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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 3. NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS · Article 5. REGISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

14-3-504. Service of process on corporation.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (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.#

  2. (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. (1)

      The date the corporation receives the mail;#

    2. (2)

      The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; or#

    3. (3)

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

  3. (c)

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

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 14-3-504, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3; Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, effective July 1, 2023.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, reenacted this Code section without change.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t14-(v12)-pdf.pdf, Volume V12, 2017 edition, 2025 supplement, page 75; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b004123363dc.