(a)
(1)No foreign (other nation) credit union shall be issued a license to maintain an office unless it shall have first filed with the commissioner, in the form that the commissioner may by regulation or order require, an appointment irrevocably appointing the commissioner and the commissioner’s successor from time to time in office to be the foreign (other nation) credit union’s attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the foreign (other
nation) credit union or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state after the appointment has been filed, with the same force and validity as if served personally on the foreign (other nation) credit union or its successor, as the case may be.
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(a)
(1)
No foreign (other nation) credit union shall be issued a license to maintain an office unless it shall have first filed with the commissioner, in the form that the commissioner may by regulation or order require, an appointment irrevocably appointing the commissioner and the commissioner’s successor from time to time in office to be the foreign (other nation) credit union’s attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the foreign (other
nation) credit union or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state after the appointment has been filed, with the same force and validity as if served personally on the foreign (other nation) credit union or its successor, as the case may be.
(2)
Any foreign (other nation) credit union that maintains an office in this state and that has not filed with the commissioner an appointment pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be deemed by the maintenance of that office to have appointed the commissioner as its attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the foreign (other nation) credit union or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state with the same force and validity as if served personally on the foreign (other nation) credit union or its successor, as the case may be.
(b)
Service may be made on a foreign (other nation) credit union that has appointed or is deemed to have appointed the commissioner as its attorney for service of process by leaving a copy of the process at any office of the commissioner. However, the service is not effective unless (1) the party making the service, who may be the commissioner, forthwith sends notice of the service and a copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the foreign (other nation) credit union served at its last address on file with the commissioner at any of its offices in this state or at its head office, and (2) an affidavit of compliance with this subdivision by the party making service is filed in the case on or before the return date, if any, or within any further time that the court, in the case of a judicial proceeding, or the administrative agency, in the case of an administrative proceeding, allows.