2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.504 - SERVICE ON CORPORATION.

        490.504  SERVICE ON CORPORATION.
         1.  A corporation's registered agent is the corporation's agent
      for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by
      law to be served on the corporation.
         2.  If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot
      with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by
      registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to
      the secretary of the corporation at its principal office.  Service is
      perfected under this subsection at the earliest of:
         a.  The date the corporation receives the mail.
         b.  The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf
      of the corporation.
         c.  Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as
      evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly
      addressed.
         3.  A corporation may be served pursuant to this section, as
      provided in other provisions of this chapter, or as provided in
      sections 617.3 through 617.6, unless the manner of service is
      otherwise specifically provided for by statute.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §35; 96 Acts, ch 1170, § 7
         Referred to in § 490.1114, 490.1421, 490.1422, 490.1423, 624.23