HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 1055

Tax Commission as the true and lawful attorney of such
corporation.

(e) An unsuccessful attempt to serve process upon a resident
agent shall be deemed to have been made if an attempt to
serve such process has been made during usual business hours
at its principal office, in the case of a corporation of this
State, or at the place certified to the State Tax Commission
as the address of a resident agent, in the case of a foreign
corporation, and such principal office or place, as the case
may be, shall be closed or there shall be no resident agent of
such corporation at such principal office or place and no one
thereat authorized in the manner provided in Section 106 of
this Article to accept service of such process.

(f) The return of the officer making an unsuccessful attempt
to serve process as aforesaid shall set forth the date and hour
when such service of process was attempted and other facts
meeting the conditions hereinabove provided.

(g) In all cases mentioned in this Section the officer serving
process shall leave a copy thereof with the person upon whom
it is served, and if such process is not served upon a resident
agent or upon a person authorized in the manner provided
in Section 106 of this Article to accept service of such process,
a copy thereof shall also be left at the principal office, or if
the principal office is closed or if the location of a principal
office has not been certified to the State Tax Commission,
then at the address of a resident agent of such corporation
if such corporation has a resident agent.

(h) Process issued out of any court or by any justice of the
peace of this State against any corporation of this State or
any foreign corporation may be directed to the sheriff, con-
stable or other proper officer of any county or of the City of
Baltimore, returnable to the clerk of the court out of which,
or to the justice of the peace by which, the same was issued.

(i) Nothing in this Section shall prevent service of process
in the manner permitted by the motor vehicle laws of this
State in an action against a foreign corporation arising out of
an accident or collision in which such foreign corporation was
involved if such foreign corporation has no resident agent.

107. (a) In cases in which any corporation of this State
or any foreign corporation is presumed, as provided in Sec-
tion 105 of this Article, to have designated the State Tax
Commission as its true and lawful attorney authorized to
accept on its behalf service of process, service of such process
may be made by leaving two copies of the process with a fee of
five dollars in the office of the State Tax Commission with any
member of the Commission or with its Secretary. Such
service shall be sufficient service upon such corporation and