Department of State
Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations
P.O. Box 8722
Harrisburg, PA 17105-8722
(717) 787- 1057
Web site:
Instructions for Completion of Form:
A. Typewritten is preferred. If not, the form shall be completed in black or blue-black ink in order topermit
reproduction. The filing fee for this form is $125 made payable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Checks must
contain a commercially pre-printed name and address.
B. Under 15 Pa.C.S. § 135(c) (relating to addresses) an actual street or rural route box number must be used as an address
, a nd the Department of State is required to refuse to receive or file any document that sets forth only a post office box
address.
C. The following, in addition to the filing fee, shall accompany this
form:
(1) One copy of a completed form DSCB:15-134A (Docketing Statement).
(2) Any necessary copies of form DSCB:17.2.3 (Consent to Appropriation of Name).
(3) Any necessary governmental approvals.
D. For general instructions relating to the incorporation of business corporations see 19 Pa. Code Ch. 23 (relating to busine ss
corporations generally). These instructions relate to such matters as corporate name, stated purposes, term of
existence,nonstock status, authorized share structure and related authority of the board of directors, par values, inclusion of
names of first directors in the Articles of Incorporation, optional provisions on cumulative voting for election of directors, etc.
E. For required provisions in the Articles of a nonstock corporation, see 15 Pa.C.S. §§ 2102-2103 (relating to formation of
nonstick corporations and contents of articles).
F. For required provisions in the Articles of a statutory close corporation, see 15 Pa.C.S. § 2304 (relating to additional
contents of articles of statutory close corporations).
G. For required provisions in the Articles of a management corporation, see 15 Pa.C.S. § 2703 (relating to
additional contents of articles of management corporations).
H. For restrictions on the stated purposes of professional corporations, see 15 Pa.C.S. § 2903 (relating to
formation of professional corporations).
I. For required provisions on the stated purposes of benefit corporations, see 15 Pa.C.S. § 3311 (relating to
corporate purposes).
J. Articles for a nonprofit cooperative corporation should be filed on Form DSCB:15-5306/7102B (Articles of
Incorporation Nonprofit).
K. One or more corporations or natural persons of full age may incorporate a business corporation.
L. 15 Pa.C.S. § 1307 (relating to advertisement) requires that the incorporators shall advertise their intention to file or the
corporation shall advertise the filing of articles of incorporation. Proofs of publication of such advertising should not be
submitted to, and will not be received by or filed in, the Department, but should be filed with the minutes of the
corporatio n.