A. Every nonresident applicant shall file with the Real Estate Board an irrevocable consent that suits and actions may be commenced against such applicant in the proper court of any county or city of this Commonwealth in which a cause of action may arise or in which the plaintiff may reside, by the service of any process or pleading authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth on the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. The consent shall stipulate that such service of process or pleadings on the Director shall be taken and held in all courts to be as valid and binding as if due service had been made upon the applicant in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
B. Any process or pleadings served upon the Director shall be filed by the Director in his office and a copy thereof immediately forwarded by registered mail to the main office of the licensee at the last known address.
Code 1950, §§ 54-773, 54-774; 1988, c. 765; 1993, c. 499.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 54.1 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 21 - Real Estate Brokers, Sales Persons and Rental Location Agents
§ 54.1-2101. Real estate salesperson defined
§ 54.1-2101.1. Preparation of real estate contracts by real estate licensees; translation
§ 54.1-2103. Exemptions from chapter
§ 54.1-2104. Real Estate Board; membership; chairman; seal
§ 54.1-2105.01. Educational requirements for all salespersons within one year of licensure
§ 54.1-2105.02. Regulation of real estate education providers and courses
§ 54.1-2105.03. Continuing education; relicensure of brokers and salespersons
§ 54.1-2105.04. Education requirements; reactivation of licenses; waiver
§ 54.1-2105.1. (Effective until January 1, 2023) Other powers and duties of the Real Estate Board
§ 54.1-2105.1. (Effective January 1, 2023) Other powers and duties of the Real Estate Board
§ 54.1-2105.2. Cease and desist orders for unlicensed activity; civil penalty
§ 54.1-2106.1. Licenses required
§ 54.1-2106.2. Certification of audit on renewal of firm or sole proprietorship license
§ 54.1-2107. Certain action to constitute real estate broker or salesperson
§ 54.1-2108. Protection of escrow funds, etc., held by broker
§ 54.1-2109. (Effective until January 1, 2023) Death or disability of a real estate broker
§ 54.1-2109. (Effective January 1, 2023) Death or disability of a real estate broker
§ 54.1-2110. Resident broker to maintain place of business in Virginia
§ 54.1-2110.1. Duties of supervising broker
§ 54.1-2111. Consent to suits and service of process by nonresidents; manner of service
§ 54.1-2111.1. Voluntary compliance program; real estate brokers
§ 54.1-2113. Establishment and maintenance of fund, duty of Director, assessments of regulants
§ 54.1-2114. Recovery from fund generally
§ 54.1-2116. Limitations upon recovery from fund; certain actions not a bar to recovery
§ 54.1-2117. Participation by Board in proceedings
§ 54.1-2118. Payment of claim; assignment of claimant's rights to Board
§ 54.1-2119. Revocation of license of regulant upon payment from fund
§ 54.1-2120. No waiver by Board of disciplinary action against regulant
§ 54.1-2131. Licensees engaged by sellers
§ 54.1-2132. Licensees engaged by buyers
§ 54.1-2133. Licensees engaged by landlords to lease property
§ 54.1-2134. Licensees engaged by tenants
§ 54.1-2135. Licensees engaged to manage real estate
§ 54.1-2136. Preconditions to brokerage relationship
§ 54.1-2137. Commencement and termination of brokerage relationships
§ 54.1-2138. Disclosure of brokerage relationship in residential real estate transactions
§ 54.1-2138.2. Duty to disclose ownership interest in specific real property
§ 54.1-2140. Compensation shall not imply brokerage relationship
§ 54.1-2141. Brokerage relationship not created by using common source information company
§ 54.1-2142. Liability; knowledge not to be imputed
§ 54.1-2142.1. Liability for false information
§ 54.1-2143. Real estate board regulations to be consistent
§ 54.1-2144. Common law abrogated