
  (a) General rule.--Except as set forth in subsection (b), this title modifies, limits and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act...
• Section 112 - Receipt Of Electronic Communications
  (a) Requirements.--Unless otherwise provided in the organic rules of an entity or otherwise agreed between the sender and the recipient, an electronic communication is...
• Section 113 - Delivery Of Document
  (a) Permissible means.--Permissible means of delivery of a document in record form include: (1) personal delivery; (2) mail; (3) conventional commercial practice; and (4)...

Subchapter B.  Functions and Powers of Department of State

• Section 131 - Application Of Subchapter
  As used in this subchapter, the term "this title" includes Titles 17 (relating to credit unions) and 54 (relating to names) and any other...
• Section 132 - Functions Of Department Of State
  (a) General rule.--The function of the Department of State under this title is to act in a manner comparable to the offices of recorder...
• Section 133 - Powers Of Department Of State
  (a) General rule.--The department has the power and authority reasonably necessary to enable it to administer this subchapter efficiently and to perform the functions...
• Section 134 - Docketing Statement
  (a) General rule.--The department may, but shall not be required to, prescribe by regulation one or more official docketing statement forms designed to elicit...
• Section 135 - Requirements To Be Met By Filed Documents
  (a) General rule.--A document shall be accepted for filing by the department if it satisfies the following requirements: (1) The document purports on its...
• Section 136 - Processing Of Documents By Department Of State
  (a) Filing of documents.--If a document conforms to section 135 (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents) the Department of State shall...
• Section 137 - Court To Pass Upon Rejection Of Documents By Department Of State
  (a) General rule.--Whenever the Department of State rejects a document delivered for filing under this title or fails to make available a certified duplicate...
• Section 138 - Statement Of Correction
  (a) Filing of statement.--Whenever any document authorized or required to be delivered to the department for filing by any provision of this title has...
• Section 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...
• Section 140 - Custody And Management Of Orphan Corporate And Business Records
  (a) General rule.--Any orphan corporate and business record under the custody or control of a county, including the City and County of Philadelphia, may...
• Section 141 - Abandonment Of Filing Before Effectiveness
  (a) General rule.--A document in record form delivered to the department for filing may be abandoned before it takes effect by delivering to the...
• Section 142 - Effect Of Signing Filings
  (a) Affirmation of truth.--Signing a document delivered to the department for filing is an affirmation under the penalties provided in 18 Pa.C.S. § 4904...
• Section 143 - Liability For Inaccurate Information In Filing
  If a document that is delivered to the department for filing under this title and filed by the department contains inaccurate information at the...
• Section 144 - Signing And Filing Pursuant To Judicial Order
  (a) Petition.--If a person required by this title to sign a document or deliver a document to the department for filing under this title...
• Section 145 - Subsistence Certificate
  (a) General rule.--On request of a person, the department shall issue: (1) a subsistence certificate for a domestic filing entity or domestic limited liability...

Subchapter C.  Corporation Bureau and UCC Fees

• Section 151 - Short Title And Application Of Subchapter
  (a) Short title.--This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the Corporation Bureau and UCC Fee Law. (b) Application.--This subchapter contains an...
• Section 152 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 153 - Fee Schedule
  (a) General rule.--The nonrefundable fees of the bureau, including fees for the public acts and transactions of the Secretary of the Commonwealth administered through...
• Section 154 - Enforcement And Collection
  (a) General rule.-- (1) The department shall not be required to receive or file any document or paper unless the same shall be accompanied...
• Section 155 - Disposition Of Funds
  (a) Corporation Bureau Restricted Account.--The Corporation Bureau Restricted Account, established under former section 814 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known...
• Section 156 - References
  In statutes, regulations and orders, a reference to the Corporation Bureau shall be deemed a reference to the bureau. (July 9, 2013, P.L.476, No.67,...

Subchapter D.  Domestication of Certain Alien Associations

• Section 161 - Domestication Of Certain Alien Associations
  (a) General rule.--Except as restricted by subsection (e), any association as defined in subsection (f) may become a domestic association by filing in the...
• Section 162 - Contingent Domestication Of Certain Alien Associations (Repealed)
  § 162. Contingent domestication of certain alien associations (Repealed). 2014 Repeal. Section 162 was repealed October 22, 2014, P.L.2640, No.172, effective July 1, 2015.

Last modified: October 8, 2016