2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 33-663. Service of process on corporation.
Sec. 33-663. Service of process on corporation. (a) 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. Service may be effected by any proper
officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service by leaving a true and attested
copy of the process, notice or demand with such agent or, in the case of an agent who
is a natural person, by leaving it at such agent's usual place of abode in this state.
(c) This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a corporation.
(P.A. 94-186, S. 38, 215; P.A. 96-271, S. 30, 254; P.A. 97-246, S. 9, 10, 99.)
History: P.A. 94-186 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 96-271 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision authorizing service to be effected by leaving a copy with the agent or, in the case of an agent who is a natural person, at the agent's usual place of abode, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 97-246 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to provide that service may be made by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service and amended Subsec. (b) to provide that the service sent to the corporation is a true and attested copy of the process, notice or demand, replace "perfected" with "effective" and replace "postpaid" with "postage prepaid", effective June 27, 1997.
See Sec. 1-2a re construing of references to "United States mail" or "postmark" to include references to any delivery service designated by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to Section 7502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any successor to the code, as amended, and to any date recorded or marked as described in said Section 7502 by a designated delivery service and construing of "registered or certified mail" to include any equivalent designated by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to said Section 7502.
Annotations to former section 33-297:
Cited. 226 C. 773, 784. P.A. 93-431 cited. Id.
Cited. 21 CA 339, 340.
Subsec. (a):
Cited. 42 CS 187, 191.
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