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or liabilities of private corporations or their officers, directors, shareholders or members may be revoked, amended or repealed.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.