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2012 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVI BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 617 CORPORATIONS NOT FOR PROFIT Entire Chapter
SECTION 1510
Service of process, notice, or demand on a foreign corporation.
F.S. 617.1510
617.1510 Service of process, notice, or demand on a foreign corporation.—
(1) The registered agent of a foreign corporation authorized to conduct its affairs in this state is the corporation’s agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the foreign corporation.
(2) A foreign corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the foreign corporation at its principal office shown in its application for a certificate of authority or in its most recent annual report if the foreign corporation:
(a) Has no registered agent or its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served;
(b) Has withdrawn from conducting its affairs in this state under s. 617.1520; or
(c) Has had its certificate of authority revoked under s. 617.1531.
(3) Service is perfected under subsection (2) at the earliest of:
(a) The date the foreign corporation receives the mail;
(b) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the foreign corporation; or
(c) Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
(4) This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a foreign corporation. Process against any foreign corporation may also be served in accordance with chapter 48 or chapter 49.
(5) Any notice to or demand on a foreign corporation made pursuant to this act may be made in accordance with the procedures for notice to or demand on domestic corporations under s. 617.0504.
History.—s. 100, ch. 90-179.