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Legal Notices
I am not sure how legal notice publication works in other states but in Wisconsin I think that there is one specific paper is designated as the "official" paper for that city/community and it must meet the statutory guidelines that define an "official" newspaper......
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On October 9, 2009, Dick said:
Richard,
The Southwest Star, Mike Fredrickson and the Hill Country News, Don Moore 512-259-4449 both publish legals. I have three cities that I am designated as there legal newspaper. One thing which helps us is we both have 2nd class permits. You can get legals without the Periodicals Permit but it is hard.
You have to get the governmental entity you want the legals from to declare your newspaper the legal newspaper. And of you have a paid paper in your community it is very difficult to get around this rule. If you are a suburban paper and the only one which carries news and you compete with say the Dallas Morning News or Houston Chronicle you have a good chance of getting your legals. If you are in a smaller community with a paid circulation competitor the journey is tough.
That said, go to your city council and ask them to vote your paper in. This is your best chance if you don’t have the Periodical Permit. By the way it takes one year of publishing a paid newspaper to get the permit, so it is not easy.
Don Moore
Publisher |
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On October 9, 2009, Dick said:
As the publisher of the Helotes Echo, and the paper in Helotes with the largest circulation, I get to publish the legals for the City of Helotes. As Helotes Is a small city and my paper is free, we do not fall under the rule of having to be a paid circulation. Our city council votes on a yearly basis as to the paper to publish the legals. In the past we published the Leon Valley legals until they were told by their city attorney that the legal newspaper had to be a paper with a paid circulation. So, the first thing I would do is go to the next city council meeting and find out what their criteria is. The most benefit is the revenue, the second benefit is that the citizens of Helotes and Grey Forest are use to looking in our paper for the public notices which help keep our readership. The legal rate should be your lower rate of your class display rates.
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On October 9, 2009, Dick said:
First off, I do not publish legal notices in my community paper because the expense of carrying the postal permit that is required to publish these notices is not worth the revenue that is generated by publishing them. There are publications in this market who are "paid" newspapers that publish legal notices. I checked with the city and county governments in this area and they said that they would go with the "newspapers" before publishing their notices with a non-paid community paper (their circulation in much larger). So, from my perspective, it is not worth the expense to publish legal notices.
David Lisenby,
Lumberton Observer |
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On August 19, 2009, An Unidentified Member said:
"At Morton Falls Publishing Company we publish legal notices whenever possible as they are a good, quick source of revenue. We always get money up front and either charge by the word or by the space that the notice takes. (Space and words are set where it is roughly the same price either way.) A lot of times the client requires a publisher's affidavit, which is a notarized statement which says when the notice was published and in what publication. We charge $5 extra for the affidavit. We then package all this up with two tearsheets, more if they want them.
"Most of the time a legal notice has to go into a 'publication of general circulation' which is distributed in the area. There is some legal mumbo-jumbo, but our government entities are so corrupt in my market that they don't care what the law says. They frequently publish notices of tax rate increases and notices of unpopular elections in the least read newspaper they can find. You can take this all to a lawyer and get his opinion (and you probably should) but my experience is that in Texas there is no cop. Government entities do what they want to do, the Attorney General's office turns its head, the local district attorney's office (which often has jurisdiction) does nothing. It's the Wild West.
"Just publish the notices under a section labeled LEGAL NOTICES, get the money up front and run to the bank.
"You'll get more legal notices from the various government entities (city, county, school district, ESDs, library districts, etc.) if your newspaper publishes only chamber of commerce rubber-stamped sunshine news. If you ever publish an investigative piece that suggests that someone in government might be a liar or a cheat, you won't get much business in the legal notice department.
"As for rates, I charge the full bore. These entitles are almost always taxing entities and they really don't care how much it costs. They just write checks because it isn't their money. Consider it as a way to get some of your tax dollar back."
--Douglas Kirk
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