Missouri Laws 355.796 – Service upon foreign corporation
1. The registered agent of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state is the corporation‘s agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the foreign corporation.
2. A foreign corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the foreign corporation at its principal office shown in its application for a certificate of authority or in its more recent corporate registration report filed under section 355.856 if the foreign corporation:
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 355.796
- 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.
- Corporation: public benefit and mutual benefit corporations. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Foreign corporation: a corporation organized under a law other than the laws of this state which would be a nonprofit corporation if formed under the laws of this state. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Principal office: the office, in or out of this state, so designated in the corporate registration report filed pursuant to section 355. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Secretary: the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility pursuant to subsection 2 of section 355. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: when referring to a part of the United States, includes a state or commonwealth, and its agencies and governmental subdivisions, and any territory or insular possession, and its agencies and governmental subdivisions, of the United States. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- United States: includes any agency of the United States. See Missouri Laws 355.066
(1) Has no registered agent or its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served;
(2) Has withdrawn from transacting business in this state under section 355.801; or
(3) Has had its certificate of authority revoked under section 355.811.
3. Service is perfected under subsection 2 of this section at the earliest of:
(1) The date the foreign corporation receives the mail;
(2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the foreign corporation; or
(3) Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
4. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a foreign corporation.