Section 51. Each foreign limited liability company doing business in the commonwealth shall appoint a resident agent as its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful processes in any action or proceeding against such foreign limited liability company in the commonwealth may be served. The resident agent shall be either an individual who is a resident of and has a business address in the commonwealth, a corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth, or a corporation organized under the laws of any other state of the United States, which has complied with of section 15.03 of subdivision A of Part 15 of chapter 156D and which has an office in the commonwealth. Such appointment shall become effective upon the filing in the office of the state secretary of a certificate, signed under the penalties of perjury by an authorized person, setting forth the name and business address of the resident agent. Such foreign limited liability company may revoke any such appointment or appoint a new resident agent, which revocation shall become effective upon filing with the state secretary of a certificate setting forth the fact of such revocation or the appointment of a new resident agent and, in the case of the appointment of a new resident agent, the name and business address of such agent. In the event of any change in the business address of the resident agent of any foreign limited liability company, a certificate setting forth the new business address of such resident agent, signed under the penalties of perjury by such resident agent, shall be filed with the state secretary within five days of such change. Any resident agent of a foreign limited liability company may resign as such agent by filing with the state secretary a certificate signed under the penalties of perjury by such agent setting forth the fact of his resignation and the effective date thereof, which shall be not less than thirty days after the date of the filing of such certificate, and stating that a copy of such certificate has been mailed, postage prepaid, to the foreign limited liability company at the address of the principal office of the foreign limited liability company in the commonwealth currently on file with the state secretary or, if that office is also the office of the resident agent, at the address most recently furnished to such agent by the foreign limited liability company as the address to which copies of all process served upon him as such agent are to be forwarded. Compliance with this section shall be deemed compliance with the provisions of section five of chapter two hundred and twenty-seven.