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Home » US Law » 2022 New York Laws » Consolidated Laws » LLC - Limited Liability Company Law » Article 3 - Service of Process » 303 – Service of Process on Limited Liability Companies.
§ 303. Service of process on limited liability companies.  (a) Service
of  process  on  the  secretary  of state as agent of a domestic limited
liability company or authorized foreign limited liability company  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  his
or  her  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 limited liability company 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 limited liability company at the post office address on file in the
department  of  state  specified  for  that  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  domestic  or authorized foreign limited liability company
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 limited liability company 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 limited liability company has been served electronically on
him or her to such limited liability company 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 limited liability company.

(b) Nothing in this section shall limit or affect the right to serve any process required or permitted by law to be served upon a limited liability company in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law or applicable rules of procedure.