                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SERVICE OF PROCESS ON NONRESIDENT FRANCHISOR (§ 13.1-566)

Every nonresident franchisor who has a franchise registered hereunder and which
is not a corporation complying with § 13.1-759 or § 13.1-767 shall appoint in
writing the clerk of the Commission as his agent upon whom may be served any
process, notice, order or demand. Every nonresident franchisor who sells or
offers to sell a franchise registered hereunder and every nonresident franchisor
whose franchise is sold or offered to be sold in this Commonwealth shall be
deemed to have appointed the clerk of the Commission as his agent upon whom may
be served, in any matter arising under this chapter any process, notice, order
or demand. Service may be made on the clerk in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 561; 1978, c. 670; 1990, c. 263; 1991, c. 672; 2009, c. 148.