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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 4103 By: Frix
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to definitions and general
provisions; amending 25 O.S. 2021, Section 106, which
relates to public notices; modifying legal notice
publication by newspaper; and providing an effective
date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 2021, Section 106, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 106. No legal notice, advertisemen t, or publication of
any kind required or provided for by the laws of this state to be
published in a newspaper shall have force or effect unless published
in a legal newspaper of the county. A legal n ewspaper of the county
is any newspaper which, during a period of one hundred four (104)
consecutive weeks immediately prior to the first publication of such
notice, advertisement, or publication:
1. Has maintained a paid general subscription circulation in
the county; and
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2. has been admitted to the United States mails as paid second -
class mail matter; and
3. Has been continuously and uninterruptedly published in the
county.
If there is no legal newspaper in a county, then all legal notices,
advertisements, or publications of any kind required or provided for
by the laws of this state shall be published in a legal newspaper in
an adjoining county of this state, which newspaper has general
circulation in the county or politic al subdivision in which such
notice is required.
Nothing in this section shall inval idate the publication of such
legal notices, advertisements, or publications in a newspaper which
has moved its place of publication from one location in the county
to another location in the same count y without breaking the
continuity of its regular issue s for the requisite length of time,
or the name of which may have been changed when said change of
location was made as permitted by United States postal laws and
regulations. Failure to issue or publi sh said newspaper for a
period of fourteen (14) days d ue to fire, accident, or other
unforeseen cause, or by reason of the pendency of mortgage
foreclosure, attachment, execution, or other legal proceedings
against the type, presses, or other personal prop erty used by the
newspaper, shall not be deemed a fail ure to maintain continuous and
consecutive publication as required by the provisions of this
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section, nor shall said failure invalidate the publication of a
notice otherwise valid. Failure to issue or publish a newspaper
qualified to publish legal notices , advertisements, or publications
of any kind, for a period totaling not more than fourteen (14)
consecutive days during a calendar year shall not be deemed a
failure to maintain continuous and consecut ive publication as
required by the provisions of this section, nor shall said failure
invalidate the publication of a notice otherwise valid.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
58-2-10063 LRB 01/06/22