2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 61 - Foreign Nonprofit Corporations
6122 - Excluded activities.

     § 6122.  Excluded activities.
        (a)  General rule.--Without excluding other activities which
     may not constitute doing business in this Commonwealth, a
     foreign nonprofit corporation shall not be considered to be
     doing business in this Commonwealth for the purposes of this
     subchapter by reason of carrying on in this Commonwealth any one
     or more of the following acts:
            (1)  Maintaining or defending any action or
        administrative or arbitration proceeding or effecting the
        settlement thereof or the settlement of claims or disputes.
            (2)  Holding meetings of its directors, other body or
        members or carrying on other activities concerning its
        internal affairs.
            (3)  Maintaining bank accounts.
            (4)  Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer,
        exchange and registration of its memberships or securities,
        or appointing and maintaining trustees or depositories with
        relation to its memberships or securities.
            (5)  Granting funds.
            (6)  Distributing information to its members.
            (7)  Creating as borrower or lender, acquiring or
        incurring obligations or mortgages or other security
        interests in real or personal property.
            (8)  Securing or collecting debts or enforcing any rights
        in property securing them.
            (9)  Transacting any business in interstate or foreign
        commerce.
            (10)  Conducting an isolated transaction completed within
        a period of 30 days and not in the course of a number of
        repeated transactions of like nature.
            (11)  Inspecting, appraising and acquiring real estate
        and mortgages and other liens thereon and personal property
        and security interests therein, and holding, leasing,
        conveying and transferring them, as fiduciary or otherwise.
        (b)  Exceptions.--The specification of activities in
     subsection (a) does not establish a standard for activities that
     may subject a foreign corporation to:
            (1)  Service of process under any statute or general
        rule.
            (2)  Taxation by the Commonwealth or any political
        subdivision thereof.
            (3)  The provisions of section 6145 (relating to
        applicability of certain safeguards to foreign corporations).
     (Dec. 21, 1988, P.L.1444, No.177, eff. Oct. 1, 1989; Dec. 19,
     1990, P.L.834, No.198, eff. imd.)

        1990 Amendment.  Act 198 reenacted and amended the entire
     section.