California Financial Code Section 1802.8

(a) Before any applicant is issued a license the applicant shall file with the commissioner, in the form required by the commissioner, an irrevocable consent appointing the commissioner to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the person, that person`s successor, executor, or administrator, which arises under this chapter or any regulation or order issued under this chapter after the consent has been filed. (b) Service of process after consents have been filed pursuant to this section shall have the same force and validity as if personally served on the person. (c) Service may be made by leaving a copy of the process at any office of the commissioner, but the service is not effective unless (1) the party making the service, who may be the commissioner, immediately sends notice of the service and a copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the party served at his or her last address on file with the commissioner, and (2) an affidavit of compliance with this section by the party making service is filed in the case on or before the return date, if any, or any further time that the court, in the case of a judicial proceeding, or the administrative agency, in the case of an administrative proceeding, allows. (d) Any consent filed pursuant to this section shall be deemed to have appointed the commissioner and any successor from time to time in office.