First Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. 97­0309.01 MKD SENATE BILL 97­067

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATOR Mutzebaugh

STATE, VETERANS &

MILITARY AFFAIRS

A BILL FOR AN ACT

CONCERNING THE ELIMINATION OF THE REQUIREMENT THAT A NEWSPAPER BE ADMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES MAILS AS SECOND CLASS MATTER IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED A LEGAL PUBLICATION.

Bill Summary

"Requirements For Legal Newspapers"

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments which may be subsequently adopted.)

Eliminates the requirement that a newspaper be admitted to the United States mails as second­class matter in order to be considered a legal publication in which a legal notice or legal advertisement may be published.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION 1.  24­70­102, Colorado Revised Statutes, 1988 Repl. Vol., is amended to read:

24­70­102.  Legal publications.  Every newspaper printed and published daily, or daily except Sundays and legal holidays, or on each of any five days in every week excepting legal holidays and including or excluding Sundays shall be considered and held to be a daily newspaper; every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals three times each week shall be considered and held to be a triweekly newspaper; every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals twice each week shall be considered and held to be a semiweekly newspaper; and every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals once each week shall be considered and held to be a weekly newspaper. No publication, no matter how frequently published, shall be considered a legal publication unless it has been admitted to the United States mails as second­class matter.

SECTION 2.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.