Tennessee Code Title 48. Corporations and Associations § 48-249-112

(a) AGENT FOR SERVICE OF PROCESS. A domestic or foreign LLC's registered agent is the agent for the domestic or foreign LLC for service of process, notice or demand, required or permitted by law to be served on the domestic or foreign LLC.

(b) SECRETARY OF STATE IS DEFAULT AGENT. Whenever a domestic or foreign LLC authorized to transact business in this state fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, whenever the registered agent of a domestic or foreign LLC cannot be found with reasonable diligence, whenever a foreign LLC transacts business or conducts affairs in this state without first obtaining a certificate of authority from the secretary of state, or whenever the certificate of authority of a foreign LLC has been cancelled or revoked, then the secretary of state shall be an agent of such LLC upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served.

(c) SPECIAL AGENT FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Whenever a domestic or foreign LLC authorized to transact business in this state is an employer, within the meaning of the Workers' Compensation Law, compiled in title 50, chapter 6, and the domestic or foreign LLC is, for the purpose of the Workers' Compensation Law, self-insured or a part of a self-insurance pool as provided in title 50, chapter 6, part 4, the domestic or foreign LLC shall, for workers' compensation actions only, be required to appoint the commissioner of commerce and insurance and such commissioner's chief deputy, or their successors, as its true and lawful attorneys upon either of whom all lawful process in any workers' compensation action or legal proceeding against it may be served, as is required of insurance companies by § 56-2-103.

(d) NOT EXCLUSIVE MEANS OF SERVICE. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of service on a domestic or foreign LLC.