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Alabama § 6-8-64 . Costs of publication -- Rates; applicability of section.
(a) No newspaper may charge more than its then current published commercial classified rates. When any matter or material is required to be published in tabular form, the rate to be charged and paid shall not exceed the nationally published rate.
(b) The rates established in this section shall apply to any and all legal notices, advertisements, publications, statements, or other matter of whatever kind or character required by the Constitution of Alabama, by general, local, or special law or by rules or orders of courts to be published in newspapers in this state, whether the agency required to cause the publication to be made is an individual, officer, municipality, county, the state, governmental subdivision, or any other legal entity; provided, that rates established in this section shall not apply when a local law prescribes a different rate, in which event said local law shall be applicable. Arizona § 39-221. Price for printing; size of type
A. The maximum price which shall be paid for public printing and advertising, and for publications required by law, shall be at a rate per column inch, per insertion, charged for legal advertising as shown by the local rate card of the newspaper in which publication is to be made. B. Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, the type used for such publications and legal advertising shall not be larger than the regular body type of the newspaper in which it is published.
Arkansas § 16-3-103. Publication payment
(a)(1) When any notice or advertisement relating to any cause, matter, or thing in any court of record shall be required by law or the order of any court to be published, the notice or advertisement, when duly published, shall be paid for by the party at whose instance it was published. This payment, or so much thereof as is deemed reasonable, may be taxed as other costs otherwise allowed by the proper courts in the course of the proceedings to which the advertisement relates.
(2) Where there is more than one (1) newspaper published in any county, the advertisement shall be made in the newspaper designated by the attorney for the party causing the advertisement to be made.
(b) When any advertisement shall be made by a public officer thereunto authorized by law, the reasonable expense for advertising shall be allowed and paid out of the state or county treasury as other demands and charges of a like nature are allowed and paid.
(c)
When a publication of a legal notice of any kind is allowed or required
by law, except real property and personal property delinquent tax rates,
a newspaper publishing the notice shall charge and receive not more than
its regular classified advertising rate for publication.
California § 20169. Publication of legal notices; bids; contract
Annually before the beginning of the fiscal year, in cities where there is more than one newspaper of general circulation printed and published, the legislative body shall publish a notice inviting bids and contract for the publication of legal notices required to be published in such a newspaper. The contract shall include the printing and publishing of all such legal notices during the fiscal year.
If
there is only one such newspaper, the legislative body may contract with
it without advertising for bids. Colorado § 24-70-107. Rates for legal publications
(1)(a) On or after January 1, 1993, for all publicly supported legal notices or advertisements published in newspapers, the rate paid for the first insertion of such notice shall not exceed forty-four cents for each single-column line of six-point type and shall not exceed thirty-two cents per line for each subsequent insertion. If the notice is set in larger type, the rate shall be prorated. Regardless of the size of type the notice is set in, the rates specified in this paragraph (a) are based on a single column measuring ten pica ems wide. If the column width is either wider or narrower for a single column, the rate per line shall be prorated on the ten pica em width.
(b) All emblems, display headings, rule work, and necessary blank space shall be considered to be solid type. For the purpose of calculating the charge for the items enumerated in this paragraph (b) only, the rate shall not exceed the line rate charge figured at twelve lines per inch for each column inch or a proportional amount for fractions of an inch.
(2)(a) On or after January 1, 1993 , for all privately supported legal notices or advertisements, the rate paid shall not exceed the newspaper's local classified display line rate which is offered to commercial customers and shall include the same frequency and volume discounts. The legal publication rate shall be published in the newspaper's rate card.
(b) Notwithstanding any statute to the contrary, if any local government fee set by statute is too low to permit the local government to recover the full cost of publishing a privately supported legal notice or advertisement, the local government may adjust the fee by the actual dollar amount necessary to recover the full cost of the publication.
(3) Any contract providing for payment of a notice at a lesser sum than is provided in this section shall be valid.
(4)
Upon request by the party placing a legal publication, the newspaper shall
minimize the space required for publication of a valid and readable notice,
but in no case shall the type be less than six points.
Florida 50.061. Amounts chargeable
(1) The publisher of any newspaper publishing any and all official public notices or legal advertisements shall charge therefor the rates specified in this section without rebate, commission or refund.
(2) The charge for publishing each such official public notice or legal advertisement shall be 70 cents per square inch for the first insertion and 40 cents per square inch for each subsequent insertion, except that:
(a) In all counties having a population of more than 304,000 according to the latest official decennial census, the charge for publishing each such official public notice or legal advertisement shall be 80 cents per square inch for the first insertion and 60 cents per square inch for each subsequent insertion.
(b) In all counties having a population of more than 450,000 according to the latest official decennial census, the charge for publishing each such official public notice or legal advertisement shall be 95 cents per square inch for the first insertion and 75 cents per square inch for each subsequent insertion.
(3) Where the regular established minimum commercial rate per square inch of the newspaper publishing such official public notices or legal advertisements is in excess of the rate herein stipulated, said minimum commercial rate per square inch may be charged for all such legal advertisements or official public notices for each insertion, except that a governmental agency publishing an official public notice or legal advertisement may procure publication by soliciting and accepting written bids from newspapers published in the county, in which case the specified charges in this section do not apply.
(4) All official public notices and legal advertisements shall be charged and paid for on the basis of 6-point type on 6-point body, unless otherwise specified by statute.
(5) Any person violating a provision of this section, either by allowing or accepting any rebate, commission, or refund, commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083 .
(6) Failure to charge the rates prescribed by this section shall in no way affect the validity of any official public notice or legal advertisement and shall not subject same to legal attack upon such grounds.
Georgia
(a) The rates to be allowed to publishers for publishing legal advertisements shall be as follows:
(1) For each 100 words, not more than the sum of $ 10.00 for each insertion for the first four insertions; and (2) For each subsequent insertion, not more than the sum of $ 9.00 per 100 words.
In all cases fractional parts shall be charged for at the same rates.
(b) For the purpose of the computation in subsection (a) of this Code section, a block of numbers or a block of letters and numbers shall be counted as one word. If the block of numbers or letters or any combination thereof contains a hyphen, a semicolon, a colon, or other similar character or punctuation mark, the block shall still be counted as one word, provided there are no intervening spaces. When an intervening space does occur, this space shall mark the start of a new word.
(c)
No judge of the probate court, sheriff, coroner, clerk, marshal, or other
officer shall receive or collect from the parties, plaintiff or defendant,
other or greater rates than set forth in this Code section. Idaho 60-105 Rates for official notices.
The rate to be charged for all official notices required by law to be published in any newspaper in this state, by any state, county, municipal official or other person, shall be as follows: seven cents (7¢ )for each pica in a column line for the first insertion and six cents (6¢ )for each pica in a column line for each subsequent insertion. For table and figure matter, the rate shall be eight cents (8¢ )for each pica in a column line for the first insertion, and six cents (6¢ )for each pica in a column line for each subsequent insertion. In the event that a column line ends in a one-half (1/2) pica measurement, the rate for such onehalf (1/2) pica shall be one-half (1/2) the rate established for a full pica for the type of matter set forth herein. For purposes of this section, the type used shall not be smaller than 7 point nor greater than 8 point.
Illinois 15/1. Rate; type
§ 1. When any notice, advertisement, proclamation, statement, proposal, ordinance or proceedings of an official body or board or any other matter or material is required by law or by the order or rule of any court to be published in any newspaper, the face of type in which such publication shall be made shall be not smaller than the body type used in the classified advertising in the newspaper in which such publication is made. The minimum reasonable rate shall be 20 cents per column line for each insertion. 5-3-1-1 Cost of advertising; form of legal advertisements; determination of circulation
Sec. 1. (a) The cost of all public notice advertising which any elected or appointed public official or governmental agency is required by law to have published, or orders published, for which the compensation to the newspapers or qualified publications publishing such advertising is drawn from and is the ultimate obligation of the public treasury of the governmental unit concerned with the advertising shall be charged to and collected from the proper fund of the public treasury and paid over to the newspapers or qualified publications publishing such advertising, after proof of publication and claim for payment has been filed.
(b) The basic charges for publishing public notice advertising shall be by the line and shall be computed based on a square of two hundred and fifty (250) ems at the following rates:
(1) Before January 1, 1996, three dollars and thirty cents ($3.30) per square for the first insertion in newspapers or qualified publications plus one dollar and sixty-five cents ($1.65) per square for each additional insertion in newspapers or qualified publications. (2) After December 31, 1995 , and before December 31, 2005 , a newspaper or qualified publication may, effective January 1 of any year, increase the basic charges by five percent (5%) more than the basic charges that were in effect during the previous year. However, the basic charges for the first insertion of a public notice in a newspaper or qualified publication may not exceed the lowest classified advertising rate charged to advertisers by the newspaper or qualified publication for comparable use of the same amount of space for other purposes.
An additional charge of fifty percent (50%) shall be allowed for the publication of all public notice advertising containing rule or tabular work.
(c) All public notice advertisements shall be set in solid type not larger than the type used in the regular reading matter of the newspaper or qualified publication, without any leads or other devices for increasing space. All public notice advertisements shall be headed by not more than two (2) lines, neither of which shall total more than four (4) solid lines of the type in which the body of the advertisement is set. Public notice advertisements may be submitted by an appointed or elected official or a governmental agency to a newspaper or qualified publication in electronic form, if the newspaper or qualified publication is equipped to accept information in compatible electronic form.
(d) Each newspaper or qualified publication publishing public notice advertising shall submit proof of publication and claim for payment in duplicate on each public notice advertisement published. For each additional proof of publication required by a public official, a charge of one dollar ($1) per copy shall be allowed each newspaper or qualified publication furnishing proof of publication.
(e) The circulation of a newspaper or qualified publication is determined as follows:
(1) For a newspaper, by the circulation stated on line 10.C. (Total Paid and/or Requested Circulation of Single Issue Published Nearest to Filing Date) of the Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation required by 39 U.S.C. 3685 that was filed during the previous year. (2) For a qualified publication, by a verified affidavit filed with each governmental agency that has public notices the qualified publication wants to publish. The affidavit must: (A) be filed with the governmental agency before January 1 of each year; and (B) attest to the circulation of the qualified publication for the issue published nearest to October 1 of the previous year.
618.11. Fees for publication
The compensation, when not otherwise fixed, for the publication in a newspaper of any notice, order, citation, or other publication required or allowed by law shall be at a rate of thirty-four cents for one insertion and twenty-three cents for each subsequent insertion for each line of eight point type two inches in length, or its equivalent. Beginning June 1, 2001 , and each June 1 thereafter, the director of the department of administrative services shall calculate a new rate for the following fiscal year as prescribed in this section, and shall publish this rate as a notice in the Iowa administrative bulletin prior to the first day of the following calendar month. The new rate shall be effective on the first day of the calendar month following its publication. The rate shall be calculated by applying the percentage change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers for the last available twelve- month period published in the federal register by the federal department of labor, bureau of labor statistics, to the existing rate as an increase or decrease in the rate rounded to the nearest one- tenth of a cent. The calculation and publication of the rate by the director of the department of administrative services shall be exempt from the provisions of chapters 17A and 25B. 28-137. Fees for publication of legal notices and legal advertisements in newspapers; proof of publication; taxation and collection in actions or proceedings in court. (a) A newspaper shall charge and receive for publishing a legal advertisement a rate not exceeding the lowest regular classified advertising rate charged by the newspaper to its commercial customers.
(b) On or before July 1 of each year, the publisher of each newspaper that publishes any legal advertisement in this state shall file with the county clerk of the county in which the newspaper is located a card showing the newspaper's rates for legal advertisements, which shall be effective for a period of one year from the July 1 on or before which the filing is made.
(c) Any contract rates or volume discounts given to commercial customers by the newspaper shall be available to persons or political subdivisions causing publication of legal advertisements, under the same terms and conditions as for commercial advertisements.
(d) The classified rate for legal advertisements shall not in any year be increased by more than 15% in excess of the rate for the next preceding year.
(e) Proof of the publication of all such notices shall be made in the manner required by law or the order or citation of court or summons, and each such proof of publication shall be accompanied by a verified statement of the fees and charges therefor. The fees and charges of all such publications when made in any action or proceeding in any court of this state shall be taxed as costs and collected in the same manner as other costs in the action or proceeding.
(f) Failure to charge rates in accordance with this section shall in no way affect the validity of any official public notice or legal advertisement and shall not subject any such notice or advertisement to legal attack upon such grounds.
(g)
As used in this section, "legal advertisement" and "political
subdivision" have the meanings provided by K.S.A.
28-137b and amendments thereto.
Kentucky 424.160 Rates
(1) For all newspaper advertising required by law, the publisher is entitled to receive payment for each insertion at a rate per column inch, computed as or published no larger than nine (9) point type on ten (10) point leading. The rate shall not exceed the lowest rate paid by advertisers for comparable matter in the same publication.
(2) If by law or by the nature of the matter to be published, a display form of advertisement is required, or if the person or officer responsible for causing an advertisement to be published determines in his discretion that a display form is practicable or feasible, and so directs the newspaper, the advertisement shall be published in display form and the newspaper shall be entitled to receive its established display rate.
(3) If it is provided by statute that an advertisement shall be published of the filing of a petition or application seeking official action, the filing, if required by other than a governmental official or agency, shall not be deemed complete unless there is deposited with the petition or application an amount sufficient to pay the cost of publication.
(4) The expense of advertisements in judicial proceedings shall be taxed as costs by the clerk of the court. Louisiana LSA-R.S. 43: 205 . Costs of legal advertisements; penalty for accepting rebate
A. In all parishes, the cost of all advertisements in relation to judicial proceedings, or in the sale of property under judicial process, or in any other legal proceedings of any kind, shall be a maximum of ninety percent of the commercial display advertising rate charged by the newspaper for a similar volume of business. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the cost of advertisements charged to a state agency when said publication is required by law in all parishes which do not contain a city of over one hundred thousand population shall not exceed the rate of five 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.
B. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the agate line shall be the unit or basis of measurement and charges for all advertisements placed by a state agency when said publication is required by law, including bidding advertisements in all parishes containing a city of more than one hundred thousand but less than three hundred thousand population. The printing shall not be let at over twenty-eight cents per agate line for each insertion.
C. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the agate line shall be the unit or basis of measurement and charges for all advertisements placed by a state agency when said publication is required by law, including bidding advertisements in all parishes containing a city of over three hundred thousand population. The printing shall not be let at a charge of over thirty-one cents per agate line for each insertion.
D. If the newspaper refuses to publish at the rate herein specified, the advertisements shall be published in the manner provided for in cases where there are no newspapers.
E. It is unlawful for any sheriff, tax collector, clerk of court, or any other public official, or any auctioneer, administrator, executor, tutor, trustee or other legal representative of any party in any judicial proceeding or other legal proceeding to demand or accept any part of the charge for the printing or publishing in the form of a rebate or otherwise from any newspaper or publisher of a newspaper.
F. Whoever is found guilty of accepting any rebate or any other form of payment shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or shall be imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.
Michigan 600.2534. Legal advertisements, rates; state advertisements; political notices and advertising
Sec. 2534. (1) For publishing a legal notice or an order, citation, summons, advertisement, or other matter arising out of judicial proceedings required by law to be published in a newspaper, except as provided in subsection (2), the cost shall not exceed the rate of $15.00 per folio for the first insertion, and $5.85 per folio for each subsequent insertion. A minimum cost of $42.50 shall be allowed for a notice which must appear 2 times or more, and a minimum cost of $31.60 shall be allowed for a notice which must appear 1 time.
(2) Each year for 3 years beginning June 1, 1996 , the rates described in subsection (1) shall be adjusted by the same percentage as the percentage increase in the rate of inflation for the same period as measured by the Detroit consumer price index.
(3) A newspaper publishing for the state an advertisement other than tax lists shall be permitted to charge for the advertisement its regular established commercial rate in effect at the time the advertisement is published.
(4) A newspaper accepting for publication a legal or public notice as provided by law shall not charge higher rates or collect higher rates for political notices or political advertising than they charge for commercial advertising of the same or similar size. 331A.06. Fees for publication
Subdivision 1. The maximum rate charged for publication of a public notice shall not exceed the lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space in the newspapers in which the public notice appears, and shall include all cash discounts, multiple insertion discounts, and similar benefits extended to the newspaper's regular customers.
Subd. 2. Fees for publication. Notwithstanding subdivision 1, no newspaper may increase its rates for publication of public notices by more than ten percent per year, as compared to the maximum rate actually charged by the newspaper in the previous year for publication of public notices, and in any case the new rate shall not exceed the rate described in subdivision 1. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to mean that such an increase is required.
Subd. 3. When the governing board of a local public corporation awards a contract for the publication of public notices based on competitive bidding, the rate established by the competitive bidding shall be the rate charged for publication of the public notices.
Subd. 4. When a statute refers to publication of a public notice at the legal rate the maximum rate shall be as provided in this section.
Mississippi § 25-7-65 . Printers and publishers of notices, orders, etc.; errors
Printers and publishers shall be entitled to the following fees:
(a) For publishing in a newspaper any summons, order, citation, advertisement or notice required by law to be published in a newspaper, Twelve Cents (12¢) for each word it contains for the first insertion, and Ten Cents (10¢) for each of the words for each subsequent insertion required by law; however, as an alternative, such printers and publishers may charge such fees per line which are acceptable to the party placing the publication not to exceed the Twelve Cents (12¢) and Ten Cents (10¢) per word as set out in this subsection.
When four (4) or more numerals appear consecutively in any such legal publication, four (4) numerals shall be considered as one (1) word, and if there remains a fractional portion of such unit of four (4) numerals therein such fraction shall also be counted as one (1) word. In the case of numbers containing less than four (4) numerals which are isolated from other numerals by words in such publication, the same shall be counted as one (1) word. When tables or tabular matter are included, each line of the standard newspaper column shall be considered as containing at least six (6) words.
The fees authorized in this paragraph (a) shall not be chargeable for any erroneous publication of a summons, order, citation, advertisement or notice required by law to be published in a newspaper, if such error is not attributable to the person or entity requesting the publication.
(b) For making proof of publication, making a copy thereof, and for deposing to the same, Three Dollars ($3.00); but this section shall not apply to the publication of ordinances of municipalities, proceedings of the board of supervisors. 493.025. Rates generally allowable for public advertisements
Except where otherwise provided in this chapter, when the publication of a law, proclamation, nominations to office, proposed constitutional amendments or other questions to be submitted to the people, order or notice shall be published in any newspaper for the state, or for any public officer on account of, or in the name of the state, or for any county, or for any public officer on account of, or in the name of any county, or any legal advertisement, legal notice, order of court or public notice of any kind is allowed or required by law, a newspaper publishing such notice shall charge and receive not more than its regular local classified advertising rate. The regular local classified advertising rate is that rate shown by the newspaper's rate schedule as offered to the public, and shall have been in effect for at least thirty days preceding publication of the particular notice to which it is applied.
Montana 18-7-201. Requirements for choice of newspaper -- price
(1) In all cases and instances where any publication is required by law or is duly authorized to be made, executed, or accomplished by, for, or on behalf of the state of Montana or any of the institutions of said state or any of the departments, boards, bureaus, or commissions thereof or any of the officers, agents, or employees of the state when acting within the scope of their lawful authority and for the benefit of the state of Montana, the same shall be published in a newspaper printed and published in the state of Montana and of general bona fide and paid circulation with second-class mailing privilege and having been printed and published continuously in the state of Montana for at least 12 months immediately preceding such publication.
(2) The price for such publication and by whomsoever accomplished shall not exceed the minimum going rate charged any other advertiser for the same publication set in the same sized type and published for the same number of insertions.
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