Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/121-6 – Acts constituting Secretary of State as agent for process
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/121-6
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- insurer: as used in this Article includes all corporations, associations, partnerships and individuals, engaged as principals in the business of insurance and also includes interinsurance exchanges and mutual benefit societies. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/121-3
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
Any act of transacting an insurance business, as set forth in Section 121-3; by any unauthorized insurer constitutes an irrevocable appointment by that insurer, binding upon him, his executor or administrator, or successor in interest if a corporation, of the Secretary of State, to be the true and lawful attorney of such insurer upon whom may be served all lawful process in any action, suit, or proceeding in any court by the Director or by the State and upon whom may be served any notice, order, pleading or process in any proceeding before the Director which arises out of transacting an insurance business in this State by that insurer. Any act of transacting an insurance business in this State by any unauthorized insurer signifies its agreement that any lawful process in such a court action, suit, or proceeding and any such notice, order, pleading, or process in an administrative proceeding before the Director so served shall be of the same legal force and validity as personal service of process in this State upon that insurer.