Section 16506 Of Article 1. General Provisions From California Financial Code >> Division 5. >> Chapter 12. >> Article 1.
16506
. (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.