CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCESS AGAINST UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS OR ORDERS, OR UNINCORPORATED COMMON
CARRIERS; PRINCIPAL OFFICE OUTSIDE VIRGINIA AND BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS IN
VIRGINIA (§ 8.01-306)

Subject to § 8.01-286.1, if an unincorporated (i) association, (ii) order, or
(iii) common carrier has its principal office outside Virginia and transacts
business or affairs in the Commonwealth, process may be served on any officer,
trustee, director, staff member, or agent of such association, order, or carrier
in the city or county in which he may be found or on the clerk of the State
Corporation Commission, who shall be deemed by virtue of such transaction of
business or affairs in the Commonwealth to have been appointed statutory agent
of such association, order, or carrier upon whom may be made service of process
in accordance with § 12.1-19.1. Service, when duly made, shall constitute
sufficient foundation for a personal judgment against such association, order or
carrier. If service may not be had as aforesaid, then on affidavit of that fact
an order of publication may be awarded as provided by §§ 8.01-316 and
8.01-317.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-66.1; 1962, c. 250; 1977, c. 617; 1991, c. 672; 2005,
c. 866.