(a) Any corporation organized on a nonprofit or a cooperative basis for one (1) or more of the purposes outlined in § 48-69-106(a) and operating in a state adjacent to this state shall be permitted to transact business in this state without complying with any statute of this state pertaining to the qualification of foreign corporations for the transaction of business.(b) A foreign corporation transacting business in this state, as a prerequisite to its transaction of business in this state, shall, by an instrument executed and acknowledged in its behalf by its president or vice president and attested to by its secretary, designate to the secretary of state its agent to accept service of process in its behalf. In the event any such process is served upon the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall forward the process by registered mail to the corporation at the address specified in the instrument.(c) A foreign corporation transacting business in this state may sue and be sued in the courts of this state to the same extent that a cooperative under this chapter may sue or be sued in such courts.(d) A foreign corporation transacting business in this state may secure its sued in the courts of this state to the same extent that a cooperative under this chapter may sue or be sued in such courts.(d) A foreign corporation transacting business in this state may secure its notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness by mortgage, pledge, deed of trust or other encumbrance of any or all of its then-owned or after-acquired real or personal property, assets or franchise located or to be located in this state, and also upon its revenues and income. Acts 2009, ch. 475, § 1.
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