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Petition for Writ of Mandamus - Filed - Supreme Court of Texas

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TAX CODE CHAPTER 171. FRANCHISE TAX<br />

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TX/htm/TX.171.htm<br />

Page 83 <strong>of</strong> 88<br />

6/25/2012<br />

Sec. 171.355. SERVICE OF PROCESS ON SECRETARY OF STATE. (a)<br />

Legal process may be served on a domestic corporation by serving it on<br />

the secretary <strong>of</strong> state if the process relates to the <strong>for</strong>feiture <strong>of</strong> the<br />

corporation's charter or to the collection <strong>of</strong> a tax or penalty imposed<br />

by this chapter and:<br />

(1) if the local agent <strong>of</strong> the corporation or if the<br />

<strong>of</strong>ficers named in the corporation's charter or annual report on file<br />

with the secretary <strong>of</strong> state do not reside or cannot be located in the<br />

county in which the corporation's principal <strong>of</strong>fice, as stated in the<br />

charter, is located; or<br />

(2) if the principal <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> the corporation is not<br />

maintained or cannot be located in the county in which the charter<br />

states that the <strong>of</strong>fice is located.<br />

(b) Complete and valid service <strong>of</strong> process is made on a<br />

corporation through the secretary <strong>of</strong> state by delivering duplicate<br />

copies <strong>of</strong> the process to the secretary <strong>of</strong> state or the deputy<br />

secretary <strong>of</strong> state.<br />

(c) On receipt <strong>of</strong> legal process under this section, the<br />

secretary <strong>of</strong> state promptly shall <strong>for</strong>ward to the corporation by<br />

registered mail a copy <strong>of</strong> the process. The copy <strong>of</strong> the process shall<br />

be mailed to the address named in the corporation's charter as its<br />

principal place <strong>of</strong> business or to another place <strong>of</strong> business <strong>of</strong> the<br />

corporation as shown by the records in the secretary <strong>of</strong> state's <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />

(d) The failure <strong>of</strong> the secretary <strong>of</strong> state to mail a copy <strong>of</strong><br />

legal process to a corporation does not affect the validity <strong>of</strong> the<br />

service <strong>of</strong> process. It is competent and sufficient pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the<br />

service <strong>of</strong> process that the secretary <strong>of</strong> state certifies under the<br />

state seal the receipt <strong>of</strong> the process.<br />

(e) The secretary <strong>of</strong> state shall keep a record <strong>of</strong> each legal<br />

process served on the secretary under this section showing the date<br />

and time <strong>of</strong> the receipt <strong>of</strong> the process and the secretary's action on<br />

the process.<br />

(f) This section is cumulative <strong>of</strong> other laws relating to<br />

service <strong>of</strong> process.<br />

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1708, ch. 389, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.<br />

Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 300, Sec. 38, eff. Aug. 30, 1993.

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