7 Pa. Stat. § 6052
After the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, no corporation or person shall, whether or not operating under a declaration of trust or other agreement, engage or continue, either directly or indirectly, in the business, within this Commonwealth, of receiving single payments, regular instalment payments, or contributions to be held or used in any plan of accumulation or investment, or of issuing, negotiating, offering for sale, or selling any contract on the partial payment or instalment plan, or of assuming fixed obligations, or issuing, in connection therewith, a contract based upon payments being made upon instalments or single payment, under which all or part of the total amount received is to be repaid at some future time, either with or without profit, unless such corporation or person is licensed to transact such business within this Commonwealth by the commission in the manner hereinafter provided.
7 P.S. § 6052