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General Laws | Public Notice Resource Center
Most states have a general public notice statute that determines which newspapers may be used to satisfy public notice requirements. In many cases, a state’s general public notice law may also establish advertising rates, type size and other details regulating public notice in the state. Links to each state’s general public notice law are provided below.
Alabama: General Provisions and Notices (Title 6, Chapter 8, Article 4, Division 1 and 2)
Alaska: No General Eligibility Statute
Arizona: Printing and Publication (Title 39, Chapter 2, Articles 1-2, § 39-201 to 39-205 and § 39-221)
Arkansas: Legal Notices and Advertisements (Title 16, Subtitle 1, Chapter 3, § 16-3-101 to § 16-3-108)
California: Publications and Official Advertising and Publication of Notice in Public Notice Districts (Title 1, Division 7, Chapter 1, Article 1, § 6000-6078 and § 6080-6085.670)
Colorado: Legal Notices – Publication (Title 24, Article 70, Part 1, § 24-70-101 to § 24-70-109)
Connecticut: Legal Notices (Title 1, Chapter 1, § 1-2)
Delaware: No General Statute
Florida: Legal and Official Advertising (Title VI, Chapter 50, § 50.011 to § 50.0711)
Georgia: Judicial Sales, Advertisement (Title 9, Chapter 13, Art. 7, Pt. 1, § 9-13-140 to § 9-13-145)
Hawaii: No General Eligibility Statute
Idaho: Public Printing and Official Notices (Title 60, Chapter 1, § 60-105 to § 60-113)
Illinois: Notice by Publication Act (715 ILCS § 5/0.01 to 5/11)
Indiana: Publication of Notices (IC Title 5, Article 3, Chapters 1-4)
Iowa: Publication and Posting of Notices (Title 15, Subtitle 3, Chapter 618, § 616.1 to 618.18)
64-101: Newspapers in which legal publications may be made. (a) The governing body of each city of the first class shall designate by resolution a newspaper to be the official city newspaper. Once designated, the newspaper shall be the official city newspaper until such time as the governing body designates a different newspaper.
(1) Is published at least weekly 50 times a year and has been so published for at least one year prior to the publication of any official city publication;
(2) is entered at the post office as periodical class mail matter;
(3) has general paid circulation on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis in the county in which the city is located and is not a trade, religious or fraternal publication; and
(4) is published in the county in which the city publishing the official publication is located. If there is no newspaper published in the county, the newspaper shall be published in Kansas and shall have general paid circulation in the county.
(b) The board of county commissioners of each county shall designate by resolution a newspaper to be the official county newspaper. Once designated the newspaper shall be the official county newspaper until such time as the board designates a different newspaper. The newspaper selected for the official publications of a county shall be a newspaper which:
(1) Is published at least weekly 50 times each year and has been so published for at least one year prior to the publication of any official county publication;
(2) is entered at the post office in the county of publication as periodical class mail matter, which county shall be located in Kansas;
(3) has general paid circulation on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis in the county and is not a trade, religious or fraternal publication; and
(4) is published in the county publishing the official publication. If there is no newspaper published in the county, the newspaper shall be printed in Kansas and have general paid circulation in the county.
(c) Whenever the board of education of a school district is required to publish a legal notice, advertisement or other publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the school district, such newspaper shall be one which:
(1) Is published at least weekly 50 times each year and has been so published for at least one year prior to the publication of any school district publication;
(2) is entered at the post office in the school district of publication as periodical class mail matter;
(3) has general paid circulation on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis in the school district and is not a trade, religious or fraternal publication; and
(4) is published in the school district publishing the official publication. If there is no newspaper published in the school district, the newspaper shall be published in Kansas and shall have general paid circulation in the school district.
(d) Nothing contained in this section shall invalidate the publication in a newspaper which has resumed publication after having suspended publication all or part of the time that the United States has been engaged in war with any foreign nation and six months next following the cessation of hostilities if such newspaper resumes publication in good faith under the same ownership as it had when it suspended publication. Nothing in this section shall invalidate the publication in a newspaper which has simply changed its name or moved its place of publication from one part of the county to another part, or suspended publication on account of fire, flood, strikes, shortages of materials or other unavoidable accidents for not to exceed 10 weeks within the year last preceding the first publication of the legal notice, advertisement or publication. All legal publications heretofore made which otherwise would be valid, that have been made in a newspaper which, on account of flood, fire, strikes, shortages of materials or other unavoidable accident, has suspended publication for a period of not exceeding 10 weeks, are hereby legalized.
64-102: Same; publication on certain day of week. All legal publications and notices of whatever kind or character that may by law be required to be published a certain number of weeks or days shall be and they are hereby declared to be legally published when they have been published once each week in a newspaper which is published at least once each week, such publication to be made on any day of the week upon which the paper is published: Provided, That successive publications of the same notice shall be made on the same day of the week except that when there is no issue of the newspaper published on such day that it may be made on the preceding or following day: And provided further, That any newspaper publishing such notices or publications, as hereinbefore provided, must be otherwise qualified under existing law to publish such notices and publications.
64-103: Publication of acts of legislature, official documents, and constitutional amendments. (a) All acts of the legislature which shall provide for their taking effect on publication in any newspaper or in the Kansas register shall be published in the Kansas register, which shall be deemed the official publication. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, all proclamations, orders, notices and advertisements authorized by any state officer shall be printed and published in the Kansas register. Payment for such publication shall be made by the state at the rates prescribed by law. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to: (1) Resolutions making propositions to amend the constitution; or (2) proclamations issued by the governor which are not required by law to be issued by the governor. All proclamations issued by the governor which are not published in the Kansas register shall be published on the official Kansas internet website.
(b) For the purpose of informing the electors of the propositions to be voted on at the election thereon, the secretary of state shall cause resolutions making propositions to amend the constitution to be published in one newspaper in each county of the state where a newspaper is published, once each week for three consecutive weeks immediately preceding the election at which the proposition is to be submitted.
64-104: Validation of prior publications in newspapers having patent insides or outsides. All legal publications heretofore made in newspapers having one side of the paper printed away from the office of publication, and known as patent insides or patent outsides, shall have the same force and effect as if published in newspapers wholly printed and published in such county where such publication was made.
64-105: Publications in newspapers having patent insides or outsides, when. All publications and notices required by law to be published in newspapers in this state, if published in newspapers having one side of the paper printed away from the office of publication, known as patent outsides or insides, shall have the same force and effect as though the same were published in newspapers printed wholly and published in the county where such publication shall be made: Provided, One side of the paper is printed in said county where said notices are required to be published.
64-106: Lost county records; certified transcript from state historical society files as evidence. Whenever the official records of any county in this state are lost, stolen, or destroyed, it shall be lawful for any board of county commissioners of such county to order the secretary of the state historical society to transcribe from the newspapers, records, documents and other files of the state historical society any publication notice authorized or which may have been authorized to be published and which was published in any newspaper or any other publication in the state which may be on file in the office of the state historical society. Such transcript shall be made and certified by the secretary of the state historical society, under the seal of such society, and shall be admissible in evidence in or before any court, board, or other body in the state of Kansas, to the same extent and with like effect as the original would or might be if offered in evidence.
64-107: Same; payment of expense by county, when. No charge shall be made for the making of such transcript so long as the secretary can make the same with the help of the office and employees of the society who are paid a salary by the state; and when extra help is necessarily employed to do the work, the county ordering the transcripts shall pay only the actual expense incurred, on duly certified and sworn vouchers bearing the approval of the secretary of the society.
64-108: Official court paper in counties of 45,000 or over. In any county of this state, having a population of 45,000 or over, the judge of the district court of said county may designate a court paper to be the official court paper for the publication of court calendars, assignments of cases and motions, daily findings and other proceedings as the judge of the district court and other courts of record may direct. Nothing herein shall in anywise affect the jurisdiction over or the regularity of proceedings, trials or judgments except as otherwise provided by law.
64-109: Official court paper in counties of 45,000 or over; what may be published. When any court paper shall have been designated as an official court paper, as provided in K.S.A. 64-108, any legal notice, advertisement or publication now required by law to be published in any newspaper in any action or proceedings pending before the district court may be published in such court paper so designated by the direction and order of the court in which said action is pending and such publication shall be deemed a compliance with K.S.A. 64-101.
424.110 Definitions
As used in KRS 424.110 to 424.370:
(1) “Publication area” means the city, county, district, or other local area for which an advertisement is required by law to be made. An advertisement shall be deemed to be for a particular city, county, district, or other local area if it concerns an official activity of the city, county, district, or other area or of any governing body, board, commission, officer, agency, or court thereof, or if the subject of the advertisement concerns particularly the people of the city, county, district, or other area;
(2) “Advertisement” means any matter required by law to be published; and
(3) “Zoned edition” means a newspaper edition published at least once a week, distributed in a specific geographic region of the newspaper’s circulation area, and containing reporting and advertising of interest to subscribers in that geographic region.
424.120 Qualifications of newspapers
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, if an advertisement for a publication area is required by law to be published in a newspaper, the publication shall be made in a newspaper that meets the following requirements:
(a) It shall be published in the publication area. A newspaper shall be deemed to be published in the area if it maintains its principal office in the area for the purpose of gathering news and soliciting advertisements and other general business of newspaper publications, and has a periodicals class mailing permit issued for that office. A newspaper published outside of Kentucky shall not be eligible to carry advertisements for any county or publication area within the county, other than for the city in which its main office is located, if there is a newspaper published in the county that has a substantial general circulation throughout the county and that otherwise meets the requirements of this section; and
(b) It shall be of regular issue and have a bona fide circulation in the publication area. A newspaper shall be deemed to be of regular issue if it is published at least once a week, for at least fifty (50) weeks during the calendar year as prescribed by its mailing permit, and has been so published in the area for the immediately preceding two (2) year period. A newspaper meeting all the criteria to be of regular issue, except publication in the area for the immediately preceding two (2) year period, shall be deemed to be of regular issue if it is the only paper in the publication area and has a paid circulation equal to at least ten percent (10%) of the population of the publication area. A newspaper shall be deemed to be of bona fide circulation in the publication area if it is circulated generally in the area, and maintains a definite price or consideration not less than fifty percent (50%) of its published price, and is paid for by not less than fifty percent (50%) of those to whom distribution is made; and
(c) It shall bear a title or name, consist of not less than four (4) pages without a cover, and be of a type to which the general public resorts for passing events of a political, religious, commercial, and social nature, and for current happenings, announcements, miscellaneous reading matter, advertisements, and other notices. The news content shall be at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total column space in more than one-half (1/2) of its issues during any twelve (12) month period.
(d) If, in a publication area there is more than one (1) newspaper which meets the above requirements, the newspaper having the largest bona fide paid circulation as shown by the average number of paid copies of each issue as shown in its published statement of ownership as filed on October 1 for the publication area shall be the newspaper where advertisements required by law to be published shall be carried.
(e) For the purposes of KRS Chapter 424, publishing shall be considered as the total recurring processes of producing the newspaper, embracing all of the included contents of reading matter, illustrations, and advertising enumerated in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this subsection. A newspaper shall not be excluded from qualifying for the purposes of legal publications as provided in this chapter if its printing or reproduction processes take place outside the publication area.
(2) (a) If, in the case of a publication area smaller than the county in which it is located, there is no newspaper published in the area, the publication shall be made in a newspaper published in the county that is qualified under this section to publish advertisements for the county. If the qualified newspaper publishes a zoned edition which is distributed to regular subscribers within the publication area, any advertisement required by law to be published in the publication area may be published in the zoned edition distributed in that area.
(b) If, in any county there is no newspaper meeting the requirements of this section for publishing advertisements for that county, any advertisements required to be published for the county or for any publication area within the county shall be published in a newspaper of the largest bona fide circulation in that county published in and qualified to publish advertisements for an adjoining county in Kentucky. This subsection is intended to supersede any statute that provides or contemplates that newspaper publication may be dispensed with if there is no newspaper printed or published or of general circulation in the particular publication area.
(3) If a publication area consists of a district, other than a city, which extends into more than one (1) county, the part of the district in each county shall be considered to be a separate publication area for the purposes of this section, and an advertisement for each separate publication area shall be published in a newspaper qualified under this section to publish advertisements for the area.
424.130 Times and periods of publication; posting of delinquent tax lists
(a) When an advertisement is of a completed act, such as an ordinance, resolution, regulation, order, rule, report, statement, or certificate and the purpose of the publication is not to inform the public or the members of any class of persons that they may or shall do an act or exercise a right within a designated period or upon or by a designated date, the advertisement shall be published one (1) time only and within thirty (30) days after completion of the act. However, a failure to comply with this paragraph shall not subject a person to any of the penalties provided by KRS 424.990 unless such failure continues for a period of ten (10) days after notice to comply has been given him by registered letter.
(b) When an advertisement is for the purpose of informing the public or the members of any class of persons that on or before a certain day they may or shall file a petition or exceptions or a remonstrance or protest or objection, or resist the granting of an application or petition, or present or file a claim, or submit a bid, the advertisement shall be published at least once, but may be published two (2) or more times, provided that one (1) publication occurs not less than seven (7) days nor more than twenty-one (21) days before the occurrence of the act or event.
(c) When an advertisement is for the purpose of informing the public and the advertisement is a notice of delinquent taxes, or notice of the sale of tax claims, the advertisement shall be published either:
1. Once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks; or
2. One (1) time, preceded by a one-half (1/2) page notice of advertisement the preceding week. The one-half (1/2) page advertisement shall include notice that a list of uncollectible delinquent taxes is also available for public inspection in accordance with KRS 424.330 during normal business hours at the business address of the city or county and on an identified Internet Web site. The advertisement shall include the business address of the city or county and the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the Internet Web site where the document can be viewed. The Internet Web site shall be affiliated with the city or county and contain other information about the city or county government. The delinquent tax list shall be posted on the Internet Web site for a minimum of thirty (30) days and shall be updated weekly.
The provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to require the advertisement of notice of delinquent state taxes which are collected by the state.
(d) Any advertisement not coming within the scope of paragraph (a), (b), or (c) of this subsection, such as one for the purpose of informing the public or the members of any class of persons of the holding of an election, or of a public hearing, or of an examination, or of an opportunity for inspection, or of the due date of a tax or special assessment, shall be published at least once but may be published two (2) or more times, provided that one (1) publication occurs not less than seven (7) days nor more than twenty-one (21) days before the occurrence of the act or event, or in the case of an inspection period, the inspection period commences.
(e) If the particular statute requiring that an advertisement be published provides that the day upon or by which, or the period within which, an act may or shall be done or a right exercised, or an event may or shall take place, is to be determined by computing time for the day of publication of an advertisement, the advertisement shall be published at least once, promptly, in accordance with the statute, and the computation of time shall be from the day of initial publication.
(2) This section is not intended to supersede or affect any statute providing for notice of the fact that an adversary action in court has been commenced.
424.140 Contents or form of advertisements
(1) Any advertisement of a hearing, meeting or examination shall state the time, place and purpose of the same.
(2) Any advertisement of an election shall state the time and purpose of the election, and if the election is upon a public question the advertisement shall state the substance of the question.
(3) Any advertisement for bids or of a sale shall describe what is to be bid for or sold, the time and place of the sale or for the receipt of bids, and any special terms of the sale.
(4) Where any statute provides that, within a specified period of time after action by any governmental agency, unit or body, members of the public or anyone interested in or affected by such action shall or may act, and it is provided by statute that notice of such governmental action be published, the advertisement shall state the time and place when and where action may be taken.
424.150 Person responsible for publishing
When any statute providing for newspaper publication of an advertisement does not designate the person responsible for causing the publication to be made, the responsible person shall be:
(1) Where the advertisement is of the filing of a petition or application, the person by whom the same is filed;
(2) Where the advertisement is of an activity or action of:
(a) An individual public officer, the officer himself;
(b) A city, the city clerk if there be one; if not, the mayor;
(c) A county, the county clerk;
(d) A district, or a board, commission or agency of a city, county or district, the chief administrative or executive officer or agent thereof;
(e) A court, the clerk thereof;
(f) A state department or agency, the head thereof.
(1) For all newspaper advertising required by law, the publisher is entitled to receive payment for each insertion at a rate per column inch. The advertisement shall be set in no larger than seven (7) point type on solid leading. The rate shall not exceed the lowest classified rate paid by advertisers. The terms and conditions of any volume discounts given to commercial customers shall be extended to public agencies of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Newspapers shall give all local public agencies a written notice of at least thirty (30) days of an advertising rate increase.
424.170 Proof of publication
(1) The affidavit of the publisher or proprietor of a newspaper, stating that an advertisement has been published in his newspaper and the times it was published, attached to a copy of the advertisement, constitutes prima facie evidence that the publication was made as stated in the affidavit.
(2) The affidavit of the person responsible for publishing as described in KRS 424.150, stating that an advertisement has been delivered by first class mail to each residence within the publication area, attached to a copy of the advertisement, constitutes prima facie evidence that the publication was made as stated in the affidavit and that the expenditure for the cost of postage, all supplies, and reproduction of the advertisement did not exceed the cost of newspaper publication of the advertisement.
424.180 Advertisements of state agencies
Any advertisement which a state officer, department or agency is required by law to have published shall, if intended to give statewide notice, be published in such newspaper or newspapers, to be designated by the Finance and Administration Cabinet, as will provide reasonable statewide coverage, unless the Finance and Administration Cabinet approves an alternative and cost-effective method of delivery. If the advertisement particularly affects a local area, it shall be published, for each county in the area, in a newspaper qualified under KRS 424.120 to publish advertisements for such county, unless the Finance and Administration Cabinet approves an alternative and cost-effective method of delivery. The latter publication shall be in addition to the former, if the advertisement affects the state at large as well as the local area.
424.190 Alternatives to newspaper publication abolished; exception; information required to be sent to Department for Local Government
(1) If a statute gives discretion to a public officer or agency or governmental body as to the method of making an advertisement required by the statute, and if a statute provides that an advertisement may be made either by posting or by newspaper publication, the advertisement shall be made by newspaper publication in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, except as provided in subsection (2) of this section.
(2) Any city may, when the cost of the newspaper publication exceeds the cost of postage, supplies, and reproduction for the alternative method of publication, in lieu of newspaper publication of advertisement, substitute delivery of a copy of the advertisement by first class mail to each residence within the publication area. Any city electing to use the alternative publication methods authorized by this section shall forward three (3) copies of its audit report or one (1) copy of its financial statement, whichever is applicable, to the Department for Local Government in accordance with KRS 91A.040 and 424.220.
424.215 Advertising by public agencies; rates charged
Notwithstanding KRS 65.070, 83A.060, 91A.040, 160.463, 424.180, 424. 190, 424.220, 424.230, 424.250, 424.260, 424.270, 424.330, any public agency required to advertise or publish notices or documents in a newspaper shall be charged the lowest rate generally charged for advertising by the newspaper.
Public printing and advertisements
43§140. Definitions
(1) “Bona fide paying subscribers” shall mean persons who have subscribed at a subscription rate which is not nominal, whether by mail subscriptions, purchases through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sellers, or any combination thereof, but shall not include free circulation, sales at token or nominal subscription price, and sales in bulk for purposes other than for resale for individual subscribers.
(2) “General paid circulation” shall not include publications when one-half or more of all copies circulated are provided free of charge to the ultimate recipients, or are paid for at nominal rates by the ultimate recipients.
(3) “Newspaper” shall mean a publication that during each year of the five-year period prior to the first publication of any legal or official notice therein:
(a) Has been published at regular intervals of not less than weekly.
(b) Has been originated and published for the dissemination of current news and intelligence of varied, broad, and general public interest, including regular news coverage of local public meetings and events, and is not devoted to the interests of, or published for the entertainment or instruction of, or has a circulation restricted to, any particular sect, denomination, labor or fraternal organization, or other special group or class of citizens.
(c) Has not been published primarily for advertising purposes and has not contained more than seventy-five percent advertising in more than one-half of its issues, excluding separate advertising supplements inserted into but separately identifiable from any regular issue or issues.
(d) Has maintained a general paid circulation to bona fide paying subscribers within the area the publication is required.
(4) “Nominal rate(s)” shall mean a price which is so small or slight that it is not considered real or substantial in comparison with what might reasonably be expected.
(5) “Office” shall mean the newspaper’s principal public business office and need not be the place at which the newspaper’s printing presses are physically located. A newspaper shall have only one principal public business office; however, any newspaper with a principal business office in a parish adjoining Jefferson Parish which within one year prior to June 1, 1986, has actually published official proceedings of any municipal corporation, parish council, police jury, or school board in Jefferson Parish shall be deemed to be published in an office physically located in both the parish where the newspaper maintains its principal business office and Jefferson Parish.
§141. Official journal to be selected by police juries, city and parish councils, municipal corporations, and school boards
A. The police juries, city and parish councils, municipal corporations, and school boards in all the parishes, the parish of Orleans excepted, at their first meeting in June of each year, shall select a newspaper as official journal for their respective parishes, towns, or cities for a term of one year.
B. In any parish which is divided by the Mississippi River and has a population of not less than one hundred thousand the governing body shall have the authority to select two official journals for their respective parishes, one of which shall be located on one bank of the river and the other which shall be located on the opposite bank thereof and no act heretofore performed shall be considered invalid because of any such parish having heretofore designated two such official journals.
§142. Qualifications of newspaper
A. The newspaper:
(1) Shall have been published in an office physically located in the parish in which the body is located for a period of five years preceding the selection;
(2) Shall not have missed during that period as many as three consecutive issues unless caused by fire, flood, strike, or natural disaster;
(3) Shall have maintained a general paid circulation in the parish in which the body is located for five consecutive years prior to the selection; and
(4) Shall have been entered in a U.S. post office in that parish under a periodical permit in that parish for a period of five consecutive years prior to the selection.
B. The provisions of this Section relating to the five-year requirement shall not contravene any contract existing between any governing body and a newspaper on and prior to May 11, 1970; nor shall the five-year requirement herein be applied in assessing the qualifications of a newspaper which was in existence on May 11, 1970; nor shall any provision of this Chapter prohibit a publication from becoming an official journal in Jefferson Parish when the publication has actually published official proceedings within one year prior to June 1, 1986 of any municipal corporation, parish council, police jury, or school board within Jefferson Parish.
§143. Newspaper selected to be known as official journal; duties
The newspaper selected shall be known as the official journal of the parish, town, city or school board, and it shall publish all minutes, ordinances, resolutions, budgets and other official proceedings of the police jury, town or city councils, or the school board.
§144. Penalty for failure to have proceedings published
§145. Municipalities to select newspaper located within their boundaries
Municipal corporations shall select an official journal published in an office physically located within their municipal boundaries if a newspaper as defined in R.S. 43:140(3) is published therein. If no qualified newspaper is published within the municipal boundaries, a newspaper published in the parish of the municipal corporation which meets the requirements of a newspaper as defined in R.S. 43:140(3) shall be selected.
§146. Designation of other newspaper when no newspaper published in the parish
Where there is no newspaper published in an office physically located within the parish which meets the requirements of R.S. 43:140(3), a newspaper in an adjoining parish may be designated as the official journal.
§147. Compensation for printing
A. The police juries, municipal corporations, and school boards throughout the state, may, at their option, have their official proceedings published by contract, which contract may not provide for a cost in excess of the maximum amounts hereinafter provided for. Payment may be made monthly or quarterly at the option of the police jury, municipal corporation, or school board, unless otherwise provided in any contract entered into for the publication of official proceedings.
B. When the publication of proceedings is not done by contract providing for a lesser amount, the cost of advertisement in all parishes which do not contain a city of over one hundred thousand population shall not exceed the rate of six dollars per square of one hundred words or a fraction thereof. When the insertion contains material to be set in tabular form, the tabulated matter shall be computed on the basis of the number of words of straight matter which would occupy identical space.
C. The agate line shall be the unit of basis of measurement and charges for all official proceedings published in parishes containing a city of more than one hundred thousand, but less than three hundred thousand population. When the publication of the proceedings is not done by contract providing for a lesser amount, the printing shall be let at not over thirty-three cents per agate line of space occupied by each insertion.
D. The agate line shall be the unit or basis of measurement and charge for all official proceedings published in parishes containing a city of more than three hundred thousand population. When the publication of the proceedings is not done by contract providing for a lesser amount, the printing shall be let at not over thirty-seven cents per agate line of space occupied by each insertion.
§148. Bids may be required
In printing what is generally designated as job work, or commercial printing, bids may be required for any work exceeding twenty-five dollars, and the contract shall then be awarded to the lowest bidder.
§171. Selection of newspaper
A.(1) Levee, drainage, subdrainage, road, subroad, navigation, and sewerage districts, or other political subdivisions of the state and parishes, shall have the proceedings of their board and such financial statements required by and furnished to the legislative auditor published in a newspaper. The newspaper shall be selected at their first meeting in June of each year for a term of one year.
(a) Shall have been published in an office physically located in the political subdivision for at least five years prior to its selection;
(b) Shall not have missed during that period as many as three consecutive issues unless caused by fire, flood, strike, or natural disaster;
(c) Shall have maintained a general paid circulation in the district or political subdivision for five consecutive years prior to the selection; and
(d) Shall have been entered in a U.S. post office in that district or political subdivision under a periodical permit in that district or political subdivision for a period of five consecutive years prior to selection.
(3) If there is no newspaper published in the district or political subdivision, a newspaper published in the parish in which the board is domiciled for five consecutive years prior to selection shall be selected provided that it meets the other qualifications contained in this Section.
B. The provisions of this Section relating to the five-year requirement shall not contravene any contract existing between any governing body and a newspaper on and prior to May 11, 1970; nor shall the five-year requirement herein be applied in assessing the qualifications of a newspaper which was in existence on May 11, 1970; nor shall any provision of this Chapter prohibit a publication from becoming an official journal in Jefferson or Orleans Parish when the publication has actually published official proceedings within one year prior to June 1, 1986 of any municipal corporation, parish council, police jury, or school board within Jefferson or Orleans Parish.
C. If no newspaper is published in an office physically located in the district, political subdivision, or the parish of the domicile of the board which meets the requirements of this Chapter, a newspaper published in an office physically located in an adjoining parish may be selected, which has a general paid circulation within the limits of the district or political subdivision and which meets the requirements of a newspaper as defined in R.S. 43:140(3).
Chapter 5. Judicial Advertisements and Legal Notices
§200. Definitions
(1) “Bona fide paying subscribers” means persons who have subscribed at a subscription rate which is not nominal, whether by mail subscriptions, purchases through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sellers, or any combination thereof, but shall not include free circulation, sales at token or nominal subscription price, and sales in bulk for purposes other than for resale for individual subscribers.
(3) “Newspaper” means a publication that during each year of the five year period prior to the first publication of any legal or official notice therein:
(4) “Nominal rate(s)” means a price which is so small or slight that it is not considered real or substantial in comparison with what might reasonably be expected.
(5) “Office” means the newspaper’s principal public business office and need not be the place at which the newspaper’s printing presses are physically located. A newspaper shall have only one principal public business office; however, any newspaper with a principal business office in a parish adjoining Jefferson Parish which, within one year prior to June 1, 1986, has actually published official proceedings of any municipal corporation, police jury, or school board in Jefferson Parish shall be deemed to be published in an office physically located in both the parish where the newspaper maintains its principal business office and Jefferson Parish.
§201. Judicial advertisements and legal notices; parishes outside parish of Orleans
A. All parishes of the state, outside of the parish of Orleans, when advertisements or publication of notices are required to be made in relation to judicial proceedings, or in the sale of property under judicial process, or in any other legal proceedings of any kind, shall publish them in an English language newspaper published in an office physically located in the parish in which the proceedings are carried on. The newspaper shall be selected by the sheriff, constable, clerk, or other officer, as the case may be, who is charged with the conduct of the sale or proceeding. The official whose responsibility it is to select a newspaper shall make his selection in June of each year for a term of one year. If there is no newspaper published in the parish, all advertisements or notices shall be made by posting them at or near the front door of the courthouse, or the place used as such, and at two other public places in different parts of the parish.
B. The newspaper:
C. The provisions of this Section relating to the five-year requirement shall not contravene any contract existing between any governing body and a newspaper on and prior to May 11, 1970; nor shall the five-year requirement herein be applied in assessing the qualifications of a newspaper which was in existence on May 11, 1970; nor shall any provision of this Chapter prohibit a publication being selected to publish judicial advertisements and legal notices in Jefferson Parish when the publication has actually published official proceedings within one year prior to June 1, 1986 of any municipal corporation, parish council, police jury, or school board within Jefferson Parish.
D. In Jefferson Parish, no provision of this Chapter shall prohibit a weekly publication being selected to publish judicial advertisements and legal notices when the publication has maintained a public business office for at least five consecutive months in the parish prior to June 1, 2006, and maintained a total circulation of at least twenty-five thousand for at least three consecutive years immediately prior to being selected.
E. In Jefferson Parish, the total circulation of every publication or newspaper shall be proved not less than annually by an experienced publication auditing firm prior to the selection of the publication or newspaper under this Section. The audit shall reflect the circulation of the publication or newspaper by parish, and shall be submitted as an attachment to any proposal by a publication or newspaper to publish judicial advertisements and legal notices in Jefferson Parish.
§202. Judicial advertisements in parish of Orleans
A. In the parish of Orleans, when advertisements are required to be made in relation to judicial proceedings, or in the sale of property under judicial process, or in any other legal proceedings of whatever kind, the advertisement shall be inserted in a daily newspaper published in an office physically located in the parish of Orleans and published in the English language, and which has been published as a daily paper for at least five years prior to the insertion of the advertisement or publication. The newspaper shall be selected by the sheriff, constable, clerk, or other officer, as the case may be, who is charged with the conduct of the sale. The responsible official selecting the newspaper to publish judicial advertisements and legal notices shall make his selection in June of each year for a term of one year. The newspaper selected shall meet the requirements of a newspaper as defined in R.S. 43:200(3) and shall have been entered in a U.S. post office in Orleans Parish under a periodical permit for a period of five years preceding its selection to publish legal advertisements and legal notices.
B. In the parish of Orleans, when advertisements are required to be made in relation to judicial proceedings, or in the sale of immovable property under judicial process, or in any other legal proceedings of whatever kind, additional judicial advertisements shall also be inserted in an auxiliary journal which satisfies the requirements of law pertaining to official journals of political subdivisions. The requirements of this Subsection shall not apply to the advertisement of movable property in any proceeding.
C. Should either of the notices as provided in Subsection A or B hereof, but not both, contain errors or omissions which make it legally deficient to accomplish the requirements of notice as provided by law then in such event the advertisement which is legally sufficient to accomplish notice as provided by law shall be sufficient to fulfill the notice requirements of law notwithstanding that only one such notice was in proper form and published correctly.
§203. Judicial advertisements, publication, exceptions
§204. Advertisements to be in English; duplication in French permitted
B. State and local officials and public institutions are reconfirmed in the traditional right to publish documents in the French language in addition to English.
§208. Advertisements of judicial sales may be advertised in morning or afternoon newspaper
All judicial sales by public auction or otherwise, required by law or by an order of court to be advertised in a newspaper, may be published either in a morning or afternoon newspaper, provided that when the advertisement is published in an afternoon newspaper, it shall be legal if the last advertisement is in an issue of the afternoon newspaper of the day last immediately preceding the day of sale.
§209. Publication in supplement to newspaper valid
In all cases when it is required by law that orders, notices, or advertisements of any kind, by any public officer, shall be inserted in public newspapers, the publications and insertions shall be as valid when made in supplements to newspapers as if they had been made in the newspaper sheets.
§601. Publication of legal notices and advertising
To be qualified as a medium for the publication of legal notices, legal advertising and other matter required by law to be published in a newspaper, a newspaper, unless otherwise ordered by the court in the proceedings, must be printed in the English language; must be entered as 2nd class postal matter in the United States mails; and must have general circulation in the vicinity where the notice is required to be published. Any legal notice, legal advertising or other matter required by law to be published in a newspaper must appear in all editions of that newspaper.
§602. Additional media for publication of notices
Notwithstanding section 601, all probate notices, notices of foreclosure, other legal notices, legal advertising and other matter required by law to be published in a newspaper that have been published in the Coastal Journal from the date of its first publication on November 3, 1966 and in the Somerset Gazette from the date of its first publication on April 16, 1990 to June 2, 1993, and that would have been valid but for the provision of section 601 that requires a newspaper carrying such notices to be entered as 2nd class postal matter, are declared to be valid.
§ 28. Publications
Definitions. – In a law, resolution, or court order or decree that refers to publishing a legal advertisement or legal notice, words such as “paper”, ” newspaper “, ” newspaper in general circulation”, or ” newspaper devoted to the dissemination of general news” mean, unless otherwise provided, a publication that:
• Has at least 4 pages;
• Habitually contains news items, reports of current events, editorial comments, advertising matter, and other miscellaneous information that is of public interest and is found generally in an ordinary newspaper ;
• At least once a week for 6 months or more before publication of the notice or advertisement, has been published and distributed, by sale, from an established place of business;
• Has general circulation throughout the community where the publication is published; and
• Is entitled to be entered as second-class matter in the United States mail
• Prince George’s County. – Subject to subsection (a) of this section and for purposes of the public general laws of the State, in Prince George’s County, ”newspaper in general circulation” includes:
• A newspaper designated by the County Council as a newspaper of record; and
• A newspaper that:
• Qualifies under subsection (a) of this section with respect to Prince George’s County; and
• Is published by a small business as defined in §14-201 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.
MA H 1566–addition pending following passage 2016
SECTION 2. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Electronic Publication of Legal Notices Act.”
SECTION 3. Whenever anyone is required by law to publish a legal notice in a “newspaper” or “newspaper of general circulation”, the newspaper shall, in addition to print publication, publish the required notice on the newspaper’s own website and on the statewide website established and maintained as a joint venture of the majority of Massachusetts newspapers as a repository for such notices. In publishing legal notices online, newspapers shall meet the following requirements:
The site must be accessible to the public over the Internet at all times, other than during maintenance or acts of God outside the operator’s control; and
The government entity’s official Internet web site shall prominently display a link to the newspapers’ statewide notice website; and c. The newspapers’ statewide notice site shall provide the full text of notices and shall be fully searchable by members of the public; and d. The newspapers’ statewide notice website shall be designed to comply with the accessibility standards of section 508 of the “Rehabilitation Act of 1973,” as amended (29 U.S.C. 19 s.794d); and e. Notices shall remain available on the newspapers’ statewide website at least until the last posting date required by law has expired or until the event described in a notice has taken place, whichever is later; and f. No person shall be charged a fee to access public notices on a newspaper’s website or on the newspapers’ statewide website or to view notices or advertisements or to perform searches of such websites, provided that newspapers may charge a fee for enhanced 2search and customized content delivery features; and g. No fee shall be charged to a state agency or political subdivision for publishing a notice or advertisement on the web site in excess of the fee for publishing the notice or advertisement in the print newspaper; and h. The newspapers’ statewide website shall maintain an archive of notices and advertisements that no longer are displayed on the web site; and
Newspapers shall enable notices and advertisements, both those currently displayed and those archived, to be accessed by key word, by party name, by case number, by municipality, zip code and by other useful identifiers; and
Newspapers shall maintain adequate systemic security and backup features, and develop and maintain a contingency plan for coping with and recovering from power outages, systemic failures, and other unforeseeable difficulties; and
A newspaper of general circulation shall include on its web site a link to the newspapers’ statewide public notice web site. (updated 8.8.16)
If no newspaper so qualifies in the county where the court is situated , the term “newspaper” shall include any newspaper in an adjoining county which by this act is qualified to publish notice of actions commenced therein.
History: 1963, Act 247, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963
Subdivision 1. Qualification. No newspaper in this state shall be entitled to any compensation or fee for publishing any public notice unless it is qualified as a medium of official and legal publication. A newspaper that is not qualified must inform a public body that presents a public notice for publication that it is not qualified. To be qualified as a medium of official and legal publication, a newspaper shall:
(a) be printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 1,000 square inches, or 800 square inches if the local public corporation the newspaper purports to serve has a population of under 1,300 and the newspaper does not receive a public subsidy;
(b) if a daily, be distributed at least five days each week, or if not a daily, be distributed at least once each week, for 50 weeks each year. In any week in which a legal holiday is included, not more than four issues of a daily paper are necessary;
(d) be circulated in the local public corporation which it purports to serve, and either have at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, or 250 copies delivered to paying subscribers if the local public corporation it purports to serve has a population of under 1,300, or have at least 500 copies regularly distributed without charge to local residents, or 250 copies distributed without charge to local residents if the local public corporation it purports to serve has a population of under 1,300;
(e) have its known office of issue established in either the county in which lies, in whole or in part, the local public corporation which the newspaper purports to serve, or in an adjoining county;
(g) be made available at single or subscription prices to any person, corporation, partnership, or other unincorporated association requesting the newspaper and making the applicable payment, or be distributed without charge to local residents;
(j) after publication, submit to the secretary of state by December 31 a filing containing the newspaper’s name, address of its known office of issue, telephone number, and a statement that it has complied with all of the requirements of this section. The filing must be accompanied by a fee of $25. The secretary of state shall make available for public inspection a list of newspapers that have filed. Acceptance of a filing does not constitute a guarantee by the state that any other qualification has been met.
Subdivision 2. Earlier qualification. Newspapers which have been qualified, on May 20, 1965 , as mediums of official and legal publication shall remain qualified only if they meet the requirements of subdivision 1, except as follows:
(a) If on May 20, 1965, any newspaper is a qualified medium of official and legal publication but is printed in a foreign language, or in English and a foreign language, and otherwise qualifies as a medium of official and legal publication pursuant to the requirements of subdivision 1, it shall be a medium of official and legal publication so long as it otherwise qualifies pursuant to the requirements of subdivision 1.
(b) If on May 20, 1965 , any newspaper has been circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve to the extent of at least 240 but less than 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers and otherwise qualifies as a medium of official and legal publication pursuant to the requirements of subdivision 1, it shall be a medium of official and legal publication so long as at least 240 copies are regularly so circulated and delivered and it otherwise qualifies pursuant to the requirements of subdivision 1.
Subdivision 1. English language. All public notices shall be printed or otherwise disseminated in the English language.
Subdivision 2. Time of notice. Unless otherwise specified by a particular statute, or by order of a court, publication of a public notice shall be as follows:
(b) if the notice is intended to inform the public about a future event, the last publication shall occur not more than 14 days and not less than seven days before the event;
Subdivision 3. Type face. Except as otherwise directed by a particular statute requiring publication of a public notice, a public notice shall be printed in a type face no smaller than six point with a lower case alphabet of 90 point. Larger type faces may be used.
Subdivision 4. Title or caption. Every public notice shall include a title or caption in a body type no smaller than brevier or eight point referring to the content of the notice. Larger type faces may be used.
Subdivision 5. Local options. The governing body of a local public corporation may, to better inform the public, increase the frequency of publication of a public notice beyond the minimum required by a particular statute. It may use forms and styles for the notice as it deems appropriate, including the use of display advertisements and graphics. It may publish or disseminate the notice in other newspapers in addition to the newspaper required to be designated under section 331A.04 . Regardless of whether a particular statute specifies “legal notice,” “public notice,” “notice,” or uses similar terms, the governing body may use whatever form for the published notice that it deems appropriate in order to adequately inform the public, subject to the requirements of sections 331A.01 to 331A.11 . Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this subdivision shall require the governing body of a local public corporation to use the options described.
Subdivison 6. Conflict of laws. Nothing in this section shall invalidate or affect any statutory or charter provision imposing additional or special qualifications for publication of particular notices or proceedings.
Subdivision 7. Errors in publication. If through no fault of the local public corporation, an error occurs in the publication of a public notice, the error shall have no effect on the validity of the event, action, or proceeding to which the public notice relates.
(1) Whenever it is required by law that any summons, order, citation, advertisement or other legal notice shall be published in a newspaper in this state, it shall mean, in addition to any other requirements imposed by law, publication in some newspaper which
(a) Maintains a general circulation predominantly to bona fide paying subscribers within the political subdivision within which publication of such legal notice is required. The term “general circulation” means numerically substantial, geographically widespread, demographically diversified circulation to bona fide paying subscribers. In no event shall the term “general circulation” be interpreted to require that legal notices be published in a newspaper having the greatest circulation. The term “bona fide paying subscribers” means persons who have subscribed at a subscription rate which is not nominal, whether by mail subscriptions, purchases through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sellers, or any combination thereof, but shall not include free circulation, sales at a token or nominal subscription price and sales in bulk for purposes other than for resale for individual subscribers
(i) Mail subscribers
(iii) Street vendors and counter sellers
(e) Is issued from a known office of publication, which shall be the principal public business office of the newspaper and need no t b e the place at which the newspaper’s printing presses are physically located . A newspaper shall be deemed to be “published” at the place where its known office of publication is located .
(f) Is formed of printed sheets. However, the word “printed ” does not include reproduction by the stencil, mimeograph or hectograph process.
(2) “Newspaper,” as used in this section, shall not include a newspaper, publication, or periodical which is published, sponsored by, is directly supported financially by, or is published to further the interests of, or is directed to, or has a circulation restricted in whole or in part to any particular sect, denomination, labor or fraternal organization or other special group or class of citizens, or which primarily contains information of a specialized nature rather than information of varied, broad and general interest to the general public, or which is directed to any particular geographical portion of any given political subdivision within which publication of such legal notice is required, rather than to such political subdivision as a whole. No newspaper otherwise qualified under this section shall be disqualified from publishing legal notices for the sole reason that such newspaper does not have as great a circulation as some other newspaper publishing in the same political subdivision.
(4) A newspaper otherwise qualified under this section which is published in a municipality whose corporate limits encompass territory in more than one (1) county shall be qualified to publish legal notices for any county a portion of whose territory is included within the municipality, irrespective of the actual physical location within the municipality of the principal public business office of the newspaper.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 1858; Laws, 1936, ch. 313; Laws, 1948, ch. 427, eff 60 days after passage, approved April 14, 1948 ; Laws, 1976, ch. 479, § 1; Laws, 1984, ch. 400, eff from and after July 1, 1984
Public advertisements and orders of publication published only in certain newspapers.
493.050. All public advertisements and orders of publication required by law to be made and all legal publications affecting the title to real estate, shall be published in some daily, triweekly, semiweekly or weekly newspaper of general circulation in the county where located and which shall have been admitted to the post office as periodicals class matter in the city of publication; shall have been published regularly and consecutively for a period of three years, except that a newspaper of general circulation may be deemed to be the successor to a defunct newspaper of general circulation, and subject to all of the rights and privileges of said prior newspaper under this statute, if the successor newspaper shall begin publication no later than thirty consecutive days after the termination of publication of the prior newspaper; shall have a list of bona fide subscribers voluntarily engaged as such, who have paid or agreed to pay a stated price for a subscription for a definite period of time; provided, that when a public notice, required by law, to be published once a week for a given number of weeks, shall be published in a daily, triweekly, semiweekly or weekly newspaper, the notice shall appear once a week, on the same day of each week, and further provided, that every affidavit to proof of publication shall state that the newspaper in which such notice was published has complied with the provisions of this section; provided further, that the duration of consecutive publication provided for in this section shall not affect newspapers which have become legal publications prior to September 6, 1937; provided, however, that when any newspaper shall be forced to suspend publication in any time of war, due to the owner or publisher being inducted into the armed forces of the United States, the newspaper may be reinstated within one year after actual hostilities have ceased, with all the benefits provided pursuant to the provisions of this section, upon the filing with the secretary of state of notice of intention of such owner or publisher, the owner’s surviving spouse or legal heirs, to republish such newspaper, setting forth the name of the publication, its volume and number, its frequency of publication, and its readmission to the post office where it was previously entered as periodicals class mail matter, and when it shall have a list of bona fide subscribers voluntarily engaged as such who have paid or agreed to pay a stated price for subscription for a definite period of time. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this section except sections 493.070 to 493.120, are hereby repealed.
(RSMo 1939 § 14968, A.L. 1943 p. 859, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1145) Prior revisions: 1929 § 13775; 1919 § 10403; 1909 § 589
493.070. Advertisements published in specified newspapers (cities of 100,000 or more).
In all cities of this state which now have, or shall hereafter have, a population of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more, all public notices and advertisements, directed by any court, or required by law to be published in a newspaper, shall be published in some daily newspaper of such city, of general circulation therein, which shall have been established and continuously published as such for a period of at least three consecutive years next prior to the publication of any such notice.
(RSMo 1939 § 14970, A.L. 1941 p. 519)
18-7-201. Requirements for choice of newspaper — price.
(1) In all cases and instances where any publication is required by law or is duly authorized to be made, executed , or accomplished by, for, or on behalf of the state of Montana or any of the institutions of said state or any of the departments, boards, bureaus, or commissions thereof or any of the officers, agents, or employees of the state when acting within the scope of their lawful authority and for the benefit of the state of Montana, the same shall be published in a newspaper printed and published in the state of Montana and of general bona fide and paid circulation with second-class mailing privilege and having been printed and published continuously in the state of Montana for at least 12 months immediately preceding such publication.
§ 25-523. Legal newspaper, defined; prior publications legalized.
No newspaper shall be considered a legal newspaper for the publication of legal and other official notices unless the same shall have a bona fide circulation of at least three hundred paid subscriptions weekly, and shall have been published within the county for fifty-two successive weeks prior to the publication of such notice, and be printed , either in whole or in part, in an office maintained at the place of publication; PROVIDED, that nothing in this section shall invalidate the publication in a newspaper which has suspended publication or been printed outside of the county, on account of fire, flood or other unavoidable accident, for not to exceed ten weeks, in the year last preceding the first publication of a legal notice, advertising or publication; PROVIDED FURTHER, that all publications made prior to May 22, 1941, in a newspaper which has, on account of flood, fire or other unavoidable accident, suspended publication or been printed in an office outside of the county, are hereby legalized; PROVIDED FURTHER, that all newspapers, otherwise complying herewith, which have, on account of flood, fire or other unavoidable accident, suspended publication or been printed in an office outside of the county, for not to exceed ten weeks in any year, are hereby legalized; AND PROVIDED FURTHER, that the publication of legal or other official notices in the English language in foreign language newspapers published within the county for fifty- two successive weeks prior to the publication of such a notice, and printed either in whole or in part in an office maintained at the place of publication, shall also be legal.
(b) If by reason of generally recognized economic stress of a serious nature over which the publisher has no control it shall be necessary to suspend publication for a period not to exceed 2 years. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply only in the case of publications that have been operating continuously for a period of 5 years prior to such suspension. Any legal notice which fails of publication for the required number of insertions for such reason shall no t b e declared illegal if publication has been made in one issue of the publication and is resumed within a reasonable period.
5. The time limitations in subsection 1 do not apply to a newly established newspaper prin ted and published in:
(a) In incorporated city if, at the time such newspaper is established, there is no other newspaper prin ted and published in such city.
(b) A county if, at the time such newspaper is established, there is no other newspaper prin ted and published in such county.
NRS 238.040 Second-class mailing permit required for qualification.
NRS 238.050. Newspapers equally competent as means for publication.
No General Eligibility Statute
35: 1-2.1. State publications; qualifications of newspapers; unqualified newspaper acquiring a qualified newspaper
Whenever it is required to publish resolutions, official proclamations, notices or advertising of any sort, kind or character, including proposals for bids on public work and otherwise, by this State or by any board or body constituted and established for the performance of any State duty or by any State official or office or commission, the newspaper or newspapers selected for such publication must meet and satisfy the following qualifications, namely: said newspaper or newspapers shall be entirely printed in the English language, shall be printed and published within the State of New Jersey, shall be a newspaper of general paid circulation possessing an average news content of not less than thirty-five per centum (35%), shall have been published continuously in the municipality where its publication office is situate for not less than two years and shall have been entered for two years as second-class mail matter under the postal laws and regulations of the United States. In case a newspaper cannot meet these qualifications, itself, but has acquired another newspaper which meets these qualifications, the acquiring newspaper shall be deemed to meet these qualifications if it is published in the same municipality and entered in the same post office as was the acquired newspaper. Continuous publication within the meaning of this section shall no t b e deemed interrupted by any involuntary suspension of publication for a period not exceeding six months, resulting from loss, destruction, mechanical or electrical failure of typesetting equipment or printing presses or the unavailability, due to conditions beyond the control of the publisher, of paper or other materials and supplies necessary for operation, or resulting from a labor dispute with a recognized labor union, and any newspaper so affected shall not be disqualified hereunder in the event that publication is resumed within said period of six months.
All newspapers printed and published in the English language within the state at least once a week for at least one year continuously shall be deemed legal newspapers for the publication of official advertisements. Any court or county officer may publish official advertisements in any Sunday newspaper published in the county for the period of at least one year and such publication shall be valid in all respects.
Chapter 14, Article 11: Publication of Notice
McKinney’s Town Law § 64. 11. Official newspaper.
May designate as the official paper of the town any newspaper regularly published in the town if such newspaper has been entered as second class mail matter. If no such newspaper is published in the town, and in any town of the second class having a population in excess of sixty thousand according to the latest federal census if there is no newspaper published in such town having general circulation therein, the town board may designate any newspaper published in the county if such newspaper has general circulation in the town or if no newspaper is published in the county entered in a post office within five miles from the town, any other newspaper published in a city, town or village in an adjoining county and having a circulation in the town. If no official paper has been designated, the town board may authorize the publication of a notice, resolution or ordinance in any newspaper which could be designated as the official newspaper of the town or, if there be no newspaper which is regularly published in the town and entered as second class mail matter, the town board may authorize such publication in any newspaper published and having general circulation in the town. Such authorization shall be deemed a designation of such newspaper as the official paper of the town for the purpose of such publication. Additional newspapers published in the English language may be designated for the publication of such notices, resolutions and ordinances at the option of the town board. Notwithstanding any provisions of this subdivision to the contrary, any publication may be designated as the official paper of the town which was designated and publishing notice as an official newspaper of the town prior to the year nineteen hundred forty and continued to be so designated and publishing for at least thirty years after such year.
Whenever a notice or any other paper, document or legal advertisement of any kind or description shall be authorized or required by any of the laws of the State of North Carolina , heretofore or hereafter enacted , or by any order or judgment of any court of this State to be published or advertised in a newspaper, such publication, advertisement or notice shall be of no force and effect unless it shall be published in a newspaper with a general circulation to actual paid subscribers which newspaper at the time of such publication, advertisement or notice, shall have been admitted to the United States mails in the Periodicals class in the county or political subdivision where such publication, advertisement or notice is required to be published, and which shall have been regularly and continuously issued in the county in which the publication, advertisement or notice is authorized or required to be published, at least one day in each calendar week for at least 25 of the 26 consecutive weeks immediately preceding the date of the first publication of such advertisement, publication or notice; provided that in the event that a newspaper otherwise meeting the qualifications and having the characteristics prescribed by G.S. 1-597 to 1-599, should fail for a period not exceeding four weeks in any calendar year to publish one or more of its issues such newspaper shall nevertheless be deemed to have complied with the requirements of regularity and continuity of publication prescribed herein. Provided further, that where any city or town is located in two or more adjoining counties, any newspaper published in such city or town shall, for the purposes of G.S. 1-597 to 1-599, be deemed to be admitted to the mails, issued and published in all such counties in which such town or city of publication is located , and every publication, advertisement or notice required to be published in any such city or town or in any of the counties where such city or town is located shall be valid if published in a newspaper published, issued and admitted to the mails anywhere within any such city or town, regardless of whether the newspaper’s plant or the post office where the newspaper is admitted to the mails is in such county or not, if the newspaper otherwise meets the qualifications and requirements of G.S. 1-597 to 1-599. This provision shall be retroactive to May 1, 1940, and all publications, advertisements and notices published in accordance with this provision since May 1, 1940 , are hereby validated . Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 1-599, whenever a notice or any other paper, document or legal advertisement of any kind or description shall be authorized or required by any of the laws of the State of North Carolina, heretofore or hereafter enacted , or by any order or judgment of any court of this State to be published or advertised in a newspaper qualified for legal advertising in a county and there is no newspaper qualified for legal advertising as defined in this section in such county, then it shall be deemed sufficient compliance with such laws, order or judgment by publication of such notice or any other such paper, document or legal advertisement of any kind or description in a newspaper published in an adjoining county or in a county within the same district court district as defined in G.S. 7A-133 or superior court district or set of districts as defined in G.S. 7A-41.1, as the case may be; provided, if the clerk of the superior court finds as a fact that such newspaper otherwise meets the requirements of this section and has a general circulation in such county where no newspaper is published meeting the requirements of this section.
(1939, c. 170, s. 1; 1941, c. 96; 1959, c. 350; 1985, c. 689, s. 1; 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1037, s. 41; 1997-9, s. 1.)
40-01-09. Official newspaper of municipality
The official newspaper as chosen by the electors of the county shall be the official newspaper of the municipality in which it is published, and such official notices and legal publications as the municipality is required to publish by law shall be published therein. In municipalities where the official newspaper is not published, the governing body of the municipality, annually by resolution at its first meeting in May, or as soon thereafter as practicable, shall designate a newspaper published in the municipality, or if there is not one published, then it shall designate a newspaper which is circulated in the municipality, as the official newspaper of the municipality, including park districts therein, for the publication of notices and legal publications, including legal notices and official statements of the school districts embracing or encompassed by the municipality.
40-01-09.1. Publication of city government proceedings–Electorate to decide
Beginning with the 1996 biennial municipal elections, and every four years thereafter, all cities in North Dakota, regardless of their form of government, must put on the ballot the question of whether the minutes of its governing body shall be published in its official newspaper. If voters approve publication, the governing body shall, within seven days after each of its meetings, give its official newspaper, for publication, the complete minutes, or a complete summary showing the substantive actions taken at the meeting.
Roll call votes must be published, but may be indicated as “unanimous” when appropriate. A list of the individual checks written by the city and approved by the governing body, showing the payee and the amount of each check, must be published. However, employee salary checks need not be published if the governing body elects to publish an annual salary schedule for each employee. When applicable, these minutes may be labeled as being published subject to the governing body’s review and revision. The minutes shall continue to be published until disapproved at a succeeding quadrennial election
46-05-01. Newspapers qualified to do legal printing – File copies with state historical society -Publishing notices in adjoining county.
Before any newspaper in this state is qualified to publish any legal notice or any matter required by law to be printed or published in some newspaper in the state, or any public notice for any political subdivision within this state, the newspaper must:
1. Have been established in a regular and continuous circulation of at least one year, with a bona fide subscription list of at least one hundred fifty regular subscribers;
2. Be nonsectarian and printed in English; and
3. Have been admitted to the United States mails and have complied with the requirements of the federal laws governing periodicals mailing privileges for at least one year. The owner or publisher of each legal newspaper shall send to the state historical society, to the address designated by the director, one copy of each issue of the newspaper. In a county in which no newspaper is published, any notice required by law to be published may be published in a newspaper published in an adjoining county and having a general circulation in the county.
7.12 Qualifications for newspapers publishing legal notices.
(A) Whenever a state agency or a political subdivision of the state is required by law to make any legal publication in a newspaper , the newspaper shall be a newspaper of general circulation , without further restriction or limitation upon a selection of the newspaper to be used. If no newspaper is published in such municipal corporation, county, or other political subdivision, such legal publication shall be made in any newspaper of general circulation therein. If there are less than two newspapers published in any municipal corporation, county, or other political subdivision in the manner defined by this section, then any legal publication required by law to be made in a newspaper published in a municipal corporation, county, or other political subdivision may be made in any newspaper regularly issued at stated intervals from a known office of publication located within the municipal corporation, county, or other political subdivision. As used in this section, a known office of publication is a public office where the business of the newspaper is transacted during the usual business hours, and such office shall be shown by the publication itself. As used in the Revised Code,
“newspaper” or “newspaper of general circulation,” except daily law journals in existence on or before July 1, 2011, and performing the functions described in section 2701.09 of the Revised Code for a period of three years immediately preceding any such legal publication required to be made, is a publication bearing a title or name that is regularly issued at least once a week , and that meets all of the following requirements:
(5) The publication is circulated generally by United States mail or carrier delivery in the political subdivision responsible for legal publication or in the state, if legal publication is made by a state agency, by proof of the filing of a United States postal service “Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation” (PS form 3526) with the local postmaster, or by proof of an independent audit of the publication performed, within the twelve months immediately preceding legal publication.
(B) A person who disagrees that a publication is a “newspaper of general circulation” in which legal publication may be made under this section may deliver a written request for mediation to the publisher of the publication and to the court of common pleas of the county in which is located the political subdivision in which the publication is circulated, or in the Franklin county court of common pleas if legal publication is to be made by a state agency. The court of common pleas shall appoint a mediator, and the parties shall follow the procedures of the mediation program operated by the court.
Amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, (Vetoed Provisions) § 101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.
§25-106. Newspapers for publication of legal notices.
If there is no legal newspaper in a county, then all legal notices, advertisements, or publications of any kind required or provided for by the laws of this state shall be published in a legal newspaper in an adjoining county of this state, which newspaper has general circulation in the county or political subdivision in which such notice is required. Nothing in this section shall invalidate the publication of such legal notices, advertisements, or publications in a newspaper which has moved its place of publication from one location in the county to another location in the same county without breaking the continuity of its regular issues for the requisite length of time, or the name of which may have been changed when said change of location was made as permitted by United States postal laws and regulations. Failure to issue or publish said newspaper for a period of fourteen (14) days due to fire, accident, or other unforeseen cause, or by reason of the pendency of mortgage foreclosure, attachment, execution, or other legal proceedings against the type, presses, or other personal property used by the newspaper, shall no t b e deemed a failure to maintain continuous and consecutive publication as required by the provisions of this section, nor shall said failure invalidate the publication of a notice otherwise valid. Failure to issue or publish a newspaper qualified to publish legal notices, advertisements, or publications of any kind, for a period totaling not more than fourteen (14) consecutive days during a calendar year shall no t b e deemed a failure to maintain continuous and consecutive publication as required by the provisions of this section, nor shall said failure invalidate the publication of a notice otherwise valid.
193.010 Definitions for ORS 193.010 and 193.020.
(2) “Newspaper” means a newspaper of general circulation, published in the English language for the dissemination of local or transmitted news or for the dissemination of legal news, made up of at least four pages of at least five columns each, with type matter of a depth of at least 14 inches, or, if smaller pages, then comprising an equivalent amount of type matter, which has bona fide subscribers representing more than half of the total distribution of copies circulated , or distribution verified by an independent circulation auditing firm, and which has been established and regularly and uninterruptedly published at least once a week during a period of at least 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the first publication of the public notice. Interrupted publication because of labor-management disputes, fire, flood or the elements for a period not to exceed 120 days, either before or after a newspaper is qualified for publication of public notices, shall not affect such qualification.
[Amended by 1979 c.760 §1; subsection (1) renumbered 174.104 in 1999]
45 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
”Newspaper.” A printed paper or publication, bearing a title or name, and conveying reading or pictorial intelligence of passing events, local or general happenings, printing regularly or irregularly editorial comment, announcements, miscellaneous reading matter, commercial advertising, classified advertising, legal advertising, and other notices, and which has been issued in numbers of four or more pages at short intervals, either daily, twice or oftener each week, or weekly, continuously during a period of at least six months, or as the successor of such a printed paper or publication issued during an immediate prior period of at least six months, and which has been circulated and distributed from an established place of business to subscribers or readers without regard to number, for a definite price or consideration, either entered or entitled to be entered under the Postal Rules and Regulations as second class matter in the United States meails, and subscribed for by readers at a fixed price for each copy, or at a price fixed per annum. A newspaper may be either a daily newspaper, weekly newspaper, newspaper of general circulation, official newspaper, or a legal newspaper, as defined in this section. Continuous publication within the meaning of this section shall not be deemed interrupted by any involuntary suspension of publication resulting from loss, destruction, failure or unavailability of operating facilities, equipment or personnel from whatever cause, and any newspaper so affected shall not be disqualified to publish official and legal advertising in the event that publication is resumed within one week after it again becomes possible. A printed paper or publication, regardless of size, contents, or time of issue, or number of copies issued, distributed and circulated gratuitously, is not a newspaper. A printed paper or publication, not entitled to be entered, or which has been denied entry, as second class matter in the United States mails under the Postal Rules and Regulations of the United States is not a newspaper.
”Newspaper of general circulation.” A newspaper issued daily, or not less than once a week, intended for general distribution and circulation, and sold at fixed prices per copy per week, per month, or per annum, to subscribers and readers without regard to business, trade, profession or class.
Legal Notices, Generally (Title 15, Chapter 29, § 10-100)
Requirements for legal newspaper — Language — Size — Duration and frequency of publication. No publication is a legal newspaper for publishing legal and other official notices unless, for at least one year prior to publication of such notices, the publication is printed in the English language and contains at least four pages per issue, with at least one hundred twenty square inches of printed matter per page; and if the publication is a daily, is distributed at least five days each week, or if not a daily, is distributed at least once each week for at least fifty weeks each year. In any week in which there is a legal holiday, no more than four issues of a daily newspaper are necessary.
Price and circulation requirements. A legal newspaper shall, for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices, maintain a definite price of not less than fifty percent of its published price, and shall be paid for by no less than fifty percent of those to whom it is distributed. Such legal newspaper shall have a minimum paid circulation of at least two hundred and be intended for distribution and circulation to the general public, without regard to business, trade, or profession.
Content requirements. A legal newspaper shall contain reports of happenings of recent occurrences of a varied nature, such as political, social, moral, and religious subjects and miscellaneous reading matter, and for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices devote at least twenty-five percent of its total column space in at least one-half of its issues in any calendar year to such nonpaid news content. No more than eighty percent of the space devoted to such news content may duplicate any other publication, unless the duplicated material is from recognized general news services.
Content requirements. A legal newspaper shall contain reports of happenings of recent occurrences of a varied nature, such as political, social, moral, and religious subjects and miscellaneous reading matter, and for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices devote at least twenty-five percent of its total column space in at least one-half of its issues in any calendar year to such nonpaid news content. No more than eighty percent of the space devo ted to such news content may duplicate any other publication, unless the duplicated material is from recognized general news services.
Ownership and circulation statements — Involuntary suspension of publication — Existing legal newspapers.
In order to maintain legal newspaper status, the newspaper shall publish and submit to the secretary of state before January first of each year a sworn statement of ownership and circulation on forms prescribed by the secretary of state. Continuous publication within the meaning of this section and §§17-2-2.1 to 17-2-2.4, inclusive, is not deemed to be interrupted by any involuntary suspension of publication resulting from loss, destruction, failure, or unavailability of operating facilities, equipment, or personnel from any cause, and any newspaper so affected is not disqualified as a legal newspaper if publication is resumed within one week after it again becomes possible. This section and §17-2-2.1 to 17-2-2.4, inclusive, do not disqualify as a legal newspaper any publication which, prior to January 1, 1985, was a legal newspaper, so long as it continues to meet the requirements under which it previously qualified.
§ 2051.044. Type of Newspaper Required
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993 .
Title 45, Chapter 1: Official Notices
§ 174. Notice by publication
When a notice is required to be given by publication in a newspaper, it shall mean a newspaper published in the county where the subject matter is situated, pending or to be heard, or a newspaper published within the state which has a general circulation. In any case, in its discretion, the court may cause such notice to be further published in a newspaper which circulates in the neighborhood of the persons interested. Whenever a notice of any kind is required to be given by publication in a newspaper prior to a certain date for a certain number of weeks successively, it may be given by an insertion prior to such date once a week, for the number of successive weeks required, either in a daily, semiweekly or weekly newspaper. If such publication is in a daily or semiweekly newspaper, such notice shall be inserted on the same day of each successive week.
§ 8.01-324. Newspapers which may be used for legal notices and publications.
A. Whenever any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such newspaper, in addition to any qualifications otherwise required by law, shall:
2. Have been published and circulated at least once a week for twenty-four consecutive weeks without interruption for the dissemination of news of a general or legal character;
3. Have a general circulation in the area in which the notice is required to be published;
5. Have a second-class mailing permit issued by the United States Postal Service.
B. However, a newspaper which does not have a second-class mailing permit may petition the circuit court for the jurisdiction in which the newspaper is located for authority to publish ordinances, resolutions, notices or advertisements. Prior to filing the petition, the newspaper shall publish a notice of intention to file a petition pursuant to this section in a newspaper published or having general circulation in the jurisdiction in which the petition will be filed. The court shall grant the authority for a period of one year upon finding that the newspaper (i) meets the requirements of subdivisions A 2, A 3, and A 4; (ii) has been continually published for at least one year, employs a full-time news staff, reports local current events and governmental meetings, has an editorial page, accepts letters to the editor and is, in general, a news forum for the community in which it is circulated; (iii) has a circulation within the community to which the publication is directed and maintains permanent records of the fact and substance of the publication; and (iv) has an audit of circulation certified by an independent auditing firm or a business recognized in the newspaper industry as a circulation auditor. The authority shall be continued for successive one-year periods upon the filing of an affidavit certifying that the newspaper continues to meet the requirements of this subsection.
C. If a county with a population of less than 15,000 had regularly advertised its ordinances, resolutions, notices in a newspaper published in the county which had a general circulation in the county, a bona fide list of paying subscribers, a second class mailing permit and the newspaper continued to be published in the county and continued to have a general circulation in the county but failed to maintain its bona fide list of paying subscribers and its second class mailing permit, any advertisement of ordinances, resolutions, notices in the newspaper by the county shall be deemed to have been in compliance with this section.
Code 1950, § 8-81; 1977, c. 617; 1983, c. 297; 1989, c. 611; 1992, cc. 392, 537, 719; 2007, cc. 183, 603.
Chapter 65:16 RCW: Legal Publications
985.01. Definitions
(1g) “Governing body” has the meaning given in s. 345.05(1)(b) and includes a long-term care district board under s. 46.2895.
(1m) “Insertion,” when used to indicate the publication of a legal notice more than one time, means once each week for consecutive weeks, the last of which shall be at least one week before the act or event, unless otherwise specified by law.
(2) “Legal notice” means every notice required by law or by order of a court to be published in a newspaper or other publication, except notices required by private and local laws to be published in newspapers, and includes all of the following:
(3) “Municipality” has the meaning in s. 345.05(1)(c) and includes a long-term care district under s. 46.2895.
(4) “Proceedings”, when published in newspapers, mean the substance of every official action taken by a local governing body at any meeting, regular or special.
(5) A newspaper is “published” at the place from which its mailing permit is issued, except that if the place where the newspaper has its major concentration of circulation has no primary post office, then at the place it shall designate as its place of publication in the affidavit required by s. 985.03(2), but no newspaper shall have more than one place of publication during the same period of time.
(6) “Substance” is an intelligible abstract or synopsis of the essential elements of the official action taken by a local governing body, including the subject matter of a motion, the persons making and seconding the motion and the roll call vote on the motion, except that ordinances and resolutions published as required by law need not be republished in proceedings, but a reference to their subject matter shall be sufficient.
(7) “Wisconsin newspapers legal notices Web site” means an Internet Web site maintained by Wisconsin newspapers for the purpose of providing and maintaining an electronic version of printed and published legal notices.
985.02. Method of notification
(1) Except as otherwise provided by law, a legal notice shall be published in a newspaper likely to give notice in the area or to the person affected. Whenever the law requires publication in a newspaper published in a designated municipality or area and no newspaper is published therein publication shall be made in a newspaper likely to give notice.
(2) If the governing body of a municipality elects to post under s. 985.05(1) it shall post in the following manner:
(3) The newspaper that publishes a legal notice shall, in addition to newspaper publication, place an electronic copy of the legal notice at no additional charge on the Wisconsin newspapers legal notice Web site.
985.03. Qualifications of newspapers
(2) Any person charged with the duty of causing legal notices to be published, and who causes any legal notice, to be published in any newspaper not eligible to so publish under the requirements of sub. (1), or who fails to cause such legal notice to be published in any newspaper eligible under this section, may be fined not to exceed $100 for each offense. Each day in which a legal notice should have been but was not published as required by law shall constitute a separate offense hereunder. A newspaper in order to be eligible under this section shall also file a certificate with the county clerk stating that it qualifies under this section and stating its place of publication.
985.04. Official state newspaper
The joint committee on legislative organization shall recommend to the legislature to designate some newspaper published in Wisconsin to be the official state newspaper, which shall publish all legal notices required to be published therein. Any such publication from any of the state agencies shall be deemed official. The joint committee may invite bids from all newspapers which meet the requirements of s. 985.03, but if it does so, it is not required to recommend the lowest bidder as the official state newspaper. The joint committee shall introduce its recommendation in the legislature in the form of a joint resolution. No designation takes effect until the joint resolution is adopted. A newspaper which is designated the official state newspaper shall continue as such until the legislature designates another newspaper to be the official state newspaper.
985.05. Official municipal newspapers
(1) The governing body of every municipality not required to have an official newspaper may designate a newspaper published or having general circulation in the municipality and eligible under s. 985.03 as its official newspaper or utilize the same for specific notices. The governing body of such municipality may, in lieu of newspaper publication, direct other form of publication or posting under s. 985.02(2). Other publication or posting, however, shall not be substituted for newspaper publication in proceedings relating to: tax redemptions or sales of land acquired by the county or city authorized to act under s. 74.87 for delinquent taxes, charges or assessments; civil annexations, detachments, consolidations or incorporations under chs. 59 to 66; or legal notices directed to specific individuals. Posting may not be substituted for publication in school board elections conducted under s. 120.06 or publication under s. 60.80(2) of town ordinances imposing forfeitures. If an eligible newspaper is published in the municipality, other publication or posting shall not be substituted for newspaper publication under s. 61.32 or 61.50.
(2) When any municipality has designated an official newspaper, all legal notices published in a newspaper by such municipality shall be published in such newspaper unless otherwise specifically required by law.
(3) In lieu of the requirements of this chapter, a school board may publish or publicize under s. 120.11(4).
985.06. Official city newspaper
(1) In 2nd and 3rd class cities, the clerk shall, on or before the 2nd Tuesday of April, advertise in the official city newspaper, or if there is none, in a newspaper published in the city and eligible under s. 985.03, for separate proposals to publish in English the council proceedings and the city’s legal notices, respectively, for the ensuing year, inviting bids from all daily and weekly newspapers published in such city which are eligible under s. 985.03, also stating the security required with each bid, which shall be previously fixed by the council, and requiring delivery of the bids in writing, sealed, at the clerk’s office by 12 noon of the first Tuesday of May. At that hour, the clerk shall, in the presence of the mayor or an alderperson, open the bids and enter them in a record kept for that purpose. No bid from other than a newspaper legally invited to bid, or for more than the legal rate for like work, shall be of any effect. The paper making the lowest effective bid for the city’s legal notices shall be awarded the contract therefor. If 2 or more effective bids are for the same price, and no lower effective bid is filed, the clerk shall transmit such tie bids to the council at its next meeting and the council shall designate the successful bid. If no effective bid is received, the council may direct the clerk to readvertise as before. Each successful bidder shall execute a contract in accordance with the bid and file such bond for its performance as the council requires. No such paper shall receive more or less than the contract price nor any other compensation for the work. The paper securing the contract for the publishing of the city’s legal notices shall be the official city newspaper.
(2) In cities of the fourth class, the council, at its first meeting or as soon as may be, shall designate one or more newspapers eligible under s. 985.03 and published in the city, if any, otherwise published in the county and having a general circulation in the city, for publication of the council proceedings and as the official city newspaper for the publication of the city’s legal notices for the ensuing year. The council shall fix the price at not to exceed the legal rate for like work.
(3) The publisher, before the claim for the publication is audited, shall file with the clerk proof of publication by affidavit of the printer or foreman, attached to a copy of the matter published, stating the date or dates of publication. Such affidavit shall be conclusive evidence of publication for the purpose of audit.
(4) If for any reason any city is at any time without an official city newspaper, matters required to be published shall be published in a newspaper eligible under s. 985.03, designated by the council, at not more than the legal rate for like work.
985.065. Publication and printing; counties with population of 250,000 or more
(2)(a) In counties having a population of 250,000 or more, the county board of supervisors, at its annual meeting shall direct the county clerk to invite proposals from the English newspapers published daily in said county, for the publication and printing of the proceedings of said board, and all other notices or advertisements as shall be authorized or required to be published or printed by the said board and all officers, boards and departments of said county, during the next ensuing year, which publications and advertising may be divided and classified if the said board shall so order.
985.07. Classes and frequency of legal notices
There shall be 3 classes of legal notices under this chapter. The designated number of insertions is the minimum required by law, and the frequency may be increased at the discretion of the requisitioning agency.
(1) Class 1 notices. All notices designated as class 1 notices require one insertion.
(2) Class 2 notices. All notices designated as class 2 notices require 2 insertions.
(3) Class 3 notices. (a) All notices designated as class 3 notices require 3 insertions.
(4) The classification provided herein does not apply to notices of public election or referenda or to notices governed by s. 815.31 but such notices shall be governed by the specific statutes relating thereto.
985.09. Computation of time, Sundays, legal holidays
(1) The time for publication of legal notices shall be computed so as to exclude the first day of publication and include the day on which the act or event, of which notice is given, is to happen or which completes the full period required for publication.
(2) The time within which an act is to be done or proceeding had or taken, as prescribed by the rules of procedure, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last; if the last day be Sunday or a legal holiday the party shall have the next secular day in which to do the act or take such proceeding.
985.10. Publication on Sunday
Any legal notice may be published in a newspaper printed on Sunday, and such publication is a lawful publication and a full compliance with the order of the court or officer ordering such publication; and any such notice that may, by law or the order of any court, be required to be published for any given number of weeks may be published on any day in each week of such term, and if so published as many weeks and as many times in each week as may be required by such law or order, it shall be a lawful publication thereof.
985.11. Fees and work on Sunday
(1) In any action to recover compensation for publication of legal notices, it shall be no defense that such publication was dated, printed or issued on the first day of the week.
(2) In any action to recover compensation for labor performed on any newspaper, dated, published or issued on the first day of the week, it shall be no defense that such labor was performed on the first day of the week.
985.12. Proof of publication
(1) Affidavit of printing. The affidavit of the editor, publisher, printer or proprietor of any newspaper, or of his or her foreman or principal clerk, of the publication of any legal notice, annexed to a copy of the notice clipped from the newspaper, and specifying the date of each insertion, and the paper in which it was published, shall be received in all cases as presumptive evidence of the publication and of the facts stated therein.
(2) Time of filing. Such affidavit may be filed with the proper officer at any time after the last day of the publication of such notice, unless the filing time is otherwise specified.
(3) Same. The affidavit of publication of any notice of a sale of real property required by law to be published may be filed, at any time within 6 months after the last day of such publication, with the register of deeds of the county in which the premises are situated.
(4) Fee. The fee for an affidavit of publication shall be $1.
985.13. Change of name or discontinuance of paper
(1) Whenever a legal notice is required or ordered to be published in a particular newspaper and the name of such newspaper is changed before such publication is commenced or before it is completed, the publication shall be made or continued in the newspaper under its new name with the same effect as if the name had not been changed. The proof of the publication, in addition to other requirements, shall state the change of name and specify the period of publication in such newspaper under each name.
(2) When a newspaper ceases to be published before the publication of a legal notice is commenced, or when commenced ceases before such publication is completed, the order for publication, when one is required in the first instance, may be amended by order of the court or judge, on proof of the fact by affidavit, so as to designate another newspaper, as may be necessary; and if no order is required in the first instance such publication may be made or completed in any other newspaper; and any time during which such notice is published in the first newspaper shall be reckoned a part of the time required for the publication thereof, proof of which may be made by affidavit of any person acquainted with the facts. The second newspaper may be one published in an adjoining county in the cases mentioned in s. 985.14.
985.14. Refusal to publish
When there is only one newspaper in a county and the publisher thereof refuses to publish a legal notice, such legal notice may be published in a newspaper printed in an adjoining county; and proof by affidavit of the reason why such publication was made in an adjoining county shall accompany the proof of publication, or the order for publication, when any is necessary, may be made or amended by the court or judge so as to designate a newspaper in an adjoining county, upon affidavit showing the necessity therefor. Whenever a legal notice is required by law to be published in a newspaper in any county having a village or city situated partly in said county and partly in an adjoining county where there is no newspaper printed in such village or city within the county first mentioned, but there is a newspaper published in such village or city within such adjoining county, such notice may be published in such last mentioned newspaper.
985.15. Forfeiture for refusal to publish
If the publisher or printer of a newspaper shall, after payment or tender of the publisher’s or printer’s legal fees therefor, refuse or willfully neglect to publish any legal notice required in pursuance of law or a lawful order of publication to be published in the publisher’s or printer’s newspaper, being able to make such publication, the publisher or printer shall forfeit $25, one-half to the party prosecuting therefor.