The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 8 V.S.A. § 4489)
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§ 4489. Service of process
(a) Every society authorized to do business in this State shall appoint in writing the
Secretary of State and each successor in office to be its true and lawful attorney
upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding against it shall be served,
and shall agree in the writing that any lawful process against it which is served
on the attorney shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served upon the
society, and that the authority shall continue in force so long as any liability remains
outstanding in this State. Copies of the appointment, certified by the Secretary of
State, shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof and shall be admitted in evidence
with the same force and effect as the original thereof might be admitted.
(b) Service may be made upon the Secretary of State or, if absent, upon the person in
charge of the Secretary’s office. It shall be made in duplicate and shall constitute
sufficient service upon the society. When legal process against a society is served
upon the Secretary of State, the Secretary shall immediately forward one of the duplicate
copies by registered mail prepaid, directed to the secretary or corresponding officer.
(c) The service authorized in this section shall be alternative to and not exclusive of
any other method of service provided by law or by rule. (Added 1959, No. 197, § 29, eff. Nov. 22, 1959; amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 20, eff. March 29, 1972; 2003, No. 70 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 1, 2004; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 199, eff. July 1, 2022.)