Iowa Code 486A.1214 – Service on partnership
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1. A partnership‘s registered agent is the partnership‘s agent for service of any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the partnership.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 486A.1214
- 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
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Partnership: means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under section 486A. See Iowa Code 486A.101
2. If a partnership has no registered agent, or the registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the partnership may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the partnership at its chief executive office. Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of the following:
a. The date the partnership receives the process, notice, or demand.
b. The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the partnership.
c. Five days after mailing.
3. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a partnership.