Bill Text: VA SB232 | 2014 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Domestic corporations; service of process.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-13 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (7-Y 8-N) [SB232 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-SB232-Comm_Sub.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 232 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice on January 13, 2014) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Petersen) A BILL to amend and reenact §8.01-299 of the Code of Virginia, relating to substituted service of process on registered agent of corporation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §8.01-299 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§8.01-299. How process served on domestic corporations generally.

Except as prescribed in §8.01-300 as to municipal and quasi-governmental corporations, and subject to §8.01-286.1, process may be served on a corporation created by the laws of the Commonwealth as follows:

1. By personal service on any officer, director, or registered agent of such corporation; or

2. By substituted service on stock corporations in accordance with §13.1-637 and on nonstock corporations in accordance with §13.1-836; or

3. By substituted service on the registered agent of the corporation, if personal service cannot be effected under subdivision 1, by posting a copy of the process on the front door or main entrance of the corporation's register office in the manner of subdivision 2 b of §8.01-296.