(a) A limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company may be served with any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service leaving a true and attested copy with such company's registered agent, or at his or her usual place of abode in this state.
(b) When the Secretary of the State and the Secretary of the State's successors in office have been appointed a foreign limited liability company's agent for service of process, the foreign limited liability company may be served by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service leaving two true and attested copies of such process together with the required fee at the office of the Secretary of the State or depositing the same in the United States mail, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to said office. The Secretary of the State shall file one copy of such process and keep a record of the date and hour of such receipt, and, within two business days after such service, forward by registered or certified mail the other copy of such process to the foreign limited liability company at the address of the office designated in the application for registration filed pursuant to subdivision (4) of section 34-275b. Service so made shall be effective as of the date and hour received by the Secretary of the State as shown on the Secretary of the State's records.
(c) If a limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company ceases to have a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service, the company or foreign company may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the company or foreign company at its principal office. The address of the principal office shall be as shown on the company's or foreign company's most recent annual report filed by the Secretary of the State. Service is effected under this subsection on the earliest of: (1) The date the company or foreign company receives the mail or delivery by the commercial delivery service; (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed by the company or foreign company; or (3) five days after its deposit with the United States Postal Service, or with the commercial delivery service, if correctly addressed and with sufficient postage or payment.
(d) If process, notice or demand cannot be served on a limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of this section, service may be made by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service handing a copy to the individual in charge of any regular place of business or activity of the company or foreign company if the individual served is not a plaintiff in the action.
(e) Service of process, notice or demand on a registered agent shall be in a written record.
(f) Service of process, notice or demand may be made by other means under law other than the provisions of sections 34-243 to 34-283d, inclusive.
(P.A. 16-97, S. 19; P.A. 19-41, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 16-97 effective July 1, 2017; P.A. 19-41 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “serving its registered agent” with “any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service leaving a true and attested copy with such company's registered agent, or at his or her usual place of abode in this state”, amended Subsecs. (c) and (d) by adding “any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service” and made technical changes.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 613a - Uniform Limited Liability Company Act
Section 34-243. - Short title: Connecticut Uniform Limited Liability Company Act.
Section 34-243a. - Definitions.
Section 34-243b. - Knowledge. Notice.
Section 34-243c. - Governing law.
Section 34-243d. - Operating agreement: Scope, function and limitations.
Section 34-243g. - Nature, purpose and duration of limited liability company.
Section 34-243h. - Powers and purposes. Restrictions.
Section 34-243i. - Effective date. Application to existing relationships.
Section 34-243j. - Supplemental principles of law.
Section 34-243k. - Permitted name.
Section 34-243l. - Reservation of name.
Section 34-243m. - Registration of name.
Section 34-243n. - Registered agent.
Section 34-243p. - Resignation of registered agent.
Section 34-243q. - Change of name or address by registered agent.
Section 34-243r. - Service of process, notice or demand.
Section 34-243s. - Delivery of record.
Section 34-243t. - Reservation of power to amend or repeal.
Section 34-243u. - Fees payable to Secretary of the State. Sales tax not imposed.
Section 34-243w. - Savings clause.
Section 34-247. - Formation of limited liability company. Certificate of organization.
Section 34-247a. - Amendment or restatement of certificate of organization.
Section 34-247b. - Signing of records delivered to Secretary of the State for filing.
Section 34-247c. - Signing and filing of record pursuant to judicial order.
Section 34-247d. - Liability for inaccurate information in filed record.
Section 34-247e. - Filing requirements.
Section 34-247f. - Effective date and time.
Section 34-247g. - Withdrawal of filed record prior to taking effect.
Section 34-247h. - Correcting filed record.
Section 34-247i. - Duties of Secretary of the State re filing and delivery of record.
Section 34-247j. - Certificate of legal existence.
Section 34-247k. - Annual report.
Section 34-251. - Effect of person's status as member.
Section 34-251a. - Liability of members and managers.
Section 34-255. - Becoming a member.
Section 34-255a. - Form of contribution.
Section 34-255b. - Liability for contribution.
Section 34-255c. - Sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution.
Section 34-255d. - Limitations on distributions.
Section 34-255e. - Liability for improper distributions.
Section 34-255f. - Management of limited liability company.
Section 34-255g. - Reimbursement, indemnification, advancement and insurance.
Section 34-255h. - Standards of conduct for members and managers.
Section 34-255i. - Rights of member, manager and person disassociated as member to information.
Section 34-259. - Nature of transferable interest.
Section 34-259a. - Transfer of transferable interest.
Section 34-259b. - Charging order.
Section 34-259c. - Power of legal representative of deceased member.
Section 34-263. - Power to dissociate as member. Wrongful dissociation.
Section 34-263a. - Events causing dissociation.
Section 34-263b. - Effect of dissociation.
Section 34-267. - Events causing dissolution.
Section 34-267a. - Winding up.
Section 34-267b. - Reinstatement after dissolution.
Section 34-267c. - Known claims against dissolved limited liability company.
Section 34-267d. - Other claims against dissolved limited liability company.
Section 34-267e. - Court proceedings.
Section 34-267f. - Disposition of assets in winding up.
Section 34-267g. - Dissolution by forfeiture.
Section 34-271. - Direct action by member.
Section 34-271a. - Derivative action.
Section 34-271b. - Derivative action. Proper plaintiff.
Section 34-271c. - Derivative action. Pleading.
Section 34-271d. - Derivative action. Special litigation committee.
Section 34-271e. - Derivative action. Proceeds and expenses.
Section 34-275. - Governing law.
Section 34-275a. - Registration to transact business in this state.
Section 34-275b. - Foreign registration statement.
Section 34-275c. - Amendment of foreign registration certificate.
Section 34-275d. - Activities not constituting transacting business in this state.
Section 34-275e. - Noncomplying name of foreign limited liability company.
Section 34-275f. - Transfer of registration.
Section 34-275g. - Revocation of foreign registration certificate.
Section 34-275h. - Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign limited liability company.
Section 34-275i. - Action by Attorney General.
Section 34-279. - Definitions.
Section 34-279a. - Applicability of other statutes.
Section 34-279b. - Required notice or approval.
Section 34-279c. - Status of filings.
Section 34-279d. - Nonexclusivity.
Section 34-279e. - Plan reference to external facts.
Section 34-279f. - Applicability of appraisal rights.
Section 34-279g. - Excluded entities and transactions.
Section 34-279h. - Merger authorized.
Section 34-279i. - Action on plan of merging limited liability company.
Section 34-279j. - Filings required for merger. Effective date.
Section 34-279k. - Effect of merger.
Section 34-279l. - Interest exchange authorized.
Section 34-279m. - Plan of interest exchange.
Section 34-279n. - Approval of interest exchange.
Section 34-279o. - Amendment or abandonment of plan of interest exchange.
Section 34-279p. - Certificate of interest exchange. Effective date of interest exchange.
Section 34-279q. - Effect of interest exchange.
Section 34-283. - Uniformity of application and construction.
Section 34-283a. - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
Section 34-283b. - Savings clause.
Section 34-283c. - Severability clause.