                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SERVICE OF PROCESS ON FOREIGN CORPORATION (§ 13.1-766)

A. The registered agent of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business
in the Commonwealth shall be an agent of the foreign corporation upon whom any
process, notice, order, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon
the corporation may be served. The registered agent may by instrument in
writing, acknowledged before a notary public, designate a natural person or
persons in the office of the registered agent upon whom any such process,
notice, order, or demand may be served. Whenever any such person accepts service
of process, a photographic copy of such instrument shall be attached to the
return.

B. Whenever a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in the
Commonwealth fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in the
Commonwealth, or whenever its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence
be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an
agent of the foreign corporation upon whom service may be made in accordance
with &#xA7; 12.1-19.1.

C. Nothing in this section shall limit or affect the right to serve any process,
notice, order, or demand, required or permitted by law to be served upon a
foreign corporation in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 13-214 to 13-217, 13.1-111; 1956, c. 428; 1975, c. 500;
1985, c. 522; 1986, cc. 571, 622; 1991, c. 672; 2001, cc. 517, 541; 2019, c.
734.