KRS 273.327: Venue and process.

(1) Every action for the involuntary dissolution of a corporation shall be commenced by

the attorney general in the circuit court of the county in which the registered office

of the corporation is situated.

(2) Summons shall issue and be served as in other civil action. If process is returned not

found, the attorney general shall have the defendant constructively served as

provided in CR 4.05, and shall cause publication to be made in some newspaper

published in the county where the registered office of the co rporation is situated,

containing a notice of the pendency of such action, the title of the court, the title of

the action, and the date on or after which default may be entered. The attorney

general shall cause a copy of such notice to be mailed, by certi fied mail, return

receipt requested, to the corporation at its registered office within ten (10) days after

the first publication thereof. The certificate of the attorney general of the mailing of

such notice shall be prima facie evidence thereof. Such not ice shall be published at

least once each week for two (2) successive weeks, and the first publication thereof

may begin at any time after the summons has been returned.