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SENATE BILL NO. 895 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice on January 28, 2013) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Petersen) A BILL to amend and reenact § 8.01-299 of the Code of Virginia, relating to substituted service of process on registered agent of corporation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 8.01-299 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.01-299. How process served on domestic corporations generally.

Except as prescribed in § 8.01-300 as to municipal and quasi-governmental corporations, and subject to § 8.01-286.1, process may be served on a corporation created by the laws of the Commonwealth as follows:

1. By personal service on any officer, director, or registered agent of such corporation; or

2. By substituted service on stock corporations in accordance with § 13.1-637 and on nonstock corporations in accordance with § 13.1-836; or

3. By substituted service on the registered agent of the corporation, if personal service cannot be effected under subsection 1, by posting a copy of the process on the front door or main entrance of the corporation's registered office in the manner of subdivision 2 b of § 8.01-296.