(a)Agent for service of process. A domestic or foreign LLC‘s registered agent is the agent for the domestic or foreign LLC for service of process, notice or demand, required or permitted by law to be served on the domestic or foreign LLC.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-249-112

  • Business: means every trade, occupation, profession, investment activity, and other lawful purpose for gain or the preservation of assets, whether or not carried on for profit. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
  • domestic: means a limited liability company formed under this chapter, or a limited liability company formed under the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act, compiled in chapters 201-248 of this title, that has elected to be governed by this chapter, or, where expressly indicated, a limited liability company formed under and governed by the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
  • foreign: means a limited liability company that is formed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
  • LLC: means a limited liability company, organized under chapters 201-248 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Proceeding: means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, and whether formal or informal. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
  • Registered agent: means the person designated as the registered agent of a domestic or foreign LLC in its articles or in an application for a certificate of authority, as applicable, as thereafter changed from time to time in accordance with this chapter. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
  • Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the bylaws or the board of directors has delegated responsibility under §. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Secretary of state: means the individual who holds the office of secretary of state of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b)Secretary of state is default agent. Whenever a domestic or foreign LLC authorized to transact business in this state fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, whenever the registered agent of a domestic or foreign LLC cannot be found with reasonable diligence, whenever a foreign LLC transacts business or conducts affairs in this state without first obtaining a certificate of authority from the secretary of state, or whenever the certificate of authority of a foreign LLC has been cancelled or revoked, then the secretary of state shall be an agent of such LLC upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served.
(c)Special agent for workers’ compensation. Whenever a domestic or foreign LLC authorized to transact business in this state is an employer, within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Law, compiled in title 50, chapter 6, and the domestic or foreign LLC is, for the purpose of the Workers’ Compensation Law, self-insured or a part of a self-insurance pool as provided in title 50, chapter 6, part 4, the domestic or foreign LLC shall, for workers’ compensation actions only, be required to appoint the commissioner of commerce and insurance and such commissioner’s chief deputy, or their successors, as its true and lawful attorneys upon either of whom all lawful process in any workers’ compensation action or legal proceeding against it may be served, as is required of insurance companies by § 56-2-103.
(d)Not exclusive means of service. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of service on a domestic or foreign LLC.
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