17-6202.   Resident agent required; qualifications;business office requirements; terms construed.(a) Every corporation shall have and maintain in this state a resident agent,which agent may be either: (1) The corporation itself; (2) an individualresident in this state; (3) a domestic corporation, a domestic limitedpartnership, a domestic limited liability company or a domestic business trust;or (4) a foreign corporation, a foreign limited partnership, aforeignlimited liability company or a foreign business trust authorized totransact business in this state. Theresident agent shall have a business office identical with the registeredoffice which is generally open during normal business hours to accept serviceof process and otherwise perform the functions of a resident agent.

      (b)   Unless the context otherwise requires, whenever the term "resident agent"or "registered agent" or "resident agent in charge of a corporation's principaloffice or place of business in this state," or other term of like import whichrefers to a corporation's agent required by statute to be located in thisstate, is or has been used in a corporation's articles of incorporation, or inany other document, or in any statute, it shall be deemed to mean and refer tothe corporation's resident agent required by this section; and it shall not benecessary for any corporation to amend its articles of incorporation or anyother document to comply with this section.

      History:   L. 1972, ch. 52, § 18;L. 2004, ch. 143, § 5;L. 2007, ch. 81, § 5; July 1.