Rule 4.2. Process: Who May be Served

Process: Who May be Served.

Service of process pursuant to Civ.R. 4 through Civ.R. 4.6, except service by publication as

provided in Civ.R. 4.4(A), shall be made as follows:

(A)

Upon an individual, other than a person under sixteen years of age or an

incompetent person, by serving the individual;

(B)

Upon a person under sixteen years of age by serving either the person’s guardian

or any one of the following persons with whom the person to be served lives or

resides: a parent or the individual having the care of the person; or by serving the

person if the person neither has a guardian nor lives or resides with a parent or a

person having his or her care;

(C)

Upon an incompetent person by serving either the incompetent's guardian or the

person designated in division (E) of this rule, but if no guardian has been appointed

and the incompetent is not under confinement or commitment, by serving the

incompetent;

(D)

Upon an individual confined to a penal institution of this state or of a subdivision

of this state by serving the individual, except that when the individual to be served

is a person under sixteen years of age, the provisions of division (B) of this rule

shall be applicable;

(E)

Upon an incompetent person who is confined in any institution for the mentally ill

or mentally deficient or committed by order of court to the custody of some other

institution or person by serving the superintendent or similar official of the

institution to which the incompetent is confined or committed or the person to

whose custody the incompetent is committed;

(F)

Upon a corporation either domestic or foreign: by serving the agent authorized by

appointment or by law to receive service of process; or by serving the corporation

at any of its usual places of business by a method authorized under Civ.R.

4.1(A)(1); or by serving an officer or a managing or general agent of the

corporation;

or the person to

whose custody the incompetent is committed;

(F)

Upon a corporation either domestic or foreign: by serving the agent authorized by

appointment or by law to receive service of process; or by serving the corporation

at any of its usual places of business by a method authorized under Civ.R.

4.1(A)(1); or by serving an officer or a managing or general agent of the

corporation;

(G)

Upon a limited liability company by serving the agent authorized by appointment

or by law to receive service of process; or by serving the limited liability company

at any of its usual places of business by a method authorized under Civ.R.

4.1(A)(1); or by serving a manager or member;

(H)

Upon a partnership, a limited partnership, or a limited partnership association by

serving the entity at any of its usual places of business by a method authorized

under Civ.R. 4.1(A)(1) or by serving a partner, limited partner, manager, or

member;

(I)

Upon an unincorporated association by serving it in its entity name at any of its

usual places of business by a method authorized under Civ.R. 4.1(A)(1); or by

serving an officer of the unincorporated association;

(J)

Upon a professional association by serving the association in its corporate name at

the place where the corporate offices are maintained by a method authorized under

Civ.R. 4.1(A)(1); or by serving a shareholder;

(K)

Upon this state or any one of its departments, offices and institutions as defined in

division (C) of section 121.01 of the Revised Code, by serving the officer

responsible for the administration of the department, office or institution or by

serving the attorney general of this state;

(L)

Upon a county or upon any of its offices, agencies, districts, departments,

institutions or administrative units, by serving the officer responsible for the

administration of the office, agency, district, department, institution or unit or by

serving the prosecuting attorney of the county;

ration of the department, office or institution or by

serving the attorney general of this state;

(L)

Upon a county or upon any of its offices, agencies, districts, departments,

institutions or administrative units, by serving the officer responsible for the

administration of the office, agency, district, department, institution or unit or by

serving the prosecuting attorney of the county;

(M)

Upon a township by serving one or more of the township trustees or the township

clerk or by serving the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the township is

located, unless the township is organized under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code,

in which case service may be made upon the township law director;

(N)

Upon a municipal corporation or upon any of its offices, departments, agencies,

authorities, institutions or administrative units by serving the officer responsible for

the administration of the office, department, agency, authority, institution or unit or

by serving the city solicitor or comparable legal officer;

(O)

Upon any governmental entity not mentioned above by serving the person, officer,

group or body responsible for the administration of that entity or by serving the

appropriate legal officer, if any, representing the entity. Service upon any person

who is a member of the "group" or "body" responsible for the administration of the

entity shall be sufficient.

Service of process pursuant to Civ.R. 4 through 4.6, except service by publication

as provided in Civ.R. 4.4(A), may be made upon an address confidentiality

“program participant,” as defined by R.C. 111.41(G), by serving the Secretary of

State.

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