1. I. Service of process in any suit, action, or proceeding or service of any notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served on a foreign partnership may be made on such partnership by service thereof on a registered agent of such partnership. Service of any such process or of any such notice or demand upon a registered agent as registered agent may be made:

   1. (a) By leaving an attested copy of such process, notice, or demand in the registered office of the registered agent during regular business hours; or

   2. (b) A foreign partnership may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the foreign partnership at its principal office shown in its application for a certificate of authority, if the foreign partnership:

      1. (1) Has no registered agent or its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served;
      2. (2) Has withdrawn from transacting business in this state under RSA 305-A:5; or
      3. (3) Has had its certificate of authority suspended under RSA 305-A:2-b.

2. II. Service is perfected under subparagraph I(b) at the earliest of:

   1. (a) The date the foreign partnership receives the mail; or
   2. (b) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the foreign partnership; or
   3. (c) Five days after its deposit in the United States Mail, as evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
3. III. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a foreign partnership.

Source. 1965, 187:1. 2004, 248:59, eff. July 1, 2004.