Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 14A:4-2

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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.
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(1) Every registered agent shall be an agent of the corporation which has appointed him, upon whom process against the corporation may be served.

(2) Whenever any law of this State requires or permits any notice or demand to be given to or made upon a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State, its officers or directors, such notice or demand may be sent by mail or otherwise, as the law may require or permit, to the registered office of the corporation in this State, and such notice so given or demand so made shall be sufficient notice or demand.

(3) The provisions of this section shall not exclude any other method provided by law for service of process upon a corporation, domestic or foreign, or for service of a notice or demand upon such corporation, its officers or directors.

(4) (Deleted by amendment, P.L. 1988, c. 94.)

L.1968, c.350; amended 1969,c.102,ss.2,17; 1988,c.94,s.14.