- (a) The governing body of each city of the second and third class shall designate by resolution a newspaper to be the official city newspaper. Once designated the newspaper shall be the official city newspaper until such time as the governing body designates a different newspaper.
(b) The newspaper selected for the official publications of cities of the second and third class shall be one which has the following qualifications:
- (1) It must be published at least weekly 50 times each year and have been so published for at least one year prior to the publication of any official city publication.
- (2) It must be entered at the post office of publication as second-class mail matter.
- (3) More than 50% of the circulation must be sold to the subscribers either on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis.
- (4) It shall have general paid circulation on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis in the county and shall not be a trade, religious or fraternal publication.
L. 1929, ch. 113, § 1; L. 1959, ch. 79, § 2; L. 1986, ch. 75, § 1; May 8.