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SECTION 305
Registered agent for service of process
Not-for-Profit Corporation (NPC) CHAPTER 35, ARTICLE 3
§ 305. Registered agent for service of process.

(a) Every domestic corporation or authorized foreign corporation may
designate a registered agent in this state upon whom process against
such corporation may be served. The agent shall be a natural person who
is a resident of or has a business address in this state or a domestic
corporation or foreign corporation of any kind formed, or authorized to
do business in this state, under this chapter or under any other statute
of this state.

(b) Any such designation of a registered agent may be made, revoked or
changed as provided in this chapter.

(c) A registered agent may resign as such agent. A certificate,
entitled "Certificate of resignation of registered agent of ...........
(name of designating corporation) under section 305 of the
Not-for-Profit Corporation Law", shall be signed by him and delivered to
the department of state. It shall set forth:

(1) That he resigns as registered agent for the designating
corporation.

(2) The date the certificate of incorporation or the application for
authority of the designating corporation was filed by the department of
state.

(3) That he has sent a copy of the certificate of resignation by
registered mail to the designating corporation at the post-office
address on file in the department of state specified for the mailing of
process or if such address is the address of the registered agent, then
to the office of the designating corporation in the jurisdiction of its
formation or incorporation.

(d) The designation of a registered agent shall terminate thirty days
after the filing by the department of state of a certificate of
resignation or a certificate containing a revocation or change of the
designation, whichever is filed earlier. A certificate designating a new
registered agent may be delivered to the department of state by the
corporation within the thirty days or thereafter.