§ 5-3-3-1 — Circulation requirements

In all cases in which the law provides for the
publication of a legal notice or notices pertaining to public works
projects in any newspaper, it shall be legal for the governmental agency
or official required by law to provide for and effect publication of such
legal notice or notices required by law to be published, also to make
publication of such notice or notices, not to exceed three (3) times
within any continuous period of twenty-one (21) days, and to incur the
cost thereof at charges regularly made for the publication of classified
advertising, in any highway or construction trade journal or magazine
published not less often than biweekly, and having general state-wide
circulation within not less than three-fourths (3/4) of the counties of the
state, whenever in the judgment of such agency or official state-wide
publicity for the subject matter of such notice or notices is deemed to
be to the possible advantage of the affected state or local governmental
agency in the more economical or efficient procurement or
performance of the property, supplies, work, service or other public
project which is the subject matter of such notice or notices; provided,
expressly, that such authority shall be discretionary and not required or
mandatory upon any governmental agency or official.
Formerly: Acts 1973, P.L.32, SEC.1. As amended by
P.L.136-2018, SEC.27.