2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8.01-301 and 19.2-267 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 8.01-301.1 , relating to civil and criminal actions; service of subpoena for certain electronic records.
[H 1500]
Approved
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 8.01-301 and 19.2-267 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 8.01-301.1 as follows:
§ 8.01-301 . How process served on foreign stock or nonstock corporations and foreign limited liability companies generally.
Subject to § 8.01-286.1 , service of process on a foreign stock or nonstock corporation or a foreign limited liability company may be effected in the following manner:
1. By personal service on any officer or director or the registered agent of a foreign stock or nonstock corporation that is authorized to do business in the Commonwealth, by personal service on any agent of any such foreign corporation transacting business in the Commonwealth without such authorization, wherever any such officer, director, or agents be found within the Commonwealth, and by personal service on the registered agent of a foreign limited liability company that is registered to do business in the Commonwealth;