Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 4 - Foreign Associations
Section 417 - Required withdrawal on certain transactions

(a) Application of section.--This section shall apply to a registered foreign association that has been:
(1) a nonsurviving party to a merger in which the survivor is a foreign association;
(2) a dividing association which did not survive the division;
(3) dissolved and completed winding up;
(4) converted to a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership; or
(5) the domesticating entity in a domestication in which the domesticated entity is a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership.
(b) Statement of withdrawal.--A registered foreign association described in subsection (a) shall deliver a statement of withdrawal to the department for filing. The statement shall state as follows:
(1) In the case of a foreign association that has completed winding up, was not the survivor of a merger in which the survivor was a foreign association or was a dividing association that did not survive the division, all of the following:
(i) The name under which the association is registered to do business in this Commonwealth and its jurisdiction of formation.
(ii) That the association withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth.
(iii) The nature of the transaction that requires it to make a filing under this section.
(2) In the case of a foreign association that has converted to a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership, all of the following:
(i) The name under which the association is registered to do business in this Commonwealth and its jurisdiction of formation.
(ii) The type of nonfiling association to which the association has converted and its jurisdiction of formation.
(iii) That the association withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth.
(3) In the case of a foreign association that has domesticated as a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership in a jurisdiction other than this Commonwealth, all of the following:
(i) The name under which the association is registered to do business in this Commonwealth and its jurisdiction of formation.
(ii) The jurisdiction of formation of the domesticated association.
(iii) That the association withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth.
(c) Tax clearance.--The statement of withdrawal as delivered to the department for filing shall be accompanied by the certificates required by section 139 (relating to tax clearance of certain fundamental transactions), except that those certificates shall not be required if the statement is being delivered for filing by a registered foreign association that was not the survivor of a merger in which the survivor is another registered foreign association.
(d) Signature.--The statement of withdrawal shall be signed by:
(1) the surviving association in the merger;
(2) a resulting association in the division;
(3) the dissolved association; or
(4) the converted or domesticated association.
(e) Cross references.--See sections 134 (relating to docketing statement) and 135 (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents).
(Nov. 3, 2022, P.L.1791, No.122, eff. 60 days)

2022 Amendment. Act 122 amended subsecs. (a)(1), (b) intro. par. and (1), relettered former subsec. (c) to (e) and added present subsec. (c) and added subsec. (d).
Cross References. Section 417 is referred to in sections 356, 376 of this title.