§ 121-1505. Service of process. (a) Service of process on the
secretary of state as agent of a registered limited liability
partnership or New York registered foreign limited liability partnership
under this article shall be made in the manner provided by paragraph one
or two of this subdivision. Either option of service authorized pursuant
to this subdivision shall be available at no extra cost to the consumer.
(1) Personally delivering to and leaving with the secretary of state or
a deputy, or with any person authorized by the secretary of state to
receive such service, at the office of the department of state in the
city of Albany, duplicate copies of such process together with the
statutory fee, which fee shall be a taxable disbursement. Service of
process on such registered limited liability partnership shall be
complete when the secretary of state is so served. The secretary of
state shall promptly send one of such copies by certified mail, return
receipt requested, to such registered limited liability partnership, at
the post office address on file in the department of state specified for
such purpose. (2) Electronically submitting a copy of the process to the
department of state together with the statutory fee, which fee shall be
a taxable disbursement, through an electronic system operated by the
department of state, provided the registered limited liability
partnership or New York registered foreign limited liability partnership
has an email address on file in the department of state to which the
secretary of state shall email a notice of the fact that process against
such registered limited liability partnership or New York registered
foreign limited liability partnership served has been electronically
served on the secretary of state. Service of process on such registered
limited liability partnership or New York registered foreign limited
liability partnership shall be complete when the secretary of state has
reviewed and accepted service of such process. The secretary of state
shall promptly send a notice of the fact that process against such
registered limited liability partnership or New York registered foreign
limited liability partnership has been served electronically upon him or
her, to such registered limited liability partnership or New York
registered foreign limited liability partnership at the email address on
file in the department of state, specified for the purpose and shall
make a copy of the process available to such registered limited
liability partnership or New York registered foreign limited liability
partnership.

(b) As used in this article, process shall mean judicial process and
all orders, demands, notices or other papers required or permitted by
law to be personally served on a registered limited liability
partnership, for the purpose of acquiring jurisdiction of such
registered limited liability partnership in any action or proceeding,
civil or criminal, whether judicial, administrative, arbitrative or
otherwise, in this state or in the federal courts sitting in or for this
state.

(c) Nothing in this section shall affect the right to serve process in
any other manner permitted by law.