PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS AND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS Return document by mail to: Statement of Withdrawal of Foreign Registration Name DSCB:15-415/417 (7/1/2015) Address City State Zip Code *4157* 4157 Return document by email to: _________________________________ Read all instructions prior to completing. This form may be submitted online at https://www.corporations.pa.gov/. Fee: $70 Check One: Voluntary Withdrawal of Foreign Registration Required Withdrawal of Foreign Registration (complete fields 1-5) (complete fields 1-6) In compliance with the requirements of the applicable provisions of 15 Pa.C.S. § 415 or § 417 (relating to withdrawal of foreign registration), the undersigned registered foreign association hereby states that: 1. The name of the association under which it is registered to do business in this Commonwealth is: 2. The jurisdiction of formation of the association is: _______________________________________________________ 3. The (a) address of the association’s registered office in this Commonwealth or (b) name of its Commercial Registered Office Provider and the county of venue is: Complete part (a) OR (b) – not both: (a) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Number and street City State Zip County OR (b) c/o: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name of Commercial Registered Office Provider County 4. The association is not doing business in this Commonwealth and withdraws its registration to do business in this Commonwealth. 5. This Statement of Withdrawal of Foreign Registration shall take effect upon filing in the Department of State. |
DSCB:15-415/417– 2 For REQUIRED WITHDRAWAL ONLY 6.Check and,if appropriate complete, one of the following. The registered foreign association is: A nonsurviving party to a merger in which the survivor is a nonregistered foreign association. A dividing association which did not survive the division. Dissolved and completed winding up. Converted to a domestic or foreign nonfiling association other than a limited liability partnership. The type of nonfiling association to which the association has converted is:_________________________________ and the jurisdiction of formation of the converted association is: _________________________________________. The domesticating entity in a domestication in which the domesticated entity is a domestic or foreign nonfiling association (other than a limited liability partnership). The jurisdiction of formation of the domesticated association is: ________________________________________. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned foreign association has caused this Statement of Withdrawal of Foreign Registration to be signed by a duly authorized representative of the association this __________ day of _________________________20_____ . ______________________________________ Name of Foreign Association ___________________________________________________ S ig n a tu r e ___________________________________________________ Title |
DSCB:15-415/417–Instructions Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations P.O. Box 8722 Harrisburg, PA 17105-8722 (717) 787-1057 web site: www.dos.pa.gov/corps General Information Typewritten is preferred. If handwritten, the form must be Tax clearance certificates: legible and completed in black or blue-black ink in order to A registered foreign association may not file a Statement of permit reproduction. Withdrawal of Foreign Registration unless the document is accompanied by tax clearance certificates from the The nonrefundable filing fee for this form is $70. Checks Department of Revenue and the Department of Labor and should be made payable to the Department of State. Checks Industry evidencing the payment by the association of all taxes must contain a commercially pre-printed name and address. and charges due the Commonwealth required by law. To obtain these clearance certificates, Form REV-181 This form and all accompanying documents shall be mailed to (Application for Tax Clearance Certificate) must be completed the address stated above. and submitted to both the Department of Revenue and the Department of Labor and Industry. The application and Who should file this form? instructions may be downloaded from the Department of A registered foreign association may withdraw from Revenue website at www.revenue.pa.gov or obtained by transacting business or conducting affairs in the calling 717-783-6052. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by delivering to the Department of State for filing a Statement of Withdrawal of Advertising: Registration. As required by 15 Pa.C.S. § 4129 or by 15 Pa.C.S. § 6129 (relating to Advertisement of termination of registration to do A Statement of Withdrawal will serve to remove the business), a corporation must advertise its intention to association from the rolls of active associations in the records withdraw from doing business in Pennsylvania before filing a of the Department. Statement of Withdrawal under section 415 (relating to voluntary withdrawal of registration). Proofs of publication of Withdrawal is either voluntary or may be required in certain such advertising should not be submitted to, and will not be circumstances. Those required circumstances are when the received by or filed in, the Department, but should be filed registered foreign association is: with the minutes of the corporation. (1) a nonsurviving party to a merger in which the survivor is a nonregistered foreign association; Form Instructions (2) a dividing association which did not survive the Enter the name and mailing address to which any division; correspondence regarding this filing should be sent. This field (3) dissolved and completed winding up; must be completed for the Bureau to return the filing. If the (4) converted to a domestic or foreign nonfiling association filing is to be returned by email, an email address must be other than a limited liability partnership; or provided. An email will be sent to address provided, (5) the domesticating entity in a domestication in which the containing a link and instructions on how a copy of the filed domesticated entity is a domestic or foreign nonfiling document or correspondence may be downloaded. Any email association other than a limited liability partnership. or mailing addresses provided on this form will become part of the filed document and therefore public record. Applicable Law For foreign associations, in general, 15 Pa.C.S. §§ 102; 401- 1. Give the exact name of the association as registered to do 419; for withdrawal of registration, 15 Pa.C.S. §§ 415-417. business in Pennsylvania and as on file with the Department of Statutes are available on the Pennsylvania General Assembly State.If a foreign association has adopted an alternate name in website, www.legis.state.pa.us, by following the link for order to register to do business in Pennsylvania, the registered Statutes. foreign association must use the alternate name in response to a requirement that a document delivered to the Department for Attachments filing state the name of the association. This field is required. The following, in addition to the filing fee, shall accompany this form: 2. “Jurisdiction of formation” means the jurisdiction, other (1) Tax clearance certificates from the Department of than Pennsylvania, whose law includes the governing statute Revenue and the Department of Labor and Industry of the withdrawing association. This field is required. evidencing payment of all taxes and charges payable to the Commonwealth as described in the following 3. Give one of the following: the current registered office paragraph. address in the Commonwealth in (a) or the name of a (2) Any necessary governmental approvals. |
DSCB:15-415/417–Instructions Commercial Registered Office Provider (b) and the county of venue, as on file with the Department of State. Post office boxes are not acceptable for any address. Under 15 Pa.C.S. § 135(c) (relating to addresses), an actual street or rural route box number must be used as an address, and the Department of State is required to refuse to receive or file any document that sets forth only a post office box address. This field is required. 4. Mandatory statement. This field is required. 5. Mandatory statement. No delayed effective date may be specified per 15 Pa.C.S. § 415(b). This field is required. 6.This field is required only if the withdrawal is required by law due to one of the following: The registered foreign association is: (1) a nonsurviving party to a merger in which the survivor is a nonregistered 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. Check only one of the five boxes and complete all blanks in the associated text. Signature and Verification An authorized representative of the withdrawing, surviving or converted foreign association must sign the Statement of Withdrawal. Signing a document delivered to the Department for filing is an affirmation under the penalties provided in 18 Pa.C.S. § 4904 (relating to unsworn falsification to authorities) that the facts stated in the document are true in all material respects. This field is required. |