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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
SENATE BILL 1187 By: Pemberton
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public notice; amending 25 O.S.
2021, Section 106, which relates to newspapers for
publication of legal notices; modifying requirements
for legal newspaper for publication of notice;
updating statutory language; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 202 1, Section 106, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 106. No legal notice, advertisement, or publication of
any kind required or provided for by the laws of this state to be
published in a newspaper shal l have force or effect unless published
in a legal newspaper of the county. A legal newspaper 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 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 se cond-
class mail matter; and
3. has 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 cou nty or political subdivision in which such
notice is required.
Nothing in this section shall invalidate 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 county without breaking the
continuity of its regular issues for the requisite leng th of time,
or the name of which may have been changed when said the change of
location was made as permitted by United States postal laws and
regulations. Failure to issue or publish said the newspaper for a
period of fourteen (14) days due to fire, acci dent, or other
unforeseen cause, or by reason of the pendency of mortgage
foreclosure, attachment, execution, or other legal proceedin gs
against the type, presses, or other personal property used by the
newspaper, shall not be deemed a failure to maintain continuous and
consecutive publication as required by the provisions of this
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section, nor shall said such failure invalidate the publi cation of a
notice that is otherwise valid. Failure to issue or publish a
newspaper qualified to publish legal notices, a dvertisements, 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 ma intain continuous and consecutive publication
as required by the provisions of this sec tion, nor shall said such
failure invalidate the publication of a notice that is otherwise
valid.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
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