§ 70-A — Fees to be paid by public officers for public advertisements

§ 70-a. Fees to be paid by public officers for public advertisements.\nThe charge for the publication of concurrent resolutions, proposed\nconstitutional amendments, propositions or questions to be submitted to\nthe voters of the state, tax sales and official notices required to be\npublished by state boards, commissions or officers in newspapers of the\nstate, shall be paid from the treasury on the audit and warrant of the\ncomptroller, after certification by the proper officer that such a\npublication has been regularly made as prescribed by law. The charge for\nthe publication, if authorized by law, of digests of laws of a local\nnature in the newspaper designated to publish such digests shall be paid\nby the several counties of the state in which such laws may be\npublished, upon like certification. The charge for the publication of\nconcurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions\nor questions to be submitted to the voters of the state or of any\npolitical subdivision thereof or therein, tax sales by the state or any\ncounty or municipality therein, and of all official notices and\nadvertisements authorized or required by law to be published at the\nexpense of the state or of a county, city, town, village, public\nauthority, public benefit corporation or other political or civil\nsubdivision of the state, shall be at the rate of twenty-nine cents per\nline of a column width not less than ten pica ems, provided that in\ncomputing such charge per line the line shall average at least five\nwords for each insertion in newspapers having less than two thousand\nfive hundred circulation; twenty-nine and one-half cents per line for\nnewspapers having two thousand five hundred or more circulation and less\nthan five thousand; thirty and one-half cents per line for newspapers\nhaving five thousand or more circulation and less than seven thousand\nand five hundred; thirty-one and one-half cents per line for newspapers\nhaving seven thousand five hundred or more circulation and less than ten\nthousand; thirty-two and one-half cents per line for newspapers having\nten thousand or more circulation and less than fifteen thousand; and\nthree and one-half cents per line in addition to the thirty-two and\none-half cents for the initial fifteen thousand circulation, for each\nadditional five thousand circulation up to thirty-five thousand\ncirculation and one and one-half cents per line for each additional five\nthousand possessed by such newspapers. To all of the above rates nine\ncents per line shall be added to the initial insertion charge of each\nseparate advertisement. To all of the above rates for the initial\ninsertion eight cents per line shall also be added for tabular matter or\nintricate composition. Display advertising shall be charged agate\nmeasurement, fourteen lines to each inch, ten to thirteen pica ems wide,\ndepending on the makeup of the newspaper publishing such copy. Every\nnewspaper printed, published or having its principal office outside of a\ncity having a population of over three hundred fifty thousand\ninhabitants, as a condition precedent to designation as the official\nnewspaper of any county, city, town, village or other political or civil\nsubdivision of the state or for the making of claim for compensation\nunder the foregoing provisions of this section, must be established at\nleast one year and entered in the post office as second class matter.\n This rate shall not apply to any newspaper printed, principally\ncirculated or having its principal office in the counties of New York or\nBronx within the first judicial district or in the county of Kings\nwithin the second judicial district or in the county of Richmond within\nthe thirteenth judicial district or in the county of Nassau within the\ntenth judicial district or in the county of Queens within the eleventh\njudicial district or in the county of Westchester within the ninth\njudicial district or in any city having a population of over one hundred\nseventy-five thousand inhabitants within the seventh and eighth judicial\ndistricts, where the rate for such publication may be equal to, but\nshall not exceed, the regularly established classified advertising rate\nof such newspapers. In reckoning line charges allowance shall be made\nfor date lines, paragraph endings, titles, signatures, and similar short\nlines as full lines where the same are set to conform to the usual rules\nof composition. Every newspaper printed, published or having its\nprincipal office outside of a city having a population of over three\nhundred fifty thousand inhabitants designated for the publication of\nconcurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions\nor questions to be submitted to the voters of the state and making claim\nfor compensation must be established at least one year, entered in the\npost office as second class matter and be printed and published in the\ntown, village or city or its post office address and except newspapers\ndesignated, printed, published and having their principal offices in a\ncity having a population of more than three hundred fifty thousand\ninhabitants, shall attach to such claim an affidavit of the circulation\nof such newspaper for the six months period ending March thirty-first or\nSeptember thirtieth immediately preceding, which shall be used as the\nbasis of circulation rating. Papers printed, published and having their\nprincipal offices outside a city having a population of more than three\nhundred fifty thousand inhabitants shall accept the minimum rate per\nline until such time as they establish to the satisfaction of the state\ncomptroller sufficient circulation to entitle them to a higher rate. It\nshall be the duty of each board of supervisors in the several counties\nof the state, in making out the assessment rolls, to assess and levy on\nthe taxable property of the county whose representatives they are, such\nsums as shall be sufficient to defray the expense of publishing the\ndigest of laws of a local nature, if such publication be authorized,\napplicable only to the county affected, in the newspaper designated.\nNotwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, any\npublication which was designated and publishing notice as an official\nnewspaper prior to the year nineteen hundred forty and continued to be\nso designated and publishing for at least thirty years after such year,\nwhich has been designated for the publication of concurrent resolutions,\nproposed constitutional amendments, propositions or questions to be\nsubmitted to the voters of the state, may make claim for compensation\npursuant to the provisions of this section.\n