490.504 - SERVICE ON CORPORATION.

        490.504  SERVICE ON CORPORATION.         1.  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.  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, return receipt requested, addressed to      the secretary of the corporation at its principal office.  Service is      perfected under this subsection at the earliest of:         a.  The date the corporation receives the mail.         b.  The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf      of the corporation.         c.  Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as      evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly      addressed.         3.  A corporation may be served pursuant to this section, as      provided in other provisions of this chapter, or as provided in      sections 617.3 through 617.6, unless the manner of service is      otherwise specifically provided for by statute.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 288, §35; 96 Acts, ch 1170, § 7         Referred to in § 490.1114, 490.1421, 490.1422, 490.1423, 624.23