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

1. (2) If a limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership does not have a registered agent or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the partnership may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the partnership at the partnership's principal office. Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of the following:
2. (a) The date the partnership receives the mail.
3. (b) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the partnership.
4. (c) Five (5) days after the deposit of the service in the United States mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
5. (3) This section does not prescribe the only means or necessarily the required means of serving a limited liability partnership or foreign limited liability partnership.

Sec. 52. (1) The registered agent of a limited liability partnership and foreign limited liability partnership is the partnership's registered agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the partnership.

As added by P.L.230-1995, SEC.17.