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title: "36 U.S.C. § 200310"
description: "Service of process"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "2003"
chapter_name: "SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR"
section: "200310"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 200310"
status: "current"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 200310 - Service of process

## Text

The corporation shall have a designated agent in the District of Columbia to receive service of process for the corporation. Notice to or service on the agent, or mailed to the business address of the agent, is notice to or service on the corporation.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1455.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 20031036:539(b).Aug. 20, 1954, ch. 774, § 9(b), 68 Stat. 751. The words “at all times” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “to receive” are substituted for “authorized to accept”, and the words “is notice to or service on” are substituted for “shall be deemed notice to or service upon”, for consistency in the revised title.