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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 1187 By: Pemberton
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to public notice; amending 25 O.S.
66	66	2021, Section 106, which relates to newspapers for
67	67	publication of legal notices; modifying requirements
68	68	for legal newspaper for publication of notice;
69	69	updating statutory language; and providing an
70	70	effective date.
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75	75	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
76	76	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 202 1, Section 106, is
77	77	amended to read as follows:
78	78	Section 106. No legal notice, advertisement, or publication of
79	79	any kind required or provided for by the laws of this state to be
80	80	published in a newspaper shal l have force or effect unless published
81	81	in a legal newspaper of the county. A legal newspaper of the county
82	82	is any newspaper which, during a period of one hundred four (104)
83	83	consecutive weeks immediately prior to the first publication of such
84	84	notice, advertisement, or publication:
85	85	1. has Has maintained a paid general subscription circulation
86	86	in the county; and
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138	138	2. has been admitted to the United States mails as paid se cond-
139	139	class mail matter; and
140	140	3. has Has been continuously and uninterruptedly published in
141	141	the county.
142	142	If there is no legal newspaper in a county, then all legal notices,
143	143	advertisements, or publications of any kind required or provided for
144	144	by the laws of this state shall be published in a legal newspaper in
145	145	an adjoining county of this state, which newspaper has general
146	146	circulation in the cou nty or political subdivision in which such
147	147	notice is required.
148	148	Nothing in this section shall invalidate the publication of such
149	149	legal notices, advertisements, or publications in a newspaper which
150	150	has moved its place of publication from one location in the county
151	151	to another location in the same county without breaking the
152	152	continuity of its regular issues for the requisite leng th of time,
153	153	or the name of which may have been changed when said the change of
154	154	location was made as permitted by United States postal laws and
155	155	regulations. Failure to issue or publish said the newspaper for a
156	156	period of fourteen (14) days due to fire, acci dent, or other
157	157	unforeseen cause, or by reason of the pendency of mortgage
158	158	foreclosure, attachment, execution, or other legal proceedin gs
159	159	against the type, presses, or other personal property used by the
160	160	newspaper, shall not be deemed a failure to maintain continuous and
161	161	consecutive publication as required by the provisions of this
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213	213	section, nor shall said such failure invalidate the publi cation of a
214	214	notice that is otherwise valid. Failure to issue or publish a
215	215	newspaper qualified to publish legal notices, a dvertisements, or
216	216	publications of any kind, for a period totaling not more than
217	217	fourteen (14) consecutive days during a calendar year shall not be
218	218	deemed a failure to ma intain continuous and consecutive publication
219	219	as required by the provisions of this sec tion, nor shall said such
220	220	failure invalidate the publication of a notice that is otherwise
221	221	valid.
222	222	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
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