New York Laws
Article 4 - Certificate of Designation by Associations Doing Business Within This State
18 - Designation of Secretary of State as an Agent for Service of Process.

(a) the names and places of residence of its officers and trustees
(b) its principal place of business
(c) the place where its office within this state is located and if
such place be in a city, the location thereof by street and number or
other particular description.
3. Any association, from time to time, may change the address to which
the secretary of state is directed to mail copies of process or specify,
change or delete the email address to which the secretary of state shall
email a notice of the fact that process against the association has been
electronically served upon him or her, by filing a statement to that
effect, executed, signed and acknowledged in like manner as a
certificate of designation as herein provided.
4. Any association doing business within this state without having
filed the certificate of designation prescribed by this section shall
not maintain any action or special proceeding in this state unless and
until such association has filed the certificate of designation
prescribed by this section and it has paid to the state all fees,
penalties and franchise taxes for the years or parts thereof during
which it did business in this state without having filed the certificate
of designation prescribed by this section. This prohibition shall apply
to any successor in interest of such association. The failure of an
association to file the certificate of designation prescribed by this
section shall not impair the validity of any contract or act of the
association or the right of any other party to the contract to maintain
any action or special proceeding thereon, and shall not prevent the
association from defending any action or special proceeding in this
state.