                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SERVICE ON BUSINESS TRUST (§ 13.1-1223)

A. A domestic or foreign business trust&#8217;s registered agent is the business
trust&#8217;s agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or
permitted by law to be served on the business trust. The registered agent may,
by instrument in writing and acknowledged before a notary public, designate a
person or persons in the office of the registered agent upon whom any such
process, notice 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 domestic or foreign business trust fails to appoint or maintain a
registered agent in this 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 business trust upon whom service may be
made in accordance with &#xA7; 12.1-19.1.

C. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required
means, of serving a domestic or foreign business trust.

HISTORY: 2002, c. 621.