California Code, Financial Code - FIN § 1718

(a)(1) No uninsured foreign (other state) bank may be issued a license to maintain a facility unless it has first filed with the commissioner, in the form that the commissioner may by regulation or order require, an appointment irrevocably appointing the commissioner and the commissioner's successor from time to time in office as the bank's attorney to receive service of process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the bank or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state of the facility after the appointment has been filed, with the same force and validity as if served personally on the bank or its successors, as the case may be.

(2) Any uninsured foreign (other state) bank that maintains a facility and that has not filed with the commissioner an appointment pursuant to paragraph (1) is deemed by the maintenance of the facility to have appointed the commissioner and the commissioner's successor from time to time in office as its attorney to receive service of any lawful process in a noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the bank or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state of the facility with the same force and validity as if served personally on the bank or its successors, as the case may be.