Chap. 146.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 166, Code of 1873, in rela-
tion to service of process against‘or notice to a Corporation.

Approved February 17, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven, chapter one hundred and sixty-six, of Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act ap-
proved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section seven, chapter
one hundred and sixty-six, of Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, in relation to service of process against or notice
to a corporation, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows: .

§ 7. Process against or notice to a corporation, may be served
as follows: If the case be against a city or town, on its mayor,
recorder, or any alderman, councilman, or trustee of such city
or town; if against a bank, on its president, cashier, treasurer,
or any one of its directors; if against a railroad company, on
its president, cashier, treasurer, general superintendent, or any
one of its directors; if against some other corporation, created
by the laws of this state, on its president, rector or other chief
officer, cashier, treasurer, secretary, or any of its directors,
trustees, or visitors; if against a corporation, created by some
other state or country, or in any case, if there be not in the
county or corporation wherein the case is commenced, any
other person on whom there can be service as aforesaid on any
agent of the corporation, against which the case is (unless it be
a case against a bank), or on any person declared by the laws
of this state to be an agent of such corporation; and if there
be no such agent in the county or corporation wherein the case
is commenced, publication of a copy of the process or notice
once a week, for four successive weeks, in a newspaper printed
in this state, shall be a sufficient service of such process or
notice. Service on any person under this section shall be by
delivering to him a copy of the process or notice in the county
or corporation wherein he resides or is acting as agent, or the
principal office of the corporation is located; and the return shall
show this, and state on whom and when the service was, other-
wise it shall not be valid. If the process or notice be served
on an agent, or be served in any other county or corporation
than wherein the suit or other proceeding is brought or had, it
shall be served at least ten days before the return day of such
process or notice. The term ‘‘agent,’’ as employed in this
section, shall be construed to include a telegraph operator, de-
pot or station agent of a railroad company, and toll-gatherer
of a canal or turnpike company; and where any corporation is
operated by a trustee or trustees for its own benefit, or for the
benefit of its creditors, or the holders of its bonds, it shall be
sufficient, in any suit against such corporation, its trustee or
trustees, to serve the process or notice on such trustees, or any
one of them, or on any agent of such trustee or trustees, though
said trustee or trustees be non-residents of the state. Publica-
tion, if a copy of the process or notice as an order of publication
is made under this section, shall likewise be equivalent to per-
sonal service on such trustees; or where any corporation is ope-
rated by a lessee or lessees, service as provided above shall be
sufficient. Service on any person, under this section, shall be
in the county or corporation in which he resides, or in which
his place of business is, or in which the principal officer of the
company is located, and the return shall show this, and state
on whom and when the service was, otherwise the service shall
not be valid.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.