Missouri Laws 355.176 – Service
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.
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 corporate registration report filed under section 355.856. Service is perfected under this subsection on the earliest of:
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 355.176
- Class: a group of memberships which have the same rights with respect to voting, dissolution, redemption and transfer. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- 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: public benefit and mutual benefit corporations. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Principal office: the office, in or out of this state, so designated in the corporate registration report filed pursuant to section 355. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Secretary: the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility pursuant to subsection 2 of section 355. See Missouri Laws 355.066
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- United States: includes any agency of the United States. See Missouri Laws 355.066
(1) The date the corporation receives the mail;
(2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; or
(3) 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.