KRS 341.305: Service of notice or process and action against nonresident employing unit

or resident employing unit removing from state.

Any employing unit which is not a resident of this state and which exercises the privilege

of having one or more individuals perform service for it within this state, and any resident

employing unit which exercises that privilege and thereafter removes from this state, shall

be deemed thereby to appoint the Secretary of State as its agent and attorney for the

acceptance of process in any civil action, as provided in KRS 341.300 and 341.310. In

instituting such an action against any such employing unit the secretary shall cause such

process or notice to be filed with the Secretary of State and such service shall be

sufficient service upon such employing unit, and shall be of the same force and validity as

if served upon it personally within this state; provided, that, the secretary shall forthwith

send notice of the service of such process or notice, together with a copy thereof, by

certified mail, return receipt requested, to such employing unit at its last known address

and such return receipt, the secretary's affidavit of compliance with the provisions of this

section, and a copy of the notice of service shall be appended to the ori ginal of the

process filed in the court in which such action is pending.