499.75 - SERVICE ON ASSOCIATION.

        499.75  SERVICE ON ASSOCIATION.         1.  An association's registered agent is the association's agent      for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by      law to be served on the association.         2.  If an association has no registered agent, or the agent cannot      with reasonable diligence be served, the association may be served by      registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to      the secretary of the association at its principal office.  Service is      perfected under this subsection at the earliest of any of the      following:         a.  The date the association receives the mail.         b.  The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf      of the association.         c.  Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as      evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly      addressed.         3.  This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily      the required means, of serving an association.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         93 Acts, ch 126, §22         Referred to in § 499.77, 499.78, 499.78A