A. A domestic or foreign business trust's registered agent is the business trust's agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the business trust. The registered agent may, by instrument in writing and acknowledged before a notary public, designate a person or persons in the office of the registered agent upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served. Whenever any such person accepts service of process, a photographic copy of such instrument shall be attached to the return.
B. Whenever a domestic or foreign business trust fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this Commonwealth, or whenever its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the business trust upon whom service may be made in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.
C. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a domestic or foreign business trust.
2002, c. 621.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act
§ 13.1-1202. Filing requirements
§ 13.1-1203. Issuance of certificate by Commission; recordation of documents
§ 13.1-1204. Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates
§ 13.1-1205. Unlawful to sign false documents; penalty
§ 13.1-1206. Unlawful to transact or offer to transact business as a business trust; penalty
§ 13.1-1207. Tax classification
§ 13.1-1208. Separate legal entity
§ 13.1-1212. Articles of trust
§ 13.1-1213. Articles of correction
§ 13.1-1216. Amendment of articles of trust
§ 13.1-1217. Restatement of articles of trust
§ 13.1-1219. Governing instrument
§ 13.1-1220. Registered office and registered agent
§ 13.1-1221. Change of registered office or registered agent
§ 13.1-1222. Resignation of registered agent
§ 13.1-1223. Service on business trust
§ 13.1-1224. Beneficial owners
§ 13.1-1225. Limited liability
§ 13.1-1226. Beneficial interests
§ 13.1-1227. Distributions to beneficial owners
§ 13.1-1228. Trustee management; limitation on duties and liabilities of others
§ 13.1-1233. Payment of and security for expenses
§ 13.1-1234. Dissolution generally
§ 13.1-1235. Judicial dissolution
§ 13.1-1237. Distribution of assets upon dissolution
§ 13.1-1238. Articles of cancellation
§ 13.1-1238.1. Automatic cancellation of business trust existence
§ 13.1-1238.2. Involuntary cancellation of business trust existence
§ 13.1-1239. Reinstatement of a business trust that has ceased to exist
§ 13.1-1240. Dissolution of series
§ 13.1-1241. Authority to transact business required; governing law
§ 13.1-1242. Application for certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1245. Amendments; amended applications for registration
§ 13.1-1246. Voluntary cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1246.1. Automatic cancellation of registration
§ 13.1-1246.2. Involuntary cancellation of registration
§ 13.1-1246.3. Reinstatement of a certificate of registration that has been canceled
§ 13.1-1247. Transaction of business without registration; civil penalty
§ 13.1-1248. Actions by Attorney General
§ 13.1-1249. Transactions not constituting doing business
§ 13.1-1250. Merger of foreign business trust registered to transact business in Commonwealth
§ 13.1-1254. Penalty for failure to timely pay annual registration fees or file statement of change
§ 13.1-1256. Collection by suit and of unpaid bills
§ 13.1-1257. Authorization for merger
§ 13.1-1259. Exchange of securities; termination or amendment of merger
§ 13.1-1261. Articles of merger
§ 13.1-1262. Governing instrument
§ 13.1-1263.1. Abandonment of merger
§ 13.1-1266. Plan of domestication
§ 13.1-1267. Action on plan of domestication by a domestic business trust
§ 13.1-1268. Articles of domestication
§ 13.1-1269. Surrender of articles of trust upon domestication
§ 13.1-1270. Effect of domestication
§ 13.1-1271. Abandonment of domestication
§ 13.1-1272. Entity conversion
§ 13.1-1273. Plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1274. Action on plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1275. Articles of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1276. Effect of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1277. Abandonment of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1279. Inspection of records by beneficial owners
§ 13.1-1280. Scope of inspection right
§ 13.1-1281. Court-ordered inspection
§ 13.1-1282. Construction and application of chapter and governing instrument
§ 13.1-1283. Reservation of power to amend or repeal
§ 13.1-1284. Application to existing real estate investment trusts and foreign business trusts