Corp. Code, § 1505 · Chapter 15. Records and Reports
Corp. Code, § 1505
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Any domestic or foreign corporation, before it may be designated as the agent for the purpose of service of process of any entity pursuant to any law which refers to this section, shall file a certificate executed in the name of the corporation by an officer thereof stating all of the following:
(1) The complete street address of its office or offices in this state, wherein any entity designating it as such agent may be served with process.
(2) The name of each person employed by it at each such office to whom it authorizes the delivery of a copy of any such process.
(3) Its consent that delivery thereof to any such person at the office where the person is employed shall constitute delivery of any such copy to it, as such agent.
(b) Any corporation which has filed the certificate provided for in subdivision (a) may file any number of supplemental certificates containing all the statements provided for in subdivision (a), which, upon the filing thereof, shall supersede the statements contained in the original or in any supplemental certificate previously filed.
(c) No domestic or foreign corporation may file a certificate pursuant to this section unless it is currently authorized to engage in business in this state and is in good standing on the records of the Secretary of State.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 494, Sec. 8. (SB 1532) Effective January 1, 2013.
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Cited by 24 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Corp. Code, § 1505. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Corporations Code
- Corp. Code, § 1155Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 1502Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 1701Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 2105Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 2110Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 2117Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 3304Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 6210Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 8210Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 9925Printed as Section 1505 of the Corporations Code
- Corp. Code, § 12570Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 12701Printed as Section 1505, 6213, 8213, or 12573
- Corp. Code, § 15901.14Printed as Section 1505 of the Corporations Code
- Corp. Code, § 15901.16Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 15911.06Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 16309Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 16310Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 16906Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 16962Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 17701.13Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 17701.16Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 17710.06Printed as Section 1505
- Corp. Code, § 18200Printed as Section 1505
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