In all cases where publication of legal notices is required or allowed by law, the person or official desiring such publication shall be required to pay:

For all matters other than tabular matter, eleven cents ($0.11) per word for first insertion, and ten cents ($0.10) per word for each subsequent insertion, with each separate group of numerals included in such matter to be counted as one word, regardless of the number of digits involved.

For all tabular matter, in not to exceed eight-point type, including but not limited to, lists of persons, firms and corporations whose personal property taxes are delinquent and lists of lands and town lots upon which taxes are delinquent, sixty cents ($0.60) per line per newspaper column in width, for first insertion, and fifty-five cents ($0.55) per line per newspaper column in width, for each subsequent insertion.

The county treasurer shall collect the cost of publication of lists of lands and town lots sold for delinquent taxes at original sale or resale from the individuals purchasing such lands and town lots at the sale or resale involved, and shall deposit all monies so collected to the credit of the general fund of the county, and the publisher of the notice involved shall be paid for the publication of any such notice, from the general fund of the county, or, to the extent that proper appropriation be not available therefor at the time of publication, from the "Resale-Property Fund" of the county.

R.L. 1910, § 3258; Amended by Laws 1919, HB 165, c. 167, p. 241, § 1; Amended by Laws 1929, SB 133, c. 248, p. 318, § 1; Amended by Laws 1953, SB 331, p. 116, § 1, emerg. eff. April 21, 1953; Amended by Laws 1967, HB 918, c. 218, § 1, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967; Amended by Laws 1973, SB 271, c. 31, § 1, emerg. eff. April 18, 1973; Amended by Laws 1977, SB 42, c. 35, § 1; Amended by Laws 1979, HB 1169, c. 76, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1979; Amended by Laws 1981, HB 1122, c. 31, § 1, emerg. eff. April 7, 1981; Amended by Laws 1982, SB 525, c. 22, § 1, eff. October 1, 1982; Amended by Laws 1988, HB 1837, c. 159, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1988; Amended by Laws 1994, HB 1143, c. 93, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1994.