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

Sec. 5. (a) The registered agent of an eligible entity is the eligible entity's agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the eligible entity.

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

   1. (1) the date the eligible entity receives the mail;
   2. (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the eligible entity; or
   3. (3) five (5) days after 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 an eligible entity.

As added by P.L.186-2015, SEC.5.