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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 45 Pa.C.S.A. Legal Notices § 308. Additional publication in legal journals

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by statute, every notice or advertisement required by law or rule of court to be published in one or more newspapers of general circulation, unless dispensed with by special order of court, shall also be published in the legal newspaper, issued at least weekly, in the county, designated by rules of court for the publication of court or other legal notices, if such newspaper exists. Publication in such legal newspaper shall be made as often as required to be made in such newspapers in general circulation, and shall be subject to the same stipulations and regulations as those imposed for the like services upon all newspapers.

(b) Exceptions.--

(1) Subsection (a) shall not require the publication in such legal newspapers of municipal ordinances, municipal or county auditors' or controllers' reports, school district auditors' or controllers' reports, or summaries or statements thereof, mercantile appraisers' notice, advertising for bids for contracts for public work, materials or supplies, or lists of delinquent taxpayers.

(2) Publication of election notices in legal newspapers shall be governed by the provisions of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L. 1333, No. 320), known as the “Pennsylvania Election Code.”  1

1 25 P.S. § 2600 et seq.
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