Note: This version of section effective until 1-1-2018. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 1-1-2018.

1. (b) If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation or other executive officer, as that term is used in Trial Rule 4.6(a)(1), at the corporation's principal office. Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of:

   1. (1) the date the corporation receives the mail;
   2. (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; or
   3. (3) five (5) days after its deposit in the United States mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
2. (c) This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a corporation.

Sec. 4. (a) A corporation's registered agent is the corporation's agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the corporation.

As added by P.L.149-1986, SEC.8.