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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81995</law_id><section_number>8.01-313</section_number><catch_line>Specific addresses for mailing by statutory agent and resident agent</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-307</reference><reference>8.01-312</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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> For the <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span> appointed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Service on Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles as agent for nonresident motor vehicle operator" href="/8.01-308/">8.01-308</a> and <a class="law" title="Service on Secretary of Commonwealth as agent of nonresident operator or owner of aircraft" href="/8.01-309/">8.01-309</a>, the address for the mailing of the process as required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Effect of service on statutory agent; duties of such agent; time for responding to process" href="/8.01-312/">8.01-312</a> shall be the last known address of the nonresident or, where appropriate under subdivision B 1 or 2 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How service made on Commissioner, Secretary, and Clerk; appointment binding" href="/8.01-310/">8.01-310</a>, of the executor, administrator, or other personal representative of the nonresident. However, upon the filing of an <span class="dictionary">affidavit</span> by the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> that he does not know and is unable with due diligence to ascertain any post-office address of such nonresident, <span class="dictionary">service of process</span> on the <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span> shall be sufficient without the mailing otherwise required by this section. Provided further that: <a id="paragraph-293842" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-313/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> In the case of a nonresident <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> licensed by the Commonwealth to operate a motor vehicle, the last address reported by such <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> to the Department of Motor Vehicles as his address on an application for or renewal of driving <span class="dictionary">privileges</span> shall be deemed to be the address of the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> for the purpose of the mailing required by this section if no other address is known, and, in any case in which the <span class="dictionary">affidavit</span> provided for in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service by publication; when available" href="/8.01-316/">8.01-316</a> is filed, such a <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>, by so notifying the Department of such an address, and by failing to notify the Department of any change therein, shall be deemed to have appointed the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles his <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span> for <span class="dictionary">service of process</span> in an <span class="dictionary">action</span> arising out of operation of a motor vehicle by him in the Commonwealth, and to have accepted as valid service such mailing to such address; or <a id="paragraph-293843" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-313/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> In the case of a nonresident <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> not licensed by the Commonwealth to operate a motor vehicle, the address shown on the copy of the report of accident required by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Driver to report certain accidents in writing; certification of financial responsibility to Department; supplemental reports; reports by witnesses" href="/46.2-372/">46.2-372</a> filed by or for him with the Department, and on file at the office of the Department, or the address reported by such a <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> to any state or local police officer, or <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> investigating the accident sued on, if no other address is known, shall be conclusively presumed to be a valid address of such <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> for the purpose of the mailing provided for in this section, and his so reporting of an incorrect address, or his moving from the address so reported without making provision for forwarding to him of mail directed thereto, shall be deemed to be a <span class="dictionary">waiver</span> of notice and a consent to and acceptance of <span class="dictionary">service of process</span> served upon the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles as provided in this section. <a id="paragraph-293844" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-313/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> For the <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span> appointed pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Nonresident fiduciaries" href="/64.2-1426/">64.2-1426</a>, the address for the mailing of process as required by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Effect of service on statutory agent; duties of such agent; time for responding to process" href="/8.01-312/">8.01-312</a> shall be the address of the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span> as contained in the written consent most recently filed with the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> wherein the qualification of such <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> was had or, in the event of the death, removal, resignation, or absence from the Commonwealth of such <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span>, or in the event that such <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span> cannot with due diligence be found at such address, the address of the clerk of such <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>. <a id="paragraph-293845" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-313/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The address and procedures for the mailing of process by the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission as <span class="dictionary">statutory agent</span> are governed by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service of process on the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission as statutory agent" href="/12.1-19.1/">12.1-19.1</a>. <a id="paragraph-293846" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-313/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-67.2; 1954, c. 333; 1970, c. 680; 1972, c. 408; 1976, c. 26; 1977, c. 617; 1983, c. 467; 1984, c. 780; 1991, c. 672; 2020, cc. 1227, 1246; 2024, c. 454.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
