Pennsylvania § 9115 Ownership and transfer of property

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 9115 — Ownership and transfer of property

Pennsylvania § 9115

Title 15CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS

PartPART IV

Ch. 91UNINCORPORATED NONPROFIT ASSOCIATIONS

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15 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 9115 (2026).

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(a)General rule.--A nonprofit association may acquire, hold or transfer, in its name, an interest in property.

(b)Testamentary and fiduciary dispositions.--A nonprofit association may be a beneficiary of a trust or contract, a legatee or a devisee.

(c)Authority to take and hold trust property.--Every nonprofit association organized for a charitable purpose or purposes may take, receive and hold real and personal property as may be given, devised to or otherwise vested in the nonprofit association, in trust, for the purpose or purposes set forth in its governing principles. The managers of the nonprofit association shall, as trustees of the property, be held to the same degree of responsibility and accountability as other trustees, unless a lesser degree or a particular degree of respo

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(a) General rule.--A nonprofit association may acquire, hold or transfer, in its name, an interest in property.

(b) Testamentary and fiduciary dispositions.--A nonprofit association may be a beneficiary of a trust or contract, a legatee or a devisee.

(c) Authority to take and hold trust property.--Every nonprofit association organized for a charitable purpose or purposes may take, receive and hold real and personal property as may be given, devised to or otherwise vested in the nonprofit association, in trust, for the purpose or purposes set forth in its governing principles. The managers of the nonprofit association shall, as trustees of the property, be held to the same degree of responsibility and accountability as other trustees, unless a lesser degree or a particular degree of responsibility and accountability is prescribed in the trust instrument, or unless the managers remain under the control of the members of the nonprofit association or third persons who retain the right to direct, and do direct, the actions of the managers as to the use of the trust property from time to time.

(d) Nondiversion of certain property.--Property of a nonprofit association committed to charitable purposes shall not, by any proceeding under Chapter 3 (relating to entity transactions) or otherwise, be diverted from the objects to which it was donated, granted or devised, unless and until the nonprofit association obtains from the court an order under 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 77 (relating to trusts) specifying the disposition of the property.