                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

HOW PROCESS SERVED ON FOREIGN STOCK OR NONSTOCK CORPORATIONS AND FOREIGN LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANIES GENERALLY (§ 8.01-301)

Subject to § 8.01-286.1, service of process on a foreign stock or nonstock
corporation or a foreign limited liability company may be effected in the
following manner:

1. By personal service on any officer or director or the registered agent of a
foreign stock or nonstock corporation that is authorized to do business in the
Commonwealth, by personal service on any agent of any such foreign corporation
transacting business in the Commonwealth without such authorization, wherever
any such officer, director, or agents be found within the Commonwealth, and by
personal service on the registered agent of a foreign limited liability company
that is registered to do business in the Commonwealth;

2. By substituted service on (i) a foreign stock or nonstock corporation in
accordance with &#xA7;&#xA7; 13.1-766 and 13.1-928, respectively, and on a
foreign limited liability company in accordance with &#xA7; 13.1-1018, if any
such corporation or limited liability company is authorized or registered to
transact business or affairs within the Commonwealth, and (ii) a foreign stock
or nonstock corporation in accordance with subsection F of &#xA7; 13.1-758 and
subsection E of &#xA7; 13.1-920, respectively, and on a foreign limited
liability company in accordance with subsection E of &#xA7; 13.1-1057, if any
such corporation or limited liability company is not authorized or registered to
transact business within the Commonwealth;

3. By substituted service on a foreign stock or nonstock corporation or foreign
limited liability company in accordance with &#xA7; 8.01-329, or by service in
accordance with &#xA7; 8.01-320, where jurisdiction is authorized under &#xA7;
8.01-328.1, regardless of whether any such foreign corporation or foreign
limited liability company is authorized or registered to transact business
within the Commonwealth; or

4. By order of publication in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA7; 8.01-316 and 8.01-317
where jurisdiction in rem or quasi in rem is authorized, regardless of whether
the foreign stock or nonstock corporation or foreign limited liability company
so served is authorized or registered to transact business within the
Commonwealth.
			This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required
means, of serving a foreign stock or nonstock corporation or foreign limited
liability company.
			For the purposes of responding to a subpoena served in the manner prescribed
by this section, a foreign corporation transacting business in the Commonwealth
that has a registered agent in the Commonwealth shall be deemed to have
consented to service.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-60; 1977, c. 617; 1991, c. 672; 2005, c. 866; 2013, c.
113; 2024, c. 454; 2025, c. 345.