2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 18 - Financial Institutions, Insurance
Chapter 707 - Organization to Conduct Banking Business; Stockholders, Directors and Officers
Section 707.188 - Service of process on institution or Oregon stock savings bank.
(1) The registered agent appointed by an institution or Oregon stock savings bank shall be an agent of the institution or Oregon stock savings bank upon whom any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the institution or Oregon stock savings bank may be served.
(2) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall be an agent of an institution or Oregon stock savings bank, including a dissolved institution or Oregon stock savings bank, upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served whenever the institution or Oregon stock savings bank fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state or whenever the institution’s or Oregon stock savings bank’s registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office.
(3) Service shall be made on the director by:
(a) Serving the director or a clerk on duty at the office of the director a copy of the process, notice or demand, with any papers required by law to be delivered in connection with the service, and the required fee for each party being served or by mailing to the office of the director a copy of the process, notice or demand and the required fee for each party being served by certified or registered mail;
(b) Transmittal by the person instituting the proceedings of notice of the service on the director and a copy of the process, notice or demand and accompanying papers to the institution or Oregon stock savings bank being served by certified or registered mail:
(A) At the last registered office of the institution or Oregon stock savings bank as shown by the records of the director; and
(B) At such address the use of which the person initiating the proceedings knows or, on the basis of reasonable inquiry, has reason to believe is most likely to result in actual notice; and
(c) Filing with the appropriate court or other body, as part of the return of service, the return receipt of mailing and an affidavit of the person initiating the proceedings stating that this section has been complied with.
(4) The director shall keep a record of all processes, notices and demands served upon the director under this section.
(5) After completion of initial service upon the director, no additional documents need be served upon the director to maintain jurisdiction in the same proceeding or to give notice of any motion or provisional process.
(6) 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 an institution or Oregon stock savings bank in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law, or enlarge the purposes for which service on the director is permitted where such purposes are limited by other provisions of law. [2005 c.192 §5]
