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1995 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 13.1-637 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 13.1-637. Service on corporation.
A. 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. The registered agent may by instrument in writing,
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 and may, by instrument in writing, authorize service of
process by facsimile by the sheriff, provided acknowlegement of receipt of
service is returned by facsimile to the sheriff. Whenever any such
person so designated by the registered agent accepts service of
process or whenever service is by facsimile, a photographic copy of
such instrument the instruments designating the person or
authorizing the method of service and receipt shall be attached to the
return.
B. Whenever a corporation 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 corporation upon whom service may be made in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.
C. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a corporation.