(2001)

Dear John W. Anderson,

You have asked for our opinion concerning the service of a summary ejectment summons by means of first class mail and posting of the property — commonly referred to as "mailing and nailing" — when the rental property to be repossessed is an apartment in a multi-unit building. More particularly, you ask whether the deputy sheriff serving the summons must post the summons on the individual apartment to be repossessed.

In our opinion, the statutes governing service of process in summary ejectment actions require that the process server affix an attested copy of the summons…