2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47 - Land and Land Titles
Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act
Section 47-244b - Service of process on statutory agent.
(a) Any process, notice or demand in connection with any action or proceeding required or permitted by law to be served upon a unit owners’ association which is subject to the provisions of section 47-244a may be served upon the association’s statutory agent for service by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service.
(b) If it appears from the records of the Secretary of the State that such a unit owners’ association has failed to appoint or maintain a statutory agent for service, or if it appears by affidavit attached to the process, notice or demand of the officer or other proper person directed to serve any process, notice or demand upon such an association’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 association 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 such 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 or person that service is being made pursuant to this section, addressed to such association 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 day and hour of such receipt. Service made as provided in this section shall be effective as of such day and hour.
(d) Nothing herein contained shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a unit owners’ association in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law.
(P.A. 91-341, S. 17, 19.)
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