NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 4/6/2012.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 12-1229
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Murray, Kerr J., Ramirez, Stephens, Todd;
      also SENATOR(S) Scheffel.
      
      
      Concerning publication requirements for a newspaper in which a
           legal notice or advertisement is printed.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-70-101, add (4) as
      follows:
      
           24-70-101.  Definitions. As used in this part 1, unless the context
      otherwise requires:
      
           (4)  "Published" means a newspaper maintains an office in the
      county to gather news, sell advertising, or conduct the general
      business of newspaper publications.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-70-103, amend (3)
      as follows:
      
           24-70-103.  Requisites of legal newspaper. (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 published 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. If there is no
      newspaper in any adjoining county that has been published for the
      prescribed period at the time when any such notice or
      advertisement is required to be published, a required notice or
      advertisement may be published in a newspaper having general
      circulation within the county.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2012
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Frank McNulty                      Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO