Tennessee § 48-55-104 - Service on corporation.
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§ 48-55-104. Service on corporation.
A corporation's registered agent is the corporation's agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the corporation. Whenever a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this state fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, whenever its registered agent cannot be found with reasonable diligence, whenever a foreign corporation shall transact business or conduct affairs in this state without first procuring a certificate of authority to do so from the secretary of state, or whenever the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation shall have been withdrawn or revoked, then the secretary of state shall be an agent of such corporation upon whom any such process, notice, or demand may be served. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a corporation. Acts 1987, ch. 242, § 5.04. Cross-References. Qualified applicability of Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act to certain rural electric and community services cooperatives, § 65-25-125 .
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Section 48-55-104 ("Service on corporation.") is part of the Tennessee Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Tennessee. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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