Art. 1266.Limited Liability Company

Louisiana serves limited liability companies through a structure nearly identical to the one it uses for corporations. The first option under Article 1266 is personal service on any one of the LLC's designated agents for service of process.

If the LLC has no designated agent, the agent is no longer available because of death, resignation, or removal, or the process server certifies an inability, after due diligence, to serve the agent, the rule opens the same kind of backup paths Article 1261 provides for corporations. If management of the LLC is vested in one or more managers, the server may personally serve any manager; if management isn't vested in managers, the server may personally serve any member instead. The server may also personally serve any employee of suitable age and discretion at a place where the LLC regularly conducts business, or proceed under Louisiana's long-arm statute if the LLC is subject to it.

Article 1266 originally provided a fourth backup method as well, but that provision was later repealed. If service can't be completed through any of the current methods, Article 1267 supplies the same kind of final fallback available for corporations: service on the secretary of state.