O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 14-3-504 (2019)

Service of process on corporation

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(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.

(b) If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail or statutory overnight delivery, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. Service is perfected under this subsection on the earliest of:

(1) The date the corporation receives the mail;

(2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; or

(3) Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, if mailed postage prepaid and correctly addressed.

(c) This Code section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a corporation.

History

(Code 1981, § 14-3-504, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3.)

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to this

Code section is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 6 Am. Jur. 2d, Associations and Clubs, § 58. 19 Am. Jur. 2d, Corporations, § 1882 et seq. C.J.S. - 7 C.J.S., Associations, § 49. 19 C.J.S., Corporations, §§ 804, 805. ALR. - Nonresident director or officer

of domestic corporation as subject to constructive service of process in suit or proceeding to enforce duty or obligation to corporation, its stockholders or creditors, 148 ALR 1251.

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