(A) No license to carry out any business, occupation or activity as an itinerant merchant, transient merchant or itinerant vendor within the city shall be issued unless and until the applicant therefor shall file, with the City Clerk, an instrument nominating and appointing the City Clerk, or any person performing the official duties of the position, as the true and lawful agent of the applicant for the service of process, with full power and authority to receive and to acknowledge service of notice or process in respect to any action instituted in any court of the state to which the applicant may be a party arising out of any business transacted by the applicant pursuant to the license; provided, however, that, nothing herein shall be construed to apply to any itinerant merchant, transient merchant or itinerant vendor otherwise required, pursuant to the laws of the state, to appoint any official of the state as an agent of the applicant for the purpose of receiving service of process as a prerequisite for doing business within the state.
(B) The City Clerk shall keep a record of all processes served upon the City Clerk in accordance with this subchapter as the agent for the applicant, identifying in the record:
(1) Each process so served;
(2) The court which issued the same;
(3) The title and nature of the action; and
(4) The time and date of service.
(C) Immediately upon being served with process as provided herein, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to send to the applicant, at the last known address of the applicant, by registered United States mail, a copy of the process.
(Prior Code, § 10-105)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-134