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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76632</law_id><section_number>8.01-299</section_number><catch_line>How process served on domestic stock corporations, nonstock corporations, and limited liability companies generally</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-238</reference><reference>19.2-386.3</reference><reference>8.01-126</reference><reference>8.01-286.1</reference><reference>8.01-300</reference><reference>8.01-424.1</reference><reference>8.01-513</reference><reference>8.01-550</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Process</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Who to Be Served</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except as prescribed in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How process served on municipal and county governments and on quasi-governmental entities" href="/8.01-300/">8.01-300</a> as to municipal and quasi-governmental corporations, and subject to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Service of process; waiver, duty to save costs, request to waive, how served" href="/8.01-286.1/">8.01-286.1</a>, process may be served on a domestic stock corporation, nonstock corporation, or limited liability company created by the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth as follows:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> By personal service on any officer, director, or registered agent of any such corporation or on the registered agent of such limited liability company; <a id="paragraph-275104" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-299/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> By substituted service on stock corporations in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service on corporation" href="/13.1-637/">13.1-637</a>, on nonstock corporations in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service on corporation" href="/13.1-836/">13.1-836</a>, and on limited liability companies in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service on limited liability company" href="/13.1-1018/">13.1-1018</a>; or <a id="paragraph-275105" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-299/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> If the address of the registered office of the corporation or limited liability company is a single-family residential dwelling, by substituted service on the registered agent of the corporation or limited liability company in the manner provided by subdivision 2 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Manner of serving process upon natural persons" href="/8.01-296/">8.01-296</a>.
			This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a domestic stock or nonstock corporation or limited liability company. <a id="paragraph-275106" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-299/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-59; 1954, c. 23; 1956, c. 432; 1958, c. 13; 1976, c. 395; 1977, c. 617; 1991, c. 672; 2005, c. 866; 2016, c. 270; 2018, c. 475; 2024, c. 454.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
