2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.1510 - SERVICE ON FOREIGN CORPORATION.

        490.1510  SERVICE ON FOREIGN CORPORATION.
         1.  The registered agent of a foreign corporation authorized to
      transact business in this state is the corporation's agent for
      service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to
      be served on the foreign corporation.
         2.  A foreign corporation may be served by registered or certified
      mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the
      foreign corporation at its principal office shown in its application
      for a certificate of authority or in its most recent biennial report
      if the foreign corporation meets any of the following conditions:
         a.  Has no registered agent or its registered agent cannot
      with reasonable diligence be served.
         b.  Has withdrawn from transacting business in this state
      under section 490.1520.
         c.  Has had its certificate of authority revoked under section
      490.1531.
         3.  Service is perfected under subsection 2 at the earliest of:
         a.  The date the foreign corporation receives the mail.
         b.  The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf
      of the foreign corporation.
         c.  Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as
      evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly
      addressed.
         4.  A foreign corporation may also be served in any other manner
      permitted by law.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §170; 97 Acts, ch 171, § 16
         Referred to in § 490.1531, 490.1532