CODE OF VIRGINIA HOW PROCESS SERVED ON DOMESTIC CORPORATIONS GENERALLY (§ 8.01-299) Except as prescribed in § 8.01-300 as to municipal and quasi-governmental corporations, and subject to § 8.01-286.1, process may be served on a corporation created by the laws of the Commonwealth as follows: 1. By personal service on any officer, director, or registered agent of such corporation; 2. By substituted service on stock corporations in accordance with § 13.1-637 and on nonstock corporations in accordance with § 13.1-836; or 3. If the registered address of the corporation is a single-family residential dwelling, by substituted service on the registered agent of the corporation in the manner of subdivision 2 of § 8.01-296. HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-59; 1954, c. 23; 1956, c. 432; 1958, c. 13; 1976, c. 395; 1977, c. 617; 1991, c. 672; 2005, c. 866; 2016, c. 270.