Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1447 – Secretary of state as agent for service
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1447
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
Any person who is not a resident of or domiciled within the state of Louisiana, and who, having no duly appointed agents for service of process within the state, engages in the business of distributing, selling, or packaging seeds within the state of Louisiana, does by such act appoint the secretary of state as his agent for service of process of any legal document and submits to the jurisdiction of any court within the parish where he engages in that business, as if such person were a citizen of or domiciled within said parish.
Amended by Acts 1977, No. 149, §5.