§6-8-60. Designation of newspaper for publication of notice; publication requirements.

(a) The party in interest or at whose instance the publication of notice is to be given by advertisement in a newspaper may designate the newspaper in which such advertisement shall be made. If the officer charged with the duty of making the advertisement disregards such designation and makes advertisement in some other paper, he or she must pay the cost thereof and shall not be entitled to reimbursement.

(b) All publications required by any law, mortgage, or other contract to be published in a newspaper must be published in any newspaper printed in the English language which has a general circulation in the county, regardless of where the paper is printed, if the principal editorial office of the newspaper is located within the county and which newspaper shall have been mailed under the publication class mailing privilege of the United States Postal Service from the post office where it is published for at least 51 weeks a year. The newspaper shall, without additional charge, also upload legal notice publications to a statewide website established and maintained by an entity having the capacity and ability to receive and upload notices from a majority of newspapers in this state. Any newspaper which also publishes a website in its own name shall also post legal notice publications on an Internet website published by the newspaper without additional charge.

Code 1876, §§553, 3970; Code 1886, §663; Code 1896, §3040; Code 1907, §5181; Code 1923, §9257; Acts 1935, No. 370, p. 791; Code 1940, T. 7, §713; Acts 1955, No. 551, p. 1207; Acts 1961, No. 566, p. 667; Acts 1963, No. 458, p. 990; Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 395, p. 534; Acts 1971, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 131, p. 212; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 262, p. 4531; Act 2012-214, p. 387, §1.)