NY Bus Corp L § 306 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BSC - Business Corporation Article 3 - Corporate Name and Service of Process 306 - Service of Process.

§ 306. Service of process.  (a) Service of process on a registered agent may be made in the manner provided by law for the service of a summons, as if the registered agent was a defendant.  (b)  * (1)  Service of process on the secretary of state as agent of a domestic or authorized foreign corporation shall be made  by  personally delivering  to  and  leaving with the secretary of state or a deputy, or with any person authorized by the secretary of  state  to  receive  such service, at the office of the department of state in the city of Albany, duplicate  copies of such process together with the statutory fee, which fee shall  be  a  taxable  disbursement.  Service  of  process  on  such corporation  shall be complete when the secretary of state is so served. The secretary of state  shall  promptly  send  one  of  such  copies  by certified  mail,  return  receipt requested, to such corporation, at the post office address, on file in the department of state,  specified  for the purpose. If a domestic or authorized foreign corporation has no such address on file in the department of state, the secretary of state shall so mail such copy, in the case of a domestic corporation, in care of any director  named  in  its  certificate of incorporation at the director's address stated  therein  or,  in  the  case  of  an  authorized  foreign corporation,  to  such  corporation  at the address of its office within this state on file in the department.   * NB Effective until January 1, 2023   * (1) Service of process on the secretary  of  state  as  agent  of  a domestic  or  authorized foreign corporation shall be made in the manner provided by clause (i) or (ii) of this subparagraph.  Either  option  of service  authorized  pursuant to this subparagraph shall be available at no extra cost to the consumer. (i) Personally delivering to and  leaving with  the  secretary of state or a deputy, or with any person authorized by the secretary of state to receive such service, at the office of  the department  of  state  in  the  city of Albany, duplicate copies of such process together with the statutory fee, which fee shall  be  a  taxable disbursement.  Service  of process on such corporation shall be complete when the secretary of state is so served. The secretary of  state  shall promptly  send  one  of  such  copies  by certified mail, return receipt requested, to such corporation, at the post office address, on  file  in the  department  of  state,  specified for the purpose. If a domestic or authorized foreign corporation has  no  such  address  on  file  in  the department  of state, the secretary of state shall so mail such copy, in the case of a domestic corporation, in care of any director named in its certificate of incorporation at the director's  address  stated  therein or,   in  the  case  of  an  authorized  foreign  corporation,  to  such corporation at the address of its office within this state  on  file  in the  department. (ii) Electronically submitting a copy of the process to the department of state together with the statutory fee, which fee shall be a taxable disbursement, through an electronic system operated by  the department  of  state,  provided  the  domestic  or  authorized  foreign corporation has an email address on file in the department of  state  to which  the  secretary  of  state  shall  email a notice of the fact that process has been  served  electronically  on  the  secretary  of  state. Service  of  process  on  such  corporation  shall  be complete when the secretary of state has reviewed and accepted service  of  such  process. The  secretary  of  state  shall promptly send a notice of the fact that process has been served to such corporation at the email address on file in the department of state, specified for the purpose and shall  make  a copy of the process available to such corporation.   * NB Effective January 1, 2023  (2)  An  additional  service  of  the  summons may be made pursuant to paragraph four of subdivision (f) of section thirty-two hundred  fifteen of the civil practice law and rules.  (c)  If  an  action  or special proceeding is instituted in a court of limited jurisdiction, service of process  may  be  made  in  the  manner provided  in  this  section  if  the  office  of the domestic or foreign corporation is within the territorial jurisdiction of the court.  (d) Nothing in this section shall affect the right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.