2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 34 - Limited Partnerships, Partnerships, Professional Associations, Limited Liability Companies and Statutory Trusts
Chapter 613 - Limited Liability Companies
Section 34-105 - Service of process on statutory agent, member or manager.

(a) Any process, notice or demand in connection with any action or proceeding required or permitted by law to be served upon a limited liability company which is subject to the provisions of section 34-104, may be served upon the limited liability company’s statutory agent for service 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.

(b) If it appears from the records of the Secretary of the State that such a limited liability company has failed to appoint or maintain a statutory agent for service, or if it appears by affidavit endorsed on the return of the officer or other proper person directed to serve any process, notice or demand upon such a limited liability company’s statutory agent for service appearing on the records of the Secretary of the State that such agent cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found at the address shown on such records as the agent’s address, service of such process, notice or demand on such limited liability company may, when timely made, be made by such officer or other proper person by: (1) Leaving a true and attested copy thereof together with the required fee at the office of the Secretary of the State or depositing the same in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to said office, and (2) depositing in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, a true and attested copy thereof, together with a statement by such officer that service is being made pursuant to this section, addressed to such limited liability company at its principal office.

(c) The Secretary of the State shall file the copy of each process, notice or demand received by him as provided in subsection (b) of this section and keep a record of the date and hour of such receipt. Service made as provided in this section shall be effective as of such date and hour.

(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this section, any process, notice or demand in connection with any action or proceeding required or permitted by law to be served upon a limited liability company which is subject to the provisions of section 34-104 may be served upon any member of the limited liability company in whom management of the limited liability company is vested or any manager of the limited liability company 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 member or manager or by leaving it at such member’s usual place of abode in this state or, in the case of a manager who is a natural person, at such manager’s usual place of abode in this state.

(e) Nothing contained in this section shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a limited liability company in any other manner permitted by law.

(P.A. 93-267, S. 6; 98-137, S. 30, 62; 98-219, S. 33, 34; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 26, 121; P.A. 10-178, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 98-137 amended Subsec. (a) to specify that the manner of service is “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”, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-219 revised effective date of P.A. 98-137, but without affecting this section; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 24, 1998; P.A. 10-178 amended Subsec. (c) to make technical changes, added new Subsec. (d) to authorize service on a member or manager and specify manner of such service and redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (e).