Vermont Statutes Annotated

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 12, § 853 (2026)

Doing business by particular companies without designating process agent; penalty

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Subchapter 006 : BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 853)

§ 853. Doing business by particular companies without designating process agent; penalty

A person or agent for a foreign insurance, express, shipping car, telephone or telegraph company, or other foreign company doing like business, which has not designated the Secretary of State as its process agent, who solicits or receives a risk or application for insurance, or receives money or value for such insurance by such company, or receives money or value for the transportation of a package or property by such express or shipping car company, or for the transmission of a message or dispatch by such telegraph company, or receives money, rent, royalty, or income for such telephone company for the use of its instruments or lines or for the sending of any message, shall be fined not more than $500.00 nor less than $100.00. (Amended 2025, No. 10, § 25, eff. July 1, 2025.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1963–1964 · leading case: Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr. v. United Press Int'l, 320 F.2d 219 (2d Cir. 1963).

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Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr. v. United Press Int'l, 320 F.2d 219 (2d Cir. 1963). · cites it 2× “261, § 11, to include other persons on whom process against a domestic corporation could be served — is limited to “a foreign insurance, express, shipping car, telephone, or telegraph company or other foreign company doing like business” in the state, 12 V.S.A. §§ 853, 854, all…”

Avery v. Bender, 204 A.2d 314 (Vt. 1964). “However, the plaintiff claims to have acquired in personam jurisdiction in any event.”

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Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 12, § 853 (2026)

Doing business by particular companies without designating process agent; penalty

Subchapter 006 : BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS