2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 41 - Foreign Business Corporations
4121 - Admission of foreign corporations.

                               SUBCHAPTER B
                              QUALIFICATION

     Sec.
     4121.  Admission of foreign corporations.
     4122.  Excluded activities.
     4123.  Requirements for foreign corporation names.
     4124.  Application for a certificate of authority.
     4125.  Issuance of certificate of authority.
     4126.  Amended certificate of authority.
     4127.  Merger, consolidation or division of qualified foreign
            corporations.
     4128.  Revocation of certificate of authority.
     4129.  Application for termination of authority.
     4130.  Change of address after withdrawal.
     4131.  Registration of name.

        Cross References.  Subchapter B is referred to in sections
     4141, 4143, 9507 of this title.
     § 4121.  Admission of foreign corporations.
        (a)  General rule.--A foreign business corporation, before
     doing business in this Commonwealth, shall procure a certificate
     of authority to do so from the Department of State, in the
     manner provided in this subchapter. A foreign business
     corporation shall not be denied a certificate of authority by
     reason of the fact that the laws of the jurisdiction governing
     its incorporation and internal affairs differ from the laws of
     this Commonwealth.
        (b)  Qualification under former statutes.--If a foreign
     corporation for profit was on March 19, 1966, admitted to do
     business in this Commonwealth by the filing of a power of
     attorney and statement under the act of June 8, 1911 (P.L.710,
     No.283), the power of attorney and statement shall be deemed an
     approved application for a certificate of authority issued under
     this subchapter and the corporation shall be deemed a holder of
     the certificate. The corporation shall include in its initial
     application, if any, for an amended certificate of authority
     under this subchapter the information required by this
     subchapter to be set forth in an application for a certificate
     of authority. A certificate of authority issued under the former
     provisions of the Business Corporation Law of 1933 shall be
     deemed to be issued under this subchapter, and the certificate
     of authority shall be deemed not to contain any reference to the
     kind of business that the corporation proposes to do in this
     Commonwealth.
        (c)  Foreign insurance corporations.--A foreign insurance
     corporation shall not be required to procure a certificate of
     authority under this subchapter.
     (Dec. 19, 1990, P.L.834, No.198, eff. imd.)

        1990 Amendment.  Act 198 amended subsec. (b) and added
     subsec. (c).