NY Pub Off L § 70-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers 70-A - Fees to Be Paid by Public Officers for Public Advertisements.

§ 70-a. Fees  to be paid by public officers for public advertisements.   The charge for  the  publication  of  concurrent  resolutions,  proposed   constitutional  amendments, propositions or questions to be submitted to   the voters of the state, tax sales and official notices required  to  be   published  by state boards, commissions or officers in newspapers of the   state, shall be paid from the treasury on the audit and warrant  of  the   comptroller,  after  certification  by  the  proper  officer that such a   publication has been regularly made as prescribed by law. The charge for   the publication, if authorized by law, of digests of  laws  of  a  local   nature in the newspaper designated to publish such digests shall be paid   by  the  several  counties  of  the  state  in  which  such  laws may be   published, upon like certification. The charge for  the  publication  of   concurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions   or  questions  to  be  submitted  to  the  voters of the state or of any   political subdivision thereof or therein, tax sales by the state or  any   county  or  municipality  therein,  and  of  all  official  notices  and   advertisements authorized or required by law  to  be  published  at  the   expense  of  the  state  or  of  a  county,  city, town, village, public   authority, public  benefit  corporation  or  other  political  or  civil   subdivision  of the state, shall be at the rate of twenty-nine cents per   line of a column width not less than ten  pica  ems,  provided  that  in   computing  such  charge  per  line  the line shall average at least five   words for each insertion in newspapers having  less  than  two  thousand   five  hundred  circulation;  twenty-nine and one-half cents per line for   newspapers having two thousand five hundred or more circulation and less   than five thousand; thirty and one-half cents per  line  for  newspapers   having  five  thousand  or more circulation and less than seven thousand   and five hundred; thirty-one and one-half cents per line for  newspapers   having seven thousand five hundred or more circulation and less than ten   thousand;  thirty-two  and one-half cents per line for newspapers having   ten thousand or more circulation and less  than  fifteen  thousand;  and   three  and  one-half  cents  per  line in addition to the thirty-two and   one-half cents for the initial fifteen thousand  circulation,  for  each   additional   five   thousand  circulation  up  to  thirty-five  thousand   circulation and one and one-half cents per line for each additional five   thousand possessed by such newspapers. To all of the  above  rates  nine   cents  per  line  shall be added to the initial insertion charge of each   separate advertisement. To all  of  the  above  rates  for  the  initial   insertion eight cents per line shall also be added for tabular matter or   intricate  composition.  Display  advertising  shall  be  charged  agate   measurement, fourteen lines to each inch, ten to thirteen pica ems wide,   depending on the makeup of the newspaper  publishing  such  copy.  Every   newspaper printed, published or having its principal office outside of a   city   having   a  population  of  over  three  hundred  fifty  thousand   inhabitants, as a condition precedent to  designation  as  the  official   newspaper of any county, city, town, village or other political or civil   subdivision  of  the  state  or for the making of claim for compensation   under the foregoing provisions of this section, must be  established  at   least one year and entered in the post office as second class matter.This  rate  shall  not  apply  to  any  newspaper printed, principally   circulated or having its principal office in the counties of New York or   Bronx within the first judicial district  or  in  the  county  of  Kings   within  the second judicial district or in the county of Richmond within   the thirteenth judicial district or in the county of Nassau  within  the   tenth  judicial  district or in the county of Queens within the eleventh   judicial district or in the  county  of  Westchester  within  the  ninth   judicial district or in any city having a population of over one hundred   seventy-five thousand inhabitants within the seventh and eighth judicial    districts,  where  the  rate  for  such publication may be equal to, but   shall not exceed, the regularly established classified advertising  rate   of  such  newspapers.  In reckoning line charges allowance shall be made   for date lines, paragraph endings, titles, signatures, and similar short   lines as full lines where the same are set to conform to the usual rules   of  composition.  Every  newspaper  printed,  published  or  having  its   principal office outside of a city having a  population  of  over  three   hundred  fifty  thousand  inhabitants  designated for the publication of   concurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions   or questions to be submitted to the voters of the state and making claim   for compensation must be established at least one year, entered  in  the   post  office  as second class matter and be printed and published in the   town, village or city or its post office address and  except  newspapers   designated,  printed,  published and having their principal offices in a   city having a population of  more  than  three  hundred  fifty  thousand   inhabitants,  shall attach to such claim an affidavit of the circulation   of such newspaper for the six months period ending March thirty-first or   September thirtieth immediately preceding, which shall be  used  as  the   basis  of circulation rating. Papers printed, published and having their   principal offices outside a city having a population of more than  three   hundred  fifty  thousand  inhabitants  shall accept the minimum rate per   line until such time as they establish to the satisfaction of the  state   comptroller  sufficient circulation to entitle them to a higher rate. It   shall be the duty of each board of supervisors in the  several  counties   of  the state, in making out the assessment rolls, to assess and levy on   the taxable property of the county whose representatives they are,  such   sums  as  shall  be  sufficient  to defray the expense of publishing the   digest of laws of a local nature, if  such  publication  be  authorized,   applicable  only  to  the  county affected, in the newspaper designated.   Notwithstanding any provision of  this  section  to  the  contrary,  any   publication  which  was  designated and publishing notice as an official   newspaper prior to the year nineteen hundred forty and continued  to  be   so  designated and publishing for at least thirty years after such year,   which has been designated for the publication of concurrent resolutions,   proposed constitutional amendments,  propositions  or  questions  to  be   submitted  to  the  voters of the state, may make claim for compensation   pursuant to the provisions of this section.