New Jersey Statutes 15A:4-2. Function of registered agent and office; service of process, notice or demand
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 15A:4-2
- 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.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- 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
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
b. 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 conduct activities in this State, its officers or trustees, the notice or demand may be sent by mail or otherwise, as the law may require, to the registered office of the corporation in this State, and the notice given or demand made shall be sufficient notice or demand.
c. 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 the corporation, its officers or trustees.
d. Whenever the law of this State requires that any certificate, report or statement made, published, filed or recorded by any corporation, domestic or foreign, state the residence address of any incorporator, trustee or officer, there must be furnished in the document the residence address of that person or other address, other than a postal designation, where the person regularly receives mail and which is not the address of the corporation.
L.1983, c. 127, s. 15A:4-2, eff. Oct. 1, 1983.