2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 41 - Foreign Business Corporations
4122 - Excluded activities.

     § 4122.  Excluded activities.
        (a)  General rule.--Without excluding other activities that
     may not constitute doing business in this Commonwealth, a
     foreign business 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 or shareholders 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 securities or appointing and
        maintaining trustees or depositaries with relation to its
        securities.
            (5)  Effecting sales through independent contractors.
            (6)  Soliciting or procuring orders, whether by mail or
        through employees or agents or otherwise, and maintaining
        offices therefor, where the orders require acceptance without
        this Commonwealth before becoming binding contracts.
            (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 business corporation to:
            (1)  Service of process under any statute or general
        rule.
            (2)  Taxation by the Commonwealth or any political
        subdivision thereof.

        Cross References.  Section 4122 is referred to in section
     8582 of this title.