N.Y. Rural Electric Cooperative Law § 41: Foreign corporations

§ 41. Foreign corporations. Any foreign non-profit or cooperative

corporation supplying or authorized to supply electric energy and owning

or operating electric transmission or distribution lines in an adjacent

state may construct or acquire extensions of such lines in this state

within an area no point of which is more than ten miles from the

boundary line of this state and operate such extensions, provided that

any such corporation shall, before constructing or operating such

extensions, by an instrument executed and acknowledged on its behalf by

its president or vice-president, under its seal attested by its

secretary, and filed in the department of state, designate the secretary

of state its agent to accept service of process on its behalf.

Thereafter, such corporation shall have all the rights, powers,

privileges and immunities of a cooperative, and shall be subject to the

provisions of this chapter. In the event any process shall be served

upon the secretary of state, he shall forthwith forward the same by

registered mail to such corporation at the address thereof specified in

the aforesaid instrument.