15 Pa. Stat. § 21401

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 21401 - Repeals
(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this subsection, the following acts and parts of acts are repealed:

Act of May 5, 1899 (P.L. 253, No. 148), entitled "An act to allow Medical Colleges of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to confer diplomas in public health."

Subparagraphs (ii) through (ix) of paragraph (1) of section 618-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 177, No. 175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929. Notwithstanding1 Pa.C.S. § 1952 (relating to effect of separate amendments on code provisions enacted by same General Assembly), this act shall control over any other act of the present General Assembly which relates to the subject matter of 15 Pa.C.S. Ch. 1 Subch. C (relating to Corporation Bureau and UCC fees).

Section 730 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 343, No. 176), known as The Fiscal Code, insofar as it applies to insurance corporations.

Act of May 5, 1933 (P.L. 289, No. 105), known as the Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1933.

Act of May 7, 1937 (P.L. 585, No. 150), entitled, as amended, "An act prohibiting the use of the designation of 'college' by any institution not conforming to the standards of a college prescribed by the State Board of Education; and providing for injunctions, and penalties."

Act of June 21, 1937 (P.L. 1969, No. 389), known as the Electric Cooperative Corporation Act.

Section 513 of the act of December 14, 1967 (P.L. 746, No. 345), known as the Savings Association Code of 1967.

Act of June 12, 1968 (P.L. 173, No. 94), known as the Cooperative Agricultural Association Act.

Last sentence of section 403(a)(3) of the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L. 6, No. 2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971.

Act of July 12, 1972 (P.L. 769, No. 182), entitled "An act relating to certain documents, prescribing the fees for the Department of State and certain public officers, permitting the filing of certain documents appropriating the exclusive right to a corporate name, repealing the excise tax on the capital stock of domestic corporations and repealing inconsistent acts."

Sections 3, 4 and 8 of the act of November 15, 1972 (P.L. 1063, No. 271), entitled "An act amending the act of November 25, 1970 (P.L. 707, No. 230), entitled 'An act codifying and compiling a part of the law of the Commonwealth,' adding provisions relating to burial grounds, corporations, including corporations not-for-profit, educational institutions, private police, certain charitable or eleemosynary institutions, certain nonprofit insurers, service of process on certain nonresident persons, names, prescribing penalties and making repeals."

Act of July 30, 1975 (P.L. 113, No. 57) , known as the Retail Electric Supplier Unincorporated Area Certified Territory Act.

As much as reads "and acknowledge before an officer competent to take acknowledgment of deeds," of the second sentence of section 201 of the act of July 29, 1977 (P.L. 105, No. 38) , known as the Fraternal Benefit Society Code. If the Insurance Commissioner shall approve under the act the incorporation, merger, consolidation, conversion or division of any fraternal benefit society or any other amendment of articles or other fundamental change in the charter of any society under the act, he shall deliver the papers relating thereto to the Department of State. The provisions of sections 204 and 205 of the act shall not apply to any fraternal benefit society incorporated under the provisions of the Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1972 prior to January 29, 1978. The provisions of the act shall control over Title 15 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes (relating to corporations and unincorporated associations) as provided in15 Pa.C.S. § 103 (relating to subordination of title to regulatory laws).

Sections 105, 301 and 304(a)(6) and (b) of the act of December 21, 1988 (P.L. 1444, No. 177), known as the General Association Act of 1988.

(b) The following acts and parts of acts applicable to insurance companies and corporations are repealed:

Act of November 27, 1865 (1866 P.L. 1228, No. 1119), entitled "An act relating to the organization and meetings of certain corporations, incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth."

Act of April 15, 1869 (P.L. 29, No. 30), entitled "An act requiring a majority of the directors or managers of corporations to constitute a quorum."

Act of May 15, 1874 (P.L. 186, No. 118), entitled "An act to authorize the issuing of letters patent to certain corporations."

Act of June 17, 1887 (P.L. 411, No. 274), entitled "A further supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,' approved April twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, providing for the further regulation of such corporations."

Act of May 20, 1891 (P.L. 101, No. 77), entitled "An act authorizing salaried officers of private or business corporations to concurrently serve as directors therein."

Act of April 19, 1901 (P.L. 80, No. 51), entitled "An act to regulate the number of directors in corporations chartered under the laws of this Commonwealth."

Act of July 2, 1901 (P.L. 603, No. 298), entitled "An act authorizing corporations, organized for profit, to purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, the shares of capital stock of, or any bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness created by, any other corporation."

Act of March 5, 1903 (P.L. 14, No. 17), entitled "An act concerning proxies, authorizing representation and voting of shares of capital stock of corporations at meetings and elections thereof."

Act of March 16, 1905 (P.L. 42, No. 26), entitled "An act providing for the voting of shares of stock in corporations in this Commonwealth, held by executors, administrators, guardians, and trustees, and the manner of voting the same."

Act of May 23, 1913 (P.L. 336, No. 222), entitled "An act authorizing corporations of this Commonwealth to declare, at any time or times, dividends out of net profits; and prescribing the time within which the same shall be paid."

Act of March 30, 1921 (P.L. 54, No. 28), entitled "An act permitting corporations to change the date of their annual meeting as fixed by its charter."

Sections 104, 106, 203, 204, 205 (except the second sentence), 207, 208, 209, 210 (insofar as it prohibits the use of shares without par value), 211, 213, 214, 301.2, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, first and second paragraphs of section 308, sections 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, first paragraph and as much of the first sentence of the second paragraph as reads as follows "provided for in the by-laws" of section 314, sections 315, 316, 322 (except subsections (d) and (e)), 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 337.5, 338, 340, 341, 343, 344, 352, 355, 532, 607 (insofar as it prohibits the use of shares without par value), 608, 751 and 752 of the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L. 682, No. 284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921. The provisions of The Insurance Company Law of 1921 that have not been repealed by this act shall control over the provisions of Title 15.

Act of March 15, 1923 (P.L. 10, No. 8), entitled "An act relating to the recording of certificates of incorporation of domestic corporations; providing for the recording of certified copies thereof in certain cases; validating the recording of such certified copies heretofore recorded; and making the record of such certified copies competent evidence for all purposes."

Act of July 12, 1923 (P.L. 1083, No. 443), entitled "An act authorizing corporations to issue stock at a price in excess of the par value thereof."

Act of April 7, 1925 (P.L. 183, No. 131), entitled "An act providing that certificates of association and articles of incorporation or of any improvements, amendments, or alterations thereto may be acknowledged and sworn or affirmed to before a notary public or justice of the peace; validating such acknowledgments made prior to the approval of this act."

Act of May 12, 1925 (P.L. 615, No. 329), entitled "An act pertaining to corporations organized or doing business within the Commonwealth; limiting the operation of their by-laws; and providing for the execution of contracts, notes, mortgages, et cetera, by such corporations."

Act of May 13, 1925 (P.L. 679, No. 368), entitled, as amended, "An act authorizing corporations to issue stock to their employes and to employes of their subsidiaries, and authorizing such an issue without first offering such shares to the stockholders, subject to certain limitations."

Act of April 27, 1927 (P.L. 404, No. 260), entitled "An act prohibiting corporations from pleading usury as a defense."

Act of April 26, 1929 (P.L. 794, No. 341), entitled "An act relating to mutual fire insurance companies incorporated under any general or special law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; empowering any such company to regulate the number of, and the manner of nominating directors, managers, or trustees thereof; and providing a method for fixing the time of annual meetings of members of any such company."

Act of April 30, 1929 (P.L. 903, No. 401), entitled "An act relating to corporations; providing methods of determining what stockholders shall be entitled to vote at meetings, or to receive dividends, or allotments of rights, or to exercise rights; and the effect thereon of transfers of stock within sixty days of any election or meeting."

Act of May 16, 1945 (P.L. 594, No. 249), entitled, as amended, "An act authorizing and empowering any corporation for profit, and any mutual insurance company, mutual savings bank, or other corporation on a mutual plan heretofore or hereafter organized under any general or special law of this Commonwealth, by action of its board of directors to make contributions for public and charitable purposes; and ratifying certain contributions."

Section 5 of the act of June 28, 1951 (P.L. 941, No. 184), entitled "An act authorizing certain existing beneficial or protective societies, heretofore incorporated, to reincorporate, or to merge and reincorporate, as limited life insurance companies, for the purpose of making insurance upon the health of individuals and against personal injury and disablement and death, including endowment insurance; regulating such corporations, and limiting the amounts for which such corporations may issue policies."

Section 1 of the act of August 19, 1953 (P.L. 1075, No. 280), entitled "An act authorizing corporations to grant stock options, pensions and allowances, under certain circumstances; and validating stock options, pensions and allowances heretofore granted."

Act of August 14, 1963 (P.L. 910, No. 434), entitled "An act authorizing certain domestic stock insurance companies to issue stock having a par value of not less than one dollar per share, and validating certain stock which any such corporation may heretofore have been authorized to issue or issued."

(c) All acts and parts of acts relating to limited life insurance companies are repealed insofar as inconsistent with this act.
(d) The act of September 20, 1961 (P.L. 1548, No. 658), known as the Credit Union Act, is repealed.
(e) All other parts of those acts which are specified in this section and all other acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they are in any manner inconsistent with this act.

15 P.S. § 21401

1990, Dec. 19, P.L. 834, No. 198, § 401, imd. effective.