§ 25-511.02.Service on dissolved corporation.

Article 5: Commencement of Actions and Service of Process · Last amended 2011 · Last verified July 22, 2026

In one sentenceThis section explains how to serve a dissolved corporation, first through any appointed receiver, and if there is none, through a person who was an officer, director, managing agent, or registered agent at dissolution, or an officer or director named in its last annual report.

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A dissolved corporation may be served by personal, residence, certified mail, or

designated delivery service upon any appointed receiver. If there is no receiver, a dissolved corporation may be served by personal, residence, certified mail, or designated delivery service upon any person who at the time of dissolution was an officer, director, managing agent, or registered agent, or upon any officer or director designated in the last annual report filed with the Secretary of State.

Source

Laws 1983, LB 447, § 28; Laws 2011, LB669, § 13.

Plain-English Summary

A corporation that has dissolved does not disappear from the reach of a lawsuit, but the ordinary corporate-service rule in section 25-509.01 assumes an active company with current officers. Section 25-511.02 adapts that framework for a dissolved corporation. The first option is service on any appointed receiver, using personal, residence, certified mail, or designated delivery service.

If there is no receiver, the section falls back on the people who ran the corporation at the moment it dissolved: anyone who was an officer, director, managing agent, or registered agent at the time of dissolution, or any officer or director named in the corporation’s last annual report filed with the Secretary of State. That last-annual-report option matters when the corporation’s dissolution predates the lawsuit by enough time that current contact information for its former leadership is hard to track down — the report gives a documented, public-record name to work from.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you serve a corporation that has dissolved?

First, through any appointed receiver. If there is no receiver, through a person who was an officer, director, managing agent, or registered agent at the time of dissolution, or an officer or director named in the corporation’s last annual report.

What if the dissolved corporation never had a receiver appointed?

The section shifts to service on former officers, directors, managing agents, registered agents at dissolution, or those named in the last annual report filed with the Secretary of State.

Where do I find who was an officer or director in a dissolved corporation’s last annual report?

That report is filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State and is a public record identifying the corporation’s officers and directors at that time.

What methods of service apply to a dissolved corporation?

The same personal, residence, certified mail, or designated delivery service methods used for an active corporation apply to whichever person is being served under this section.

Does this section apply to a corporation that merely stopped doing business but never formally dissolved?

This section addresses corporations that have gone through dissolution; a company that ceased operations without dissolving would ordinarily still be served under the standard active-corporation rule in section 25-509.01.

Source & verification. Section text and the amendment-history citation are reproduced verbatim from the Nebraska Legislature, Revisor of Statutes, enacted by the Nebraska Legislature. Last verified July 22, 2026. · Official source

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