Iowa Code 504.504 – Service on corporation
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1. A corporation‘s registered agent is the corporation‘s agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the corporation.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 504.504
- Class: means a group of memberships which have the same rights with respect to voting, dissolution, redemption, and transfer. See Iowa Code 504.141
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Corporation: means a public benefit, mutual benefit, or religious corporation. See Iowa Code 504.141
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Principal office: means the office in or out of this state so designated in the biennial report filed pursuant to section 504. See Iowa Code 504.141
- Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under section 504. See Iowa Code 504.141
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- United States: includes a district, authority, bureau, commission, department, and any other agency of the United States. See Iowa Code 504.141
2. If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office shown in the most recent biennial report filed pursuant to section 504.1613. Service is perfected under this subsection on the earliest of any of the following:
a. The date the corporation receives the mail.
b. The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation.
c. Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, if mailed and correctly addressed with first class postage affixed.
3. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a corporation. A corporation may also be served in any other manner permitted by law.