2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 53 - Corporations
Article 17 - Business Corporations; Foreign Corporations
Section 53-17-9 - Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation.
Each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state shall have and continuously maintain in this state:
A. a registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business in this state; and
B. a registered agent, which agent may be either an individual resident in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a domestic corporation, or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state, having a business office identical with the registered office.
History: 1953 Comp., § 51-30-8, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 81, § 110.
Compiler's notes. — This section is derived from Section 113 of the ABA Model Business Corporation Act.
Venue. — Foreign corporations that have appointed a foreign corporation as their statutory agent may receive the benefit of the special venue provisions of Section 38-3-1F NMSA 1978. Cooper v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., 2002-NMSC-020, 132 N.M. 382, 49 P.3d 61.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 36 Am. Jur. 2d Foreign Corporations §§ 229, 233.
19 C.J.S. Corporations §§ 902, 909, 955.
