Bill Text: VA SB241 | 2016 | Regular Session | Prefiled

Virginia Senate Bill 241 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Service of process, substituted; served on registered agent of a corporation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-07 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) [SB241 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2016-SB241-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 241 Offered January 13, 2016 Prefiled January 6, 2016 A BILL to amend and reenact §8.01-299 of the Code of Virginia, relating to substituted service of process on registered agent of domestic corporation. ---------- Patron-- Petersen ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

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 by posting a copy of the process on the front door or main entrance of the corporation's registered office in the manner of subdivision 2 b of §8.01-296.