8.01-312 - Effect of service on statutory agent; duties of such agent.
§ 8.01-312. Effect of service on statutory agent; duties of such agent.
A. Service of process on the statutory agent shall have the same legal forceand validity as if served within the Commonwealth personally upon the personfor whom it is intended.
Provided that such agent shall forthwith send by registered or certifiedmail, with return receipt requested, a copy of the process to the personnamed therein and for whom the statutory agent is receiving the process.
Provided further that the statutory agent shall file an affidavit ofcompliance with this section with the papers in the action; this filing shallbe made in the office of the clerk of the court in which the action ispending.
B. Unless otherwise provided by § 8.01-313 and subject to the provisions of §8.01-316, the address for the mailing of the process required by this sectionshall be that as provided by the party seeking service.
(Code 1950, § 8-67.2; 1954, c. 333; 1970, c. 680; 1972, c. 408; 1976, c. 26;1977, c. 617.)