2009 California Financial Code - Section 33260-33262 :: Article 4. Service Of Process

33260.  The provisions of this article are in addition to, and not
in limitation of, other provisions of law relating to service of
process.

33261.  Before any corporation is issued a license, such corporation
shall file with the commissioner, in such form as the commissioner
may by regulation or order require, an appointment irrevocably
appointing the commissioner and his or her successor from time to
time in office to be such corporation's attorney to receive service
of any lawful process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative
proceeding against such corporation, or any of its successors, which
arises under this division or under any regulation or order issued
under this division after such appointment has been filed, with the
same force and validity as if served personally on such corporation
or its successor, as the case may be. Service may be made by leaving
a copy of the process at any office of the commissioner, but such
service is not effective unless (a) the party making such service,
who may be the commissioner, forthwith sends notice of such service
and a copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the
party served at its last address on file with the commissioner, and
(b) an affidavit of compliance with this section by the party making
service is filed in the case on or before the return date, if any, or
within such further time as the court, in the case of a judicial
proceeding, or the administrative agency, in the case of an
administrative proceeding, allows.

33262.  Whenever any person, including any nonresident of this
state, engages in conduct prohibited or made actionable by this
division or by any regulation or order issued under this division,
whether or not such person has filed an appointment under Section
33261, and if personal jurisdiction over such person cannot otherwise
be obtained in this state, such conduct shall be considered
equivalent to the appointment of the commissioner and the
commissioner's successor from time to time in office to be such
person's attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any
noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against such
person, or any of such person's successors, executors, or
administrators, which grows out of such conduct and which is brought
under this division, with the same force and validity as if served
personally on such person or on such successor, executor, or
administrator, as the case may be. Service may be made by leaving a
copy of the process in any office of the commissioner but such
service is not effective unless (a) the party making such service,
who may be the commissioner, forthwith sends notice of such service
and a copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the
party served at his or her last known address or takes other steps
which are reasonably calculated to give actual notice, and (b) an
affidavit of compliance with this section by the party making service
is filed in the case on or before the return date, if any, or within
such further time as the court, in the case of a judicial
proceeding, or the administrative agency, in the case of an
administrative proceeding, allows.