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LA Rev Stat § 43:140 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§140. Definitions

RS 140 - Definitions  As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section:  (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. Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 36, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 43:141 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§141. Official journal to be selected by police juries, city and parish councils, municipal corporations, and school boards

RS 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.  Amended by Acts 1958, No. 515, §1; Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.
LA Rev Stat § 43:142 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§142. Qualifications of newspaper

RS 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. (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 if the publication is qualified to publish judicial advertisements and legal notices in Jefferson or Orleans Parish or 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. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 289, §1; Acts 1952, No. 276, §1; Acts 1970, No. 111, §1; Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 1997, No. 422, §1; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 36, §1; Acts 2014, No. 197, §1, eff. May 22, 2014. NOTE: See also R.S. 43:140(3) regarding definition of newspaper.
LA Rev Stat § 43:143 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§143. Newspaper selected to be known as official journal; duties

RS 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.
LA Rev Stat § 43:144 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§144. Penalty for failure to have proceedings published

RS 144 - Penalty for failure to have proceedings published The official of any municipal corporation, police jury, or school board by law responsible for the preparing and recording of the official proceedings who, within twenty days from the date of any meeting at which the official proceedings were had, wilfully neglects or fails to furnish the official journal with a copy of the minutes, ordinances, resolutions, budgets, and proceedings for publication, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both. Acts 2010, No. 251, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 43:145 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§145. Municipalities to select newspaper located within their boundaries

RS 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.  Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.
LA Rev Stat § 43:146 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§146. Designation of other newspaper when no newspaper published in the parish

RS 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. Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.
LA Rev Stat § 43:147 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§147. Compensation for printing

RS 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. Amended by Acts 1962, No. 138, §1; Acts 1972, No. 89, §1; Acts 1976, No. 485, §1; Acts 1980, No. 317, §1, eff. June 1, 1981; Acts 1999, No. 501, §2, eff. June 28, 1999.
LA Rev Stat § 43:148 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§148. Bids may be required

RS 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.
LA Rev Stat § 43:149 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§149. Vacancy; how filled

RS 149 - Vacancy; how filled  In case of vacancy the governing body shall select an official journal for the unexpired term.
LA Rev Stat § 43:150 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§150. Official journal; notification of secretary of state

RS 150 - Official journal; notification of secretary of state  Prior to January 1, 1985, and at least thirty days after effecting any change in its official journal, each parish, municipality, and school board shall file with the secretary of state the name and address of its official journal, the effective date of the selection, and the period for which the selection is effective. For purposes of meeting the requirements of Article III, Section 13 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the official journal on file with the secretary of state shall be the official journal of the parish, municipality, or school board.  Acts 1984, No. 427, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 43:171 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§171. Selection of newspaper

RS 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. (2) The newspaper: (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. (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 if the publication is qualified to publish judicial advertisements and legal notices in Jefferson or Orleans Parish or 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). Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 1997, No. 422, §1; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 36, §1; Acts 2014, No. 197, §1, eff. May 22, 2014.
LA Rev Stat § 43:172 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§172. Contracts

RS 172 - Contracts  The governing authorities of the political subdivisions listed in R.S. 43:171 may make a contract with the official journal for its publishing, or if no contract is entered into, then the rate allowed by law shall govern as in the matter of all legal printing.
LA Rev Stat § 43:173 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§173. Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 378, §2, eff. July 2, 1986.

RS 173 - Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 378, §2, eff. July 2, 1986.
LA Rev Stat § 43:174 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§174. Notification of secretary of state

RS 174 - Notification of secretary of state  Prior to January 1, 1985, and at least thirty days after effecting any change in the official journal, the governing authority of each political subdivision subject to the provisions of this Part shall file with the secretary of state the name and address of its official journal, the effective date of the selection, and the period for which the selection is effective. For purposes of meeting the requirements of Article III, Section 13 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the official journal on file with the secretary of state shall be the official journal of the political subdivision. If any political subdivision subject to the provisions of this Part fails to file with the secretary of state the information required by this Section, the official journal of the parish or parishes in which the political subdivision is situated shall be the official journal for purposes of meeting the requirements of Article III, Section 13 of the Constitution of Louisiana.  Acts 1984, No. 427, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 43:181 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§181. Auxiliary official journals of political subdivisions

RS 181 - Auxiliary official journals of political subdivisions A.(1) The governing authority of political subdivisions or the official charged with the selection may annually select an auxiliary official journal for a term not exceeding one year. An auxiliary official journal shall be a newspaper which has 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) The newspaper: (a) Shall not have missed during that period as many as three consecutive issues unless caused by fire, flood, strike, or natural disaster; (b) Shall have maintained a general paid circulation in the parish in which the body is located for five years prior to the selection; and (c) 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. (3) Selection of an auxiliary official journal shall be confined to those cities in excess of one hundred thousand population. (4) 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. B. In each instance where the governing authority of a political subdivision is required by law to publish more than one notice, advertisement, legal notice, judicial advertisement, or other publication in an official journal or otherwise, the governing authority of the political subdivision or the official charged with the selection may elect to publish one of the required publications in an auxiliary official journal at a rate not exceeding the rate to publish the same in the official journal; and, the said publication shall constitute publication in an official journal for the purposes of any law. C. In addition to publishing the publications required by law, the governing authority of a political subdivision or the official charged with the selection may elect to publish the required publication for any public purpose in an auxiliary official journal not in excess of the number of times required for the official publication and at a rate not exceeding the rate for publication of the same in the official journal, and said additional publications made pursuant to this Subsection shall not constitute official publications. D. Political subdivisions may appropriate and spend funds pursuant to the authority granted in this Section. Added by Acts 1977, No. 413, §1. Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 1997, No. 422, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 43:201.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Public Printing and Advertisements|§201.1. Judicial advertisements and legal notices; alternative method of publication

RS 201.1 - Judicial advertisements and legal notices; alternative method of publication A. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when advertisements are required to be made in relation to judicial proceedings, in the sale of property under judicial process, or in any other legal proceedings of whatever kind in a parish which contains a municipality with a population of three hundred thousand or more as determined by the latest federal decennial census, such advertisements and legal notices shall be published in a newspaper or other publication which (i) is domiciled in such parish, (ii) is published in the English language at least weekly, (iii) meets the requirements of R.S. 43:200(3)(a), (b), and (c), and (iv) has maintained a total circulation of at least thirty thousand for at least five consecutive years prior to it being selected. The newspaper or other publication shall be selected in June of each year, for a term of one year, by the sheriff, constable, clerk, or other officer, as the case may be, who is charged with the conduct of such sales requiring the advertisement. B. The total circulation of a newspaper or other publication selected to publish judicial advertisements under this Section shall be proved not less than annually by an experienced publication auditing firm prior to the selection of the newspaper or other publication. The audit shall reflect the total circulation of the newspaper or other publication, and a copy of the most recent audit shall be submitted as an attachment to any proposal by a qualifying newspaper or other publication to publish judicial advertisements and legal notices. C. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when additional judicial advertisements are required to be inserted in an auxiliary journal in a parish with a population of three hundred thousand or more as determined by the latest federal decennial census, such auxiliary journal must have been published for at least seventy-five years prior to the insertion of the advertisement or publication, have been previously selected for no less than five years as an auxiliary journal for such parish, and not be eligible to be selected, pursuant to Subsection A of this Section, by the sheriff, constable, clerk, or other officer, as the case may be, of such parish to publish advertisements in relation to judicial proceedings, in the sale of property under judicial process, or in any other legal proceedings of whatever kind. D. The provisions of this Section shall supersede and control to the extent of conflict with any other provisions of law. Acts 2012, No. 825, §2, eff. June 14, 2012.