Pennsylvania · statute · 15 Pa.C.S. · 949 active provisions
(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 in the scope provisions of subsequent provisions of this title, this title shall apply to every association heretofore or hereafter incorporated or otherwise organized.…
(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, the following words and phrases when used in this title shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them…
(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 the business of the association or by any rule or regulation validly promulgated thereunder by any department, board or commission of this Commonwealth. Except…
Except to the extent otherwise provided in this title in cases where a statutory remedy is provided by this title, the court shall have the powers of a court of equity or chancery insofar as those powers relate to the supervision and control of corporations and other associations.
(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 law, such fees as are specified in or pursuant to Subchapter C (relating to Corporation Bureau and UCC fees). (b) Other services.--Any other department, board, com…
The filing of articles or of any other papers or documents pursuant to the provisions of this title is required for the purpose of affording all persons the opportunity of acquiring knowledge of the contents thereof, but, except as otherwise provided by statute, no person shall be charged with constructive notice of th…
(a) General rule.--Information maintained or administered by or on behalf of a corporation or other association in the regular course of its business or activities, including shareholder or membership records, books of account and minute books, may be kept in record form. (b) Meaning of "written".--References in this t…
(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 care of an agent who maintains the registered office for the corporation or other association and the agent changes its name or the location of its office in a county from one address to anot…
(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 Department of State, the person filing the document may substitute in lieu thereof the term "c/o" followed by: (1) The name of an association or a division thereof that h…
Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this title, the principles of law and equity, including, but not limited to, the law relating to principal and agent, estoppel, waiver, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy or other validating or invalidating cause, shall supplement its provisi…
(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 (Public Law 106-229, 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.). (b) Exception.--This title does not do any of the following: (1) Modify, limit or supersede section 101(c) of…
(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 received when it: (1) enters an information processing system that the recipient has designated or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic records…
(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) electronic transmission. (b) Delivery to department.--Delivery to the department of a document in record form is effective only on receipt by the dep…
A domestic association other than a business corporation 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 exte…
As used in this subchapter, the term "this title" includes Titles 17 (relating to credit unions) and 54 (relating to names) and any other provision of law that: (1) makes reference to the powers and procedures of this subchapter; or (2) to the extent not inconsistent with this subchapter: (i) requires a filing in the b…
(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 of deeds under former provisions of law as an office of public record wherein articles and other papers relating to association affairs may be filed to establish the permanent and defi…
(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 specified in section 132 (relating to functions of Department of State), in 13 Pa.C.S. (relating to commercial code) and in 17 Pa.C.S. (relating to credi…
(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 from a person effecting a filing under this title information that the department has found to be necessary or desirable in connection with the processing of a f…
(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 face to relate to matters authorized or required to be filed under this title or contains a caption indicating that relationship and, if no applicable statement has b…
(a) Filing of documents.--Except as provided in subsection (f), if a document conforms to section 135 (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents) the Department of State shall forthwith file the document, certify that the document has been filed by endorsing upon the document the fact and date of filing, ma…
(a) General rule.--Whenever the Department of State rejects a document delivered for filing under this title, the original document or a copy thereof and any papers relating thereto may be delivered to the prothonotary or clerk of the court vested by or pursuant to Title 42 (relating to judiciary and judicial procedure…
(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 been so filed and is an inaccurate record of the action therein referred to or was defectively or erroneously executed, the document may be corrected by delivering to th…
(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…
(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 become a Commonwealth record in the manner provided in this section. The Department of State, with the concurrence of the county records committee existing under the a…
(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 department for filing a statement of abandonment. (b) Requirements for statement of abandonment.--A statement of abandonment must: (1) be signed by a person with the authority…