Section 121-1505. Service of process

(a)  Service  of  process  on the
  secretary  of  state  as  agent  of  a  registered   limited   liability
  partnership under this article shall be made by 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.
    (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.