2023 New York Laws › PTR - Partnership › Article 8-B - Registered Limited Liability Partnerships › 121-1505 - Service of Process.

§  121-1505.  Service  of  process.  (a)  Service  of  process  on the
secretary  of  state  as  agent  of  a  registered   limited   liability
partnership or New York registered foreign limited liability partnership
under this article shall be made in the manner provided by paragraph one
or two of this subdivision. Either option of service authorized pursuant
to this subdivision shall be available at no extra cost to the consumer.
(1)  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  registered  limited  liability  partnership  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 registered limited liability partnership, at
the post office address on file in the department of state specified for
such purpose. (2) 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   registered   limited   liability
partnership or New York registered foreign limited liability partnership
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 against
such registered limited liability partnership  or  New  York  registered
foreign  limited  liability  partnership  served has been electronically
served on the secretary of state. Service of process on such  registered
limited  liability  partnership  or  New York registered foreign limited
liability partnership 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  against  such
registered  limited liability partnership or New York registered foreign
limited liability partnership has been served electronically upon him or
her, to such  registered  limited  liability  partnership  or  New  York
registered foreign limited liability partnership 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  registered  limited
liability  partnership  or New York registered foreign limited liability
partnership.
(b) As used in this article, process shall mean judicial  process  and
all  orders,  demands,  notices or other papers required or permitted by
law  to  be  personally  served  on  a  registered   limited   liability
partnership,   for   the  purpose  of  acquiring  jurisdiction  of  such
registered limited liability partnership in any  action  or  proceeding,
civil  or  criminal,  whether  judicial,  administrative, arbitrative or
otherwise, in this state or in the federal courts sitting in or for this
state.
(c) Nothing in this section shall affect the right to serve process in
any other manner permitted by law.