Cal. Insurance Code § 850

If the applicant is a foreign corporation or association, it shall file with its application: (a) A copy of its articles of incorporation or association. (b) A certificate of the proper officer of the jurisdiction in which it is organized, executed not more than thirty days before the filing of such application, showing that the applicant is authorized to transact business in that jurisdiction. (c) In such form as the commissioner prescribes, its written instrument irrevocably appointing the commissioner and his successor in office its true and lawful attorney upon whom all process in any action or proceeding against it, arising out of or founded upon the fraud of such applicant in the sale of securities within this State, or in any action upon any bond provided by this article, can be served. Such service shall have the same effect as if the applicant was a domestic corporation or association lawfully served with process in this State.