1054 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 504

State or in the City of Baltimore, such corporation may be
sued in the City of Baltimore or, if the plaintiff resides in a
county of this Stale, such corporation may be sued in such
county, or in any local action where the subject matter thereof
lies.

(c) Whenever any corporation of this State or any foreign
corporation has become surety on any bond required by law
to be filed with any court of this State or with any register
of wills, public board or official, suit against such corporation
on such bond may be brought in the city or county where such
bond is filed.

105. (a) Except as in this Section otherwise provided,
process in every action against a corporation of this State or
against a foreign corporation shall be served (subject to the
special provisions for foreign insurance companies and for
fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or associations made in
Article 48A) upon a resident agent thereof or upon a person
authorized in the manner provided in Section 106 of this
Article to accept service of such process.

(b) If any corporation of this State or any foreign corpora-
tion has not a resident agent, or has one or more resident
agents and an unsuccessful attempt has been made to serve
process upon each of its resident agents, process may be
served (subject to the special provisions for foreign insurance
companies and for fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or
associations made in Article 48A) upon the president, man-
ager, secretary or treasurer of such corporation, or upon any
director, vice-president, assistant secretary or assistant treas-
urer thereof, and if none of the above resides in this State,
such process may be served upon any agent or other person
expressly or impliedly authorized to accept such service.

(c) If any corporation of this State or any foreign corpo-
ration has not a resident agent, or has one or more resident
agents and two unsuccessful attempts have been made on
different business days to serve process upon a resident
agent thereof, such corporation may be made a defendant in an
attachment in the same manner as a non-resident individual.

(d) If any corporation of this State, or any foreign corpo-
ration required by any statute of this State to have a resident
agent, has not a resident agent, or has one or more resident
agents and two unsuccessful attempts have been made on
different business days to serve process upon each of its
resident agents, such corporation shall be conclusively pre-
sumed to have designated the State Tax Commission as its
true and lawful attorney authorized to accept on its behalf
service of process in the action in which such process issued,
and in such case such process may be served upon the State