(a) Required. —The judges of the several courts of probate must subscribe for, take and file in their respective offices one copy of each weekly newspaper published in their respective counties and, as soon as practicable after the end of each year, shall cause the number of such papers for the preceding year to be well bound and shall keep the same safely in their respective offices as the property of their respective counties. The respective county commissions must allow to such officers the sums paid by them for such subscription and binding.

(b) Exceptions. —The duties imposed in subsection (a) of this section shall be and remain subject to such exceptions and modifications as have heretofore or as may hereafter be provided by law with respect to particular counties, however identified.

(c) Newspaper not published in county. —If in any county there is no newspaper published, such officers may take and bind the papers of any adjoining county, in which the public printing and advertising of such county may be done.

(Code 1867, §§655, 656; Code 1876, §§566, 567; Code 1886, §§670, 671; Code 1896, §§3049, 3050; Code 1907, §§5190, 5191; Code 1923, §§9268, 9269; Code 1940, T. 7, §§724, 725; Acts 1984, No. 84-289, p. 501.)

Section 6-8-60

. Designation of newspaper advertisement to be published in; disregard of designation by officer; publication requirements imposed by law, mortgage or other contract.

The party in interest or at whose instance the publication of notice is to be given by advertisement in a newspaper may designate the newspaper in which such advertisement shall be made. If the officer charged with the duty of making the advertisement disregards such designation and makes advertisement in some other paper, he must pay the cost thereof and shall not be entitled to reimbursement; but all publications required by any law, mortgage or other contract to be published in a newspaper must be published in any newspaper printed in the English language which has a general circulation in the county, regardless of where the paper is printed, if the principal editorial office of the newspaper is located within the county and which newspaper shall have been mailed under the second class mailing privilege of the United States postal service from the post office where it is published for at least 51 weeks a year.

(Code 1876, §§ 553, 3970; Code 1886, § 663; Code 1896, § 3040; Code 1907, § 5181; Code 1923, § 9257; Acts 1935, No. 370, p. 791; Code 1940, T. 7, § 713; Acts 1955, No. 551, p. 1207; Acts 1961, No. 566, p. 667; Acts 1963, No. 458, p. 990; Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 395, p. 534; Acts 1971, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 131, p. 212; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 262, p. 4531.)

Section 6-8-61

Length of publication when not otherwise provided; exception.

If the length of the publication is not otherwise prescribed, it must be for three successive weeks; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any sale held under the provisions of Section 7-9A-610.

(Code 1876, §3972; Code 1886, §664; Code 1896, §3041; Code 1907, §5182; Code 1923, §9258; Code 1940, T. 7, §714; Acts 1965, No. 549, p. 811; Act 2001-481, §2.)

Section 6-8-62

Specification of weeks and days; time for publication prior to proceeding or act to be done.

(a) When the notice is required to be given for a specified number of weeks, it must be given by consecutive weekly insertions for the number of weeks so specified. When the notice is of a proceeding to be had or of an act to be done on a specified day:

(1) If the publication is for one week, the insertion must be not less than six days before such day;

(2) If for two weeks, the first insertion must be at least 12 days before such day;

(3) If for three weeks, the first insertion must be at least 18 days before such day;

(4) If for four weeks, the first insertion must be at least 24 days before such day;

(5) If for five weeks, the first insertion must be at least 30 days before such day;

(6) If for six weeks, the first insertion must be at least 36 days before such day; and

(7) So on at the same rate of increase, the time to be computed as provided in Section 1-1-4 .

(b) When the time is specified in days, two weeks' notice is equal to 15 days' notice; three weeks to 20 days; four weeks to 30 days; and six weeks to 40 days.

(Code 1896, §3043; Code 1907, §5184; Code 1923, §9260; Code 1940, T. 7, §716.)

Arizona

39-201. Definitions
A. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "newspaper" means a publication regularly issued for dissemination of news of a general and public character at stated short intervals of time. Such publication shall be from a known office of publication and shall bear dates of issue and be numbered consecutively. It shall not be designed primarily for advertising, free circulation or circulation at nominal rates, but shall have a bona fide list of paying subscribers.

B. "Newspaper" shall not include a publication which has not been admitted under federal law as second-class matter in the United States mails for at least one year.

39-204 Publication of notice; time; place .

A. When publication of a notice in a newspaper is directed or authorized by law, it shall be in a newspaper of general circulation printed in English.

B. If the number of times the notice is to be published is not specified, publication shall be:

1. If in a weekly newspaper, once each week for two consecutive weeks.

2. If in a daily newspaper, four consecutive times.

C. If the place of publication of the notice is not specified, publication shall be:

1. If by a state officer, board, or commission, in a newspaper printed and published within the county where the state capital is located .

2. If by a county officer, board, or commission, or by any person in a county, in a newspaper printed and published within such county. If no such newspaper is printed and published within the county, publication may be made in a newspaper of general circulation in the county which is printed in an adjoining county.

3. If by a district, city or town officer, board, or commission, or by any person in a district, city or town, in a newspaper printed and published within the territorial limits thereof. If no such newspaper is printed and published within the limits thereof, publication may be made in a newspaper printed and published in the county in which the district, city or town is located .

Arkansas

16-3-105. Authorized publications - Legal newspapers.

(a) As used in this section, "legal newspaper" means a publication bearing a fixed title or name, published at a fixed place of business, regularly issued at fixed intervals as frequently as one (1) time each week and having a second-class mailing privilege, and being not less than four (4) pages of five (5) columns each.

(b) The primary function of such a publication shall be to inform, instruct, enlighten, and entertain, and to be an intangible service to which the general public as a whole resorts for intelligence of passing events of a political, religious, commercial, or social nature, for local and general current happenings, editorial comment, announcements, miscellaneous reading matter, advertisements, and other notices.

(c)(1) For a newspaper to be eligible to publish legal notices and to be classified as a legal newspaper, it shall have been published at regular intervals continuously during a period of at least twelve (12) months, following the securing of a second-class mailing privilege, or as a direct legal successor of such a publication issued during the immediate prior period of at least twelve (12) months, or, in the case of a legal newspaper which surrenders its second-class mailing privilege and is subsequently sold, the resulting newspaper under new ownership is a legal newspaper if the purchased newspaper had been a legal newspaper within twelve (12) months prior to its sale. The newspaper shall be circulated and distributed from an established place of business to subscribers and readers generally of all classes in the county or counties in which it is circulated for a definite price or consideration for each copy or at a fixed price per annum, which price or consideration shall be fixed by the publisher at what he considers the value of the publication based upon the news value and service value it contains and not upon the physical or concrete worth of the raw materials so sold.

(2) It is ascertained by the General Assembly that the value of a newspaper or other publication coming within the requisites of this section is in the service that it renders to the community or communities it serves.

(d)(1) The circulation of a legal newspaper shall be proven bona fide by at least fifty percent (50%) of the subscribers thereto having paid cash for their subscriptions to the newspaper, or its agents, or through recognized news dealers, over a period of six (6) months.

(2) A legal newspaper must publish an average of forty percent (40%) news matter which has sufficient merit to have created a following of paid readers.

(e)(1) The definition of "legal newspaper" provided in this section shall no t b e construed to classify as legal newspapers publications such as racing forms, shopping guides, and similar publications devoted primarily to advertising.

(2) Special class publications having a bona fide circulation such as patriotic organs, religious publications, construction journals, and other similar class publications shall no t b e affected under the provisions of this section.

History. Acts 1937, No. 152, §§ 1-5; 1937, No. 263, §§ 1, 2; Pope's Dig., §§ 8777-8781; Acts 1943, No. 57, §§ 1, 2; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 15-108 - 15-112; Acts 1988 (3rd Ex. Sess.), No. 34, § 1.

California

GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 6000-6008

6000. A "newspaper of general circulation" is a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, which has a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers, and has been established, printed and published at regular intervals in the State, county, or city where publication, notice by publication, or official advertising is to be given or made for at least one year preceding the date of the publication, notice or advertisement. 6001. A newspaper devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race, or denomination, or for any number thereof, when the avowed purpose is to entertain or instruct such classes, is not a newspaper of general circulation. 6002. For a newspaper to be "established," it shall have been in existence under a specified name during the whole of the one-year period; provided, however, nothing herein contained shall prevent a modification of name in accordance with Section 6024 hereof where the modification of name does not substantially change the identity of the newspaper. 6003. For a newspaper to be "printed ," the mechanical work of producing it, that is the work of typesetting and impressing type on paper, shall have been performed during the whole of the one year period. If a monthly average of at least 50 per cent of the work of typesetting and a monthly average of at least 50 per cent of the work of impressing type on paper is done in accordance with the other provisions of this article, the requirements embodied in "printed " are met. 6004. For a newspaper to be "published," it shall have been issued from the place where it is printed and sold to or circulated among the people and its subscribers during the whole of the one year period. 6004.5. In order to qualify as a newspaper of general circulation the newspaper, if either printed or published in a town or city, shall be both printed and published in one and the same town or city. 6005. "printed " and "published" are not synonymous. Each relates to separate acts or functions necessary to constitute a newspaper of general circulation. 6006. Nothing in this chapter alters the standing of any newspaper which, prior to the passage of Chapter 258 of the Statutes of 1923, was an established newspaper of general circulation, irrespective of whether it was printed in the place where it was published for a period of one year as required. 6007. The status of a newspaper of general circulation remains unchanged in the event that the publication of the newspaper is discontinued by reason of economic or other conditions induced by any war to which the United States is a party and the publication is then renewed either while the war is still pending or within a period of one year from and after the date on which hostilities officially terminate. 6008. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a newspaper is a "newspaper of general circulation" if it meets the following criteria: (a) It is a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, which has a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers and has been established and published at regular intervals of not less than weekly in the city, district, or judicial district for which it is seeking adjudication for at least three years preceding the date of adjudication. (b) It has a substantial distribution to paid subscribers in the city, district, or judicial district in which it is seeking adjudication. (c) It has maintained a minimum coverage of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character of not less than 25 percent of its total inches during each year of the three-year period. (d) It has only one principal office of publication and that office is in the city, district, or judicial district for which it is seeking adjudication. For the purposes of Section 6020, a newspaper meeting the criteria of this section which desires to have its standing as a newspaper of general circulation ascertained and established, may, by its publisher, manager, editor, or attorney, file a verified petition in the superior court of the county in which it is established and published. As used in this section: (1) "Established" means in existence under a specified name during the whole of the three-year period, except that a modification of name in accordance with Section 6024, where the modification of name does not substantially change the identity of the newspaper, shall not affect the status of the newspaper for the purposes of this definition. (2) "Published" means issued from the place where the newspaper is sold to or circulated among the people and its subscribers during the whole of the three-year period.

6040. Whenever any official advertising, notice, resolution, order, or other matter of any nature whatsoever is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such publication shall be made only in a newspaper of general circulation. 6040.1. (a) Notwithstanding Section 6040, notice shall be given of ordinances enacted to authorize issuance of revenue bonds by joint powers entities and the fact that such ordinance is subject to referendum. All such notices shall meet the following requirements: (1) Notices shall appear for five consecutive days in at least one daily newspaper of general circulation published in the affected area; and if no such daily publication exists, then at least twice in the weekly newspapers of the area; and if there are no such weekly newspapers, then notice shall be posted for no less than two weeks in at least 15 public places; and (2) Notices shall state the fact that the ordinance is subject to referendum in no smaller than 10-point type, and describe the procedures for such referendum in no smaller than 8-point type; and (3) Notices shall describe in no smaller than 8-point type the nature and purpose of the bond issue, the maximum amount of the bond issue, the duration of the proposed indebted ness, the probable or anticipated rate of interest on such bonds, and the anticipated sources of revenue to redeem such bonds; and (4) Notices shall be of sufficient size to contain the information required by paragraphs (2) and (3). (b) The cost of such notice shall be borne by the party to the joint powers entity which approves the ordinance, and may be included as part of the cost of the bond issue, to be paid by revenues from the bond issue. 6040.5. As used in any law of this State providing for any publication, or notice by publication, or official advertising, "daily newspaper" means a newspaper of general circulation that is published on five or more days in a calendar week, and "weekly newspaper" includes any newspaper of general circulation that is published on at least one, but less than five, days in a calendar week. Any provision in any such law for publication in a weekly newspaper shall be deemed complied with if publication is made once a week for the period specified in a weekly newspaper as defined in this section. 6041. Whenever any publication, or notice by publication, or official advertising is required by any law of the State to be given or made by any State, county or city officer, by the officer of any political subdivision of the State, or by any officer of any court, the publication, notice by publication, or official advertising shall be given or made only in a newspaper of general circulation published within the jurisdiction of the officer. 6041.1. Any officer who gives or makes any publication, notice by publication, or official advertising pursuant to Section 6041 may also give or make such publication, notice by publication or official advertising in a newspaper of general circulation published outside the jurisdiction of the officer, provided: (a) The officer determines that a substantial number of residents within his jurisdiction would benefit therefrom, and (b) Funds have specifically been made available for such purpose. 6042. Where no newspaper of general circulation is published within the jurisdiction of the officer, then the publication, notice by publication, or official advertising shall be given or made in a newspaper of general circulation published nearest thereto. 6043. All such publications, notices by publication, or official advertisements shall be set in type not smaller than nonpareil, and shall be preceded with words printed in black-face type, not smaller than nonpareil, describing or expressing in general terms the purport or character of the notice intended to be given. 6044. State, county or city officers, officers of political subdivisions, and officers of courts who violate or disregard the provisions of this article, or of Article 1, are responsible personally and on their official bonds for all damages occasioned thereby, together with one hundred dollars ($100) liquidated damages in each case, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction by the person aggrieved or interested .

GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 6020-6027

6020. Whenever a newspaper desires to have its standing as a newspaper of general circulation ascertained and established, it may, by its publisher, manager, editor or attorney, file a verified petition in the superior court of the county in which it is established, printed and published, setting forth the facts which justify such action. 6021. The petition or the substance thereof, together with a notice that the petitioner intends on a named day to apply for an order declaring it to be a newspaper of general circulation, shall be published pursuant to Section 6062: (a) In the petitioning newspaper, and (b) In some other newspaper of general circulation published in the same city as the petitioning newspaper if there is one, and if there is none, or if publication in such newspaper is refused, then in some other newspaper of general circulation published in the same county, if there is one, and if there is none, or if publication in such newspaper is refused, then, in lieu thereof, in some other newspaper of general circulation published in an adjacent county or in such other newspaper as the court shall direct. 6022. Upon proof of the publication of the petition and notice, the court shall set the petition for hearing. Any person may appear and contest the petition either prior to or on the day set for the hearing or the day to which it is continued. 6023. The court shall hear the proofs of the petitioner and contestant, if there be any. Within 10 days thereafter it shall render its decision and judgment and the clerk shall enter it in the records of the court. 6024. (1) The decision and judgment may be vacated , modified or set aside by the court on its own motion, or on the motion of any person, whether a party to the original proceeding or not upon: (a) A verified statement of facts being made to the court. (b) Ten days' notice to the petitioner. (c) A satisfactory showing made to the court that the newspaper has ceased to be a newspaper of general circulation. (2) The decision and judgment may be modified by the court on its own motion, or on the motion of any person interested , whether a party to the original proceeding or not, upon a similar verified statement and the same notice and a satisfactory showing made to the court that the newspaper has modified its name without any substantial change in its character or identity as a newspaper of general circulation. 6025. All publications made in a newspaper during the period it was adjudged to be a newspaper of general circulation are valid and sufficient. 6026. An appeal may be taken to the supreme court from any final decision or judgment, or from any final order vacating, modifying or setting aside a decision or judgment previously entered. 6027. On and after July 1, 1952 , a newspaper shall no t b e in fact or in law a newspaper of general circulation unless it obtains or has theretofore obtained a judicial decree establishing it as having such status pursuant to the provisions of this article.

Colorado

24-70-102

Every newspaper printed and published daily, or daily except Sundays and legal holidays, or on each of any five days in every week excepting legal holidays and including or excluding Sundays shall be considered and held to be a daily newspaper; every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals three times each week shall be considered and held to be a triweekly newspaper; every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals twice each week shall be considered and held to be a semiweekly newspaper; and every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals once each week shall be considered and held to be a weekly newspaper. No publication, no matter how frequently published, shall be considered a legal publication unless it has been admitted to the United States mails with periodicals mailing privileges

24-70-103. Requisites of legal newspaper.

(1) Any and every legal notice or advertisement shall be published only in a daily, a triweekly, a semiweekly, or a weekly newspaper of general circulation and printed or published in whole or in part in the county in which such notice or advertisement is required to be published, except as provided in this section. The newspaper, if published triweekly, semiweekly, or weekly, shall have been so published in such county, except as provided in this section, continuously and uninterrupted ly during the period of at least fifty-two consecutive weeks next prior to the first issue thereof containing any such notice or advertisement; and the newspaper, if published daily, shall have been so published in such county, uninterrupted ly and continuously, during the period of at least six months next prior to the first issue thereof containing any such notice or advertisement. In the case of a municipality having territory in two counties, each of which counties has one or more legal newspapers within the municipality, the publication by such municipality of its legal notices and advertisements in one of such newspapers shall be construed as valid publication under this part 1.

(2) The mere change in the name of any newspaper or the removal of the principal business office or seat of publication of any newspaper from one place to another in the same county shall no t b reak or affect the continuity in the publication of any such newspaper if the same is in fact continuously and uninterrupted ly printed or published within such county. A newspaper shall not lose its rights as a legal publication if it fails to publish one or more of its issues by reason of a strike, transportation embargo or tie-up, or other casualty beyond the control of the publishers. Any legal notice which fails of publication for the required number of insertions by reason of a strike shall no t b e declared illegal if publication has been made in one issue of the publication.

(3) If in any county in this state no newspaper has been published for the prescribed period at the time when any such notice or advertisement is required to be published or if there is no newspaper published therein, such notice or advertisement may be published in any newspaper printed in whole or in part in an adjoining county and having a general circulation in whole or in part in said county having no newspaper published therein.

Source: L. 21: p. 570, § 3. C.L. § 5394. L. 35: p. 684, § 1. CSA: C. 130, § 3. CRS 53: § 109-1-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 109-1-3. L. 73: p. 1094, § 1.

24-70-106. Competency of newspapers - publication periods construed.

(1) Except as otherwise provided by law in express terms or by necessary implication, daily, weekly, semiweekly, and triweekly newspapers shall all be equally competent as the media for the publication of all legal notices and advertisements. Except where the publication of any such legal notice or advertisement at intervals of less than one week is required by law, publication once each week on the same weekday in any such daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper for the required number of times shall constitute publication in accordance with the law.

(2) For the purpose of defining and clarifying ambiguities in the various statutes requiring the publication of legal notices and advertisements, but not for the purpose of increasing any period of publication or the number of publications required by any statute, the meaning and intent of any law governing the publication of legal notices and advertisements, except as otherwise expressly provided, is declared to be as follows, where publication is required for:

(a) Ten days, publication once each week for three successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient;

(b) Two weeks, publication once each week for three successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient;

(c) Three weeks, publication once each week for four successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient;

(d) Four weeks, publication once each week for five successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient;

(e) Five weeks, publication once each week for six successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient;

(f) Thirty days, publication once each week for six successive weeks in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper shall be sufficient;

(g) More than thirty days or five weeks, publication once each week in any daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper for a period such that the interval elapsing between the first and last publication shall be equal to the period of publication prescribed by law shall be sufficient.

Source: L. 21: p. 572, § 7. C.L. § 5398. L. 23: p. 407, § 7. CSA: C. 130, § 6. CRS 53: § 109-1-6. C.R.S. 1963: § 109-1-6.

Am. Jur.2d. See 58 Am. Jur.2d, Notice, § § 23, 38.

Connecticut

Sec.1-2. Legal notices. Each provision of the general statutes, the special acts or the charter of any town, city or borough which requires the insertion of an advertisement of a legal notice in a daily newspaper shall be construed to permit such advertisement to be inserted in a weekly newspaper; but this section shall no t b e construed to reduce or otherwise affect the time required by law for giving such notice. Whenever notice of any action or other proceeding is required to be given by publication in a newspaper, either by statute or order of court, the newspaper selected for that purpose, unless otherwise expressly prescribed, shall be one having a substantial circulation in the town in which at least one of the parties, for whose benefit such notice is given, resides.

Florida

50.011 Where and in what language legal notices to be published. --Whenever by statute an official or legal advertisement or a publication, or notice in a newspaper has been or is directed or permitted in the nature of or in lieu of process, or for constructive service, or in initiating, assuming, reviewing, exercising or enforcing jurisdiction or power, or for any purpose, including all legal notices and advertisements of sheriffs and tax collectors, the contemporaneous and continuous intent and meaning of such legislation all and singular, existing or repealed, is and has been and is hereby declared to be and to have been, and the rule of interpretation is and has been, a publication in a newspaper printed and published periodically once a week or oftener, containing at least 25 percent of its words in the English language, entered or qualified to be admitted and entered as periodicals matter at a post office in the county where published, for sale to the public generally, available to the public generally for the publication of official or other notices and customarily containing information of a public character or of interest or of value to the residents or owners of property in the county where published, or of interest or of value to the general public.

50.031 Newspapers in which legal notices and process may be published. --No notice or publication required to be published in a newspaper in the nature of or in lieu of process of any kind, nature, character or description provided for under any law of the state, whether heretofore or hereafter enacted , and whether pertaining to constructive service, or the initiating, assuming, reviewing, exercising or enforcing jurisdiction or power, by any court in this state, or any notice of sale of property, real or personal, for taxes, state, county or municipal, or sheriff's, guardian's or administrator's or any sale made pursuant to any judicial order, decree or statute or any other publication or notice pertaining to any affairs of the state, or any county, municipality or other political subdivision thereof, shall be deemed to have been published in accordance with the statutes providing for such publication, unless the same shall have been published for the prescribed period of time required for such publication, in a newspaper which at the time of such publication shall have been in existence for 1 year and shall have been entered as periodicals matter at a post office in the county where published, or in a newspaper which is a direct successor of a newspaper which together have been so published; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall apply where in any county there shall be no newspaper in existence which shall have been published for the length of time above prescribed. No legal publication of any kind, nature or description, as herein defined, shall be valid or binding or held to be in compliance with the statutes providing for such publication unless the same shall have been published in accordance with the provisions of this section. Proof of such publication shall be made by uniform affidavit.

Georgia

9-13-142

(a) No journal or newspaper published in this state shall be declared, made, or maintained as the official organ of any county for the publication of sheriff´s sales, citations of probate court judges, or any other advertising commonly known in terms of 'official or legal advertising' and required by law to be published in such county official newspaper unless the newspaper shall meet and maintain the following qualifications:

(1) 'Newspaper' as used in this Code section means a printed product of multiple pages containing not greater than 75 percent advertising content in no more than one-half of its issues during the previous 12 months, excluding separate advertising supplements inserted into but separately identifiable from any regular issue or issues of the newspaper;

(2) The newspaper shall be published within the county and continuously at least weekly for a period of two years or is the direct successor of such a newspaper. Failure to publish for not more than two weeks in any calendar year shall not disqualify a newspaper otherwise qualified;

(3) For a period of two years prior to designation and thereafter, the newspaper shall have and maintain at least 75 percent paid circulation as established by an independent audit. Paid circulation shall not include newspapers that are distributed free or in connection with a service or promotion at no additional charge to the ultimate recipient. For circulation to be considered paid, the recipient of the newspaper or such recipient´s employer or household must pay reasonable and adequate consideration for the newspaper. No rules of circulation of audit companies, the United States Postal Service, or accounting principles may be considered in determining paid circulation if they are inconsistent with the provisions of this subsection;

(4) Based on the published results of the 1990 United States decennial census or any future such census, the newspaper shall have and maintain at least the following paid circulation within the county for which it is designated as the legal organ newspaper:

(A) Five hundred copies per issue in counties having a population of less than 20,000;

(B) Seven hundred fifty copies per issue in counties having a population of at least 20,000 but less than 100,000; or

(5) For purposes of this Code section, paid circulation shall include home or mail delivery subscription sales, counter, vendor and newsrack sales, and sales to independent newspaper contract carriers for resale. Paid circulation shall not include multiple copies purchased by one entity unless the multiple copies are purchased for and distributed to the purchaser´s officers, employees, or agents, or within the purchaser´s household.

(b) However, in counties where no journal or newspaper meets the qualifications set forth in subsection (a) of this Code section, the official organ may be designated by the judge of the probate court, the sheriff, and the clerk of the superior court, a majority of these officers governing from among newspapers otherwise qualified to be a legal organ that meet the minimum circulation in the preceding subsection for the county, or if there is no such newspaper, then the newspaper having the greatest general paid circulation in the county.

(c) Any selection or change in the official organ of any county shall be made upon the concurrent action of the judge of the probate court, the sheriff, and the clerk of the superior court of the county or a majority of the officers. No change in the official legal organ shall be effective without the publication for four weeks of notice of the decision to make a change in the newspaper in which legal advertisements have previously been published. All changes in the official legal organ shall be made effective on January 1 unless a change has to be made where there is no other qualified newspaper.

(d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Code section, an official organ of any county meeting the qualifications under the statute in force at the time of its appointment and which was appointed prior to July 1, 1999, may remain the official organ of that county until a majority of the judge of the probate court, the sheriff, and the clerk of the superior court determine to appoint a new official organ for the county.

(e) During the month of December in each year, the judge of the probate court of each county shall notify the Secretary of State, on a form supplied by the Secretary of State, of the name and mailing address of the journal or newspaper currently serving as the official organ of the county. The judge of the probate court shall also likewise notify the Secretary of State of any change in the official organ of the county at the time that such change is made. The Secretary of State shall maintain at all times a current listing of the names and addresses of all county organs and shall make such list available to any person upon request.

Idaho TITLE 60 PUBLIC PRINTING AND OFFICIAL NOTICES CHAPTER 1 CONTRACTS FOR PRINTING -- PUBLICATION OF NOTICES 60-106. QUALIFICATIONS OF NEWSPAPERS PRINTING LEGAL NOTICES. No legal notice, advertisement or publication of any kind required or provided by the laws of the state of Idaho, to be published in a newspaper, shall be published or have any force or effect, as such, unless the same be published in a newspaper of general interest published in the state of Idaho, and which newspaper if published weekly, has been continuously and uninterrupted ly published in the county during a period of seventy-eight (78) consecutive weeks prior to the first publication of the notice, or advertisement, and, if published daily, has been so published as a daily newspaper in the county during a period of twelve (12) consecutive months prior to the first publication of the notice or advertisement; provided that, notwithstanding any other provision of Idaho laws, the term "newspaper of (or having) general circulation," wherever used in Idaho Code as a qualification of newspapers required to be used for the publication of notice, shall mean a "newspaper," as defined in this section, that is published within the boundaries of the governmental entity wherein the notice is required to be published and which newspaper has the largest paid circulation among all newspapers published in that governmental entity as verified by the sworn statement of average total paid or requested circulation for the preceding twelve (12) months that was filed on the annual statement of ownership, management and circulation with the U.S. postal service on the date immediately preceding the date of the required publication of notice; excepting that, where no newspaper is published within the governmental entity required to publish a notice, the term "newspaper of (or having) general circulation" shall mean the newspaper with the largest paid circulation published within any county in which the governmental entity is located , or the newspaper published nearest to the boundaries of the governmental entity; provided, that nothing in this chapter shall invalidate the publication of such notice or advertisement in any newspaper which has simply changed its name, frequency of publication, suspended publication because of an act of God, or public enemy, fire, strike, or other labor dispute, explosion, flood, government prohibition, government requisition of essential property, preferential government orders, breakdown, legal acts of public authorities or other acts beyond the control of the publisher for a period of not to exceed six (6) months, or changed the place of publication from one part of the county to another part thereof, withou t b reaking the continuity of its regular issues for the required length of time: and, provided further, that this chapter shall not apply to counties in which no newspaper has been published for the required length of time: provided the term "Newspaper" as used in this section shall apply only to such newspapers of general interest made up of at least four (4) pages of at least five (5) columns each, printed from type matter or from "slugs" cast upon the linotype or intertype or similar "slug-casting" machine, or by the process known as "offset," or stereotyped forms of at least seventeen and three-fourths (17 3/4) inches depth; or, if smaller pages, then comprising an equivalent amount of type matter, and which shall have at least two hundred (200) bona fide subscribers living within the county in which the newspaper is published at regular intervals and, in no case, less frequently than once a week; provided that a newspaper produced by the process known as mimeographing or similar methods shall no t b e deemed a legal newspaper for publications of any kind. And provided further, that any duly qualified newspaper, as hereinbefore defined, shall not forfeit its standing as such by reason of the fact that it has suspended publication for all or any part of the period during which the United States has been or shall be engaged in the prosecution of any war, or for one (1) year following the date of the proclamation of the President of the United States declaring that this nation is no longer at war, or the termination of a state of war shall be otherwise established. And if any such newspaper shall resume regular publication within one (1) year from the date when the termination of the state of war shall be so established, it shall then be as fully qualified to publish any legal notice, advertisement, or publication required to be published by the laws of the state of Idaho, as if such newspaper had not suspended regular publication during the above mentioned period of time. No newspaper shall qualify under this section unless the same shall hold a valid second class mailing permit from the United States Post Office. Any violations of the previous requirements of this section concerning printing of newspapers other than in the governmental entity in which a notice or advertisement is required to be printed are hereby excused and any advertisement published in any such newspapers is hereby validated .

Illinois

(715 ILCS 5/5)

Sec. 5. When any notice is required by law or contract to be published in a newspaper (unless otherwise expressly provided in the contract), it shall be intended to be in a secular newspaper of general circulation, published in the city, town or county, or some newspaper specially authorized by law to publish legal notices, in the city, town, or county. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the contract, the term "newspaper" means a newspaper

(a) which consists of not less than 4 pages of printed matter and contains at least 130 square inches of printed matter per page; and

(b) which is printed through the use of one of the conventional and generally recognized printing processes such as letterpress, lithography or gravure; and

(c) which annually averages at least 25% news content per issue; or which annually averages at least 1,000 column inches of news content per issue, the term "news content" meaning for the purposes of this Act any printed matter other than advertising; and

(d) which publishes miscellaneous reading matter, legal or other announcements and notices, and news and information concerning current happenings and passing events of a political, social, religious, commercial, financial or legal nature, and advertisements or bulletins; and

(e) which has been continuously published at regular intervals of at least once each week with a minimum of 50 issues per year, for at least one year prior to the first publication of the notice; or which is a successor to a newspaper as herein defined with no interruption of

publication of more than 30 days; or which is a merged or consolidated newspaper formed by the merger or consolidation of two or more newspapers, one of which has been continuously published at regular intervals of at least once each week with a minimum of 50 issues per year, for at least one year prior to the first publication of the

notice. A newspaper shall be considered as continuously or regularly published although its publication has been suspended, where such suspension was caused by fire or an Act of God or by a labor dispute or by its owner, publisher, managing editor or other essential employee entering the active military service of the United States, if the newspaper was continuously or regularly published for at least one year prior to its suspension and if its publication is resumed at any time not later than 12 months after such fire or Act of God, or if its publication is resumed at any time within 12 months after the

termination of the labor dispute, or if its publication is resumed at any time within 12 months after the termination of the war in connection with which such persons entered such military service.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 1494.)

Indiana

IC 5-3-1-4
Notices by political subdivisions and school corporations; requirements; notice in multiple counties; supplementary notices
    Sec. 4. (a) Whenever officers of a political subdivision are required to publish a notice affecting the political subdivision, they shall publish the notice in two (2) newspapers published in the political subdivision.
    (b) This subsection applies to notices published by county officers. If there is only one (1) newspaper published in the county, then publication in that newspaper alone is sufficient.
    (c) This subsection applies to notices published by city, town, or school corporation officers. If there is only one (1) newspaper

published in the municipality or school corporation, then publication in that newspaper alone is sufficient. If no newspaper is published in the municipality or school corporation, then publication shall be made in a newspaper published in the county in which the municipality or school corporation is located and that circulates within the municipality or school corporation. The notice shall be posted :
        (1) at or near the city or town hall or school administration building; or
        (2) at the:
            (A) public building where the governing body of the respective city, town, or school corporation meets; or
            (B) post office in the municipality or school corporation (or at the bank if there is no post office);
        if the municipality does not have a city or town hall, or the school corporation does not have an administration building.
    (d) This subsection applies to notices published by officers of political subdivisions not covered by subsection (a) or (b), including township officers. If there is only one (1) newspaper published in the political subdivision, then the notice shall be published in that newspaper and if another newspaper is published in the county and circulates within the political subdivision in the other newspaper. If no newspaper is published in the political subdivision, then publication shall be made in a newspaper published in the county and that circulates within the political subdivision.
    (e) This subsection applies to a political subdivision, including a city, town, or school corporation. Notwithstanding any other law, if a political subdivision has territory in more than one (1) county, public notices that are required by law or ordered to be published must be given as follows:
        (1) By publication in two (2) newspapers published within the boundaries of the political subdivision.
        (2) If only one (1) newspaper is published within the boundaries of the political subdivision, by publication in that newspaper and in some other newspaper:
            (A) published in any county in which the political subdivision extends; and
            (B) that has a general circulation in the political subdivision.
        (3) If no newspaper is published within the boundaries of the political subdivision, by publication in two (2) newspapers that:
            (A) are published in any counties into which the political subdivision extends; and
            (B) have a general circulation in the political subdivision.
        (4) If only one (1) newspaper is published in any of the counties into which the political subdivision extends, by publication in that newspaper if it circulates within the political subdivision.
    (f) A political subdivision may, in its discretion, publish public notices in a qualified publication or additional newspapers to provide supplementary notification to the public. The cost of publishing supplementary notification is a proper expenditure of the political subdivision.
(Formerly: Acts 1927, c.96, s.4.) As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.45,

SEC.3; Acts 1981, P.L.46, SEC.1; Acts 1982, P.L.33, SEC.1; P.L.48-1983, SEC.1; P.L.5-1988, SEC.30; P.L.1-1990, SEC.51; P.L.35-1990, SEC.5; P.L.64-1995, SEC.6; P.L.38-1997, SEC.4; P.L.98-2000, SEC.2.

5-3-1-0.4 "Newspaper" defined

Sec. 0.4. As used in this chapter, "newspaper" refers to a newspaper that:
(1) is a daily, weekly, semiweekly, or triweekly newspaper of general circulation;
(2) has been published for at least three (3) consecutive years in the same city or town;
(3) has been entered, authorized, and accepted by the United States Postal Service for at least three (3) consecutive years as mailable matter of the periodicals class; and
(4) has at least fifty percent (50%) of all copies circulated paid for by subscribers or other purchasers at a rate that is not nominal.

5-3-1-0.6 "Place of publication" defined

Sec. 0.6. (a) For purposes of this chapter, a newspaper or qualified publication is published at the place where the newspaper or qualified publication has its original entry for mail privileges authorized by the United States Postal Service.
(b) For purposes of this chapter, a newspaper or qualified publication is considered published at only one (1) place. The place of publication does not include places at which additional entry offices have been established with the authorization of the United States Postal Service.

Iowa

618.1. Publications in English

All notices, proceedings, and other matter whatsoever, required by law or ordinance to be published in a newspaper, shall be published only in the English language and in newspapers published wholly in the English language.

618.3 Requirements for newspaper for official publication.

For the purpose of establishing and giving assured circulation to all notices and reports of proceedings required by statute to be published within the state, if newspapers are required to be used, only a newspaper which meets all of the following requirements shall be designated for official publication purposes:

1. Is a newspaper of general circulation issued at a regular frequency that has been published within the area and regularly mailed through the post office of entry for at least two years.

2. Has a list of subscribers who have paid, or promised to pay, at more than a nominal rate, for copies to be received during a stated period.

3. Devotes at least twenty-five percent of its total column space in more than one-half of its issues during any twelve-month period to information of a public character other than advertising.

4. Is paid for by at least fifty percent of the persons or subscribers to whom it is distributed .

Section History: Early form

[C35, § 11099-e1; C39, § 11099.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 618.3]

Section History: Recent form

86 Acts, ch 1183, § 4

Kansas

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.

No legal notice, advertisement or publication of any kind required or provided by any of the laws of the state of Kansas, to be published in a newspaper shall have any force or effect unless the same is published in a newspaper which:

(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.

History: L. 1891, ch. 156, § 1; L. 1901, ch. 239, § 1; L. 1913, ch. 223, § 1; R.S. 1923, 64-101; L. 1935, ch. 236, § 1; L. 1943, ch. 228, § 1; L. 1947, ch. 325, § 1; L. 1959, ch. 250, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 312, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 75, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 224, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 68, § 1; L. 1998, ch. 135, § 1; July 1.

Kentucky

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 second-class mailing permit issued for that office. A newspaper published outside of Kentucky shall no t b e 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 regularly, as frequently as 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 larges t b ona 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 no t b e 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 larges t b ona 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.

Effective: July 14, 1992

History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 2, effective July 14, 1992 . -- Amended

1984 Ky. Acts ch. 201, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984 . -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts

ch. 180, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982 ; and ch. 430, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1982 . -

- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 1. -- created 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 42, sec. 2.

Louisiana

43:142. 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 a parish having a population of not less than four hundred thousand 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 that 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.

43:141. 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 .

§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.

Maine

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. [1997, c. 405, §1 (amd).]

§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. [RR 1997, c. 2, §2 (cor).]

Maryland

§ 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.

[1984, ch. 284, § 9; 2001, ch. 709.]

Michigan

691.1051 Newspaper; definition; publication of notices.

Sec. 1.

The term “newspaper” as used in any statute of this state, except the revised judicature act of 1961 relative to the publication of a notice of any kind, shall be construed to refer only to a newspaper published in the English language for the dissemination of local or transmitted news and intelligence of a general character or for the dissemination of legal news, which

(a) has a bona fide list of paying subscribers or has been published at not less than weekly intervals in the same community without interruption for at least 2 years, and

(b) has been published and of general circulation at not less than weekly intervals without interruption for at least 1 year in the county, township, city, village or district where the notice is required to be published. A newspaper shall not lose eligibility for interruption of continuous publication because of acts of God, labor disputes or because of military service of the publisher for a period of not to exceed 2 years and provided publication is resumed within 6 months following the termination of such military service,

(c) annually averages at least 25% news and editorial content per issue. The term “news and editorial content” for the purpose of this section means any printed matter other than advertising.

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

Minnesota

331A.02 Requirements for a qualified newspaper.

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;