§ 16-3-103 — Payment and rates

(a) (1) When any notice or advertisement relating to any cause, matter, or thing in any court of record shall be required by law or the order of any court to be published, the notice or advertisement, when duly published, shall be paid for by the party at whose instance it was published. This payment, or so much thereof as is deemed reasonable, may be taxed as other costs otherwise allowed by the proper courts in the course of the proceedings to which the advertisement relates. (2) Where there is more than one (1) newspaper published in any county, the advertisement shall be made in the newspaper designated by the attorney for the party causing the advertisement to be made. (b) When any advertisement shall be made by a public officer thereunto authorized by law, the reasonable expense for advertising shall be allowed and paid out of the state or county treasury as other demands and charges of a like nature are allowed and paid. (c) When a publication of a legal notice of any kind is allowed or required by law, except real property and personal property delinquent tax rates, a newspaper publishing the notice shall charge and receive not more than its regular classified advertising rate for publication.

Legislative History

Acts 1891, No. 157, §§ 1-3, p. 269; C. & M. Dig., §§ 6803-6805; Acts 1929, No. 92, § 1; 1933, No. 66, § 1; 1937, No. 169, § 1; Pope's Dig., §§ 8772-8774; Acts 1947, No. 123, § 1; 1955, No. 60, § 1; 1969, No. 116, § 1; 1977, No. 547, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 15-102 -- 15-104.