§ 4010. Service of process
(a) An agent for service of process appointed by a limited liability company or a foreign limited liability company is an agent of the company for service of any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the company.
(b) If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company fails to appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this State or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent’s address, the Secretary of State is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served.
(c) Service of any process, notice, or demand on the Secretary of State may be made by delivering to and leaving with the Secretary of State duplicate copies of the process, notice, or demand. If the process, notice, or demand is served on the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State shall forward one of the copies by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the company at its registered office. Service on the Secretary of State shall be returnable in not less than 30 days.
(d) The Secretary of State shall keep a record of all processes, notices, and demands served pursuant to this section and record the time of and the action taken regarding the service.
(e) This section shall not affect the right to serve process, notice, or demand upon a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company in any manner otherwise provided by law. (Added 2015, No. 17, § 2.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 11 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
Chapter 25 - Limited Liability Companies
§ 4003. Effect of operating agreement; nonwaivable provisions
§ 4004. Supplemental principles of law
§ 4007. Designated office and agent
§ 4008. Change of designated office or agent for service of process
§ 4009. Resignation of agent for service of process
§ 4011. Nature of business and powers; governing law
§ 4021. Limited liability company as legal entity
§ 4023. Articles of organization
§ 4024. Amendment or restatement of articles of organization
§ 4026. Filing in Office of Secretary of State
§ 4027. Correcting filed document
§ 4028. Certificate of existence or authorization
§ 4029. Liability for false statement in filed document
§ 4030. Filing by judicial act
§ 4031. Limited liability company property
§ 4032. When property is limited liability company property
§ 4033. Annual report for Secretary of State
§ 4034. Involuntary termination
§ 4041. No agency power of member as member
§ 4042. Liability of members and managers
§ 4053. Member’s liability for contributions
§ 4054. Management of limited liability company
§ 4055. Sharing of profits and losses and right to distributions
§ 4056. Limitations on distributions
§ 4057. Liability for unlawful distributions
§ 4059. General standards of member’s and manager’s conduct
§ 4060. Reimbursement, indemnification, and insurance
§ 4071. Member’s distributional interest
§ 4072. Transfer of distributional interest
§ 4075. Power of estate of deceased member
§ 4081. Events causing member’s dissociation
§ 4082. Member’s power to dissociate; wrongful dissociation
§ 4083. Effect of member’s dissociation
§ 4101. Events causing dissolution and winding up of company business
§ 4102. Limited liability company continues after dissolution
§ 4103. Right to wind up limited liability company’s business
§ 4104. Member’s or manager’s power and liability as agent after dissolution
§ 4105. Articles of termination
§ 4106. Distribution of assets in winding up limited liability company’s business
§ 4107. Known claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 4108. Other claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 4109. Enforcement of claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 4111. Law governing foreign limited liability companies
§ 4112. Application for certificate of authority
§ 4113. Activities not constituting transacting business
§ 4114. Issuance of certificate of authority
§ 4115. Amended certificate of authority
§ 4116. Name of foreign limited liability company
§ 4117. Revocation of certificate of authority
§ 4118. Cancellation of authority
§ 4119. Effect of failure to obtain certificate of authority
§ 4120. Action by Attorney General
§ 4122. Designation of controlling foreign law
§ 4123. Scope of designated foreign law
§ 4131. Direct action by member
§ 4135. Special litigation committee
§ 4144. Approval of conversion
§ 4145. Amendment or abandonment of plan of conversion
§ 4146. Statement of conversion; effective date of conversion
§ 4149. Action on plan of merger by constituent limited liability company
§ 4150. Filings required for merger; effective date
§ 4153. Action on plan of domestication by domesticating limited liability company
§ 4154. Filings required for domestication; effective date
§ 4155. Effect of domestication
§ 4156. Restrictions on approval of mergers, conversions, and domestications
§ 4157. Subchapter not exclusive
§ 4163. Failure to meet requirements
§ 4173. Authority; requirements
§ 4174. Multiple roles of members and managers
§ 4175. Consensus formation algorithms and governance processes