2023 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 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.
(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.