13.1-1018 - Service on limited liability company. - Virginia Statutes

§ 13.1-1018. Service on limited liability company.

A. A domestic or foreign limited liability company's registered agent is thelimited liability company's agent for service of process, notice, or demandrequired or permitted by law to be served on the limited liability company.The registered agent may by instrument in writing, acknowledged before anotary public, designate a natural person or persons in the office of theregistered agent upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served.Whenever any such person accepts service of process, a photographic copy ofsuch instrument shall be attached to the return.

B. Whenever a domestic or foreign limited liability company fails to appointor maintain a registered agent in this Commonwealth, or whenever itsregistered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registeredoffice, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the limitedliability company upon whom service may be made in accordance with §12.1-19.1.

C. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily therequired means, of serving a domestic or foreign limited liability company.

(1991, c. 168; 2001, cc. 517, 541.)