HB 534 — AN ACT relating to required publications.

UNOFFICIALCHAPTER COPY27 231 RSCHAPTER 27 ( HB 534/GA534 ) AN ACT relating to required publications.

Publication of an advertisement shall be Page 1 of 8 HB053410.100 - 1724 - XXXX 3/7/2023 6:37 PM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS HB 534/GA deemed to have occurred on the date the advertisement is posted on the local government's notice website[Web site].

2.[(b)]2.[(b)]Be Be published within ten (10) days of the alternative posting on the notice website[Web site] when the purpose of the posting is to inform the public of a completed act, including those acts specified in KRS 424.130(1)(a), or within three (3) days of the posting when the purpose of the posting is to inform the public of the right to take a certain action, including the events specified in KRS 424.130(1)(b) and (d);

and 4.[(d)]4.[(d)]Provide Provide the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the notice website[Web site] address and the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the address where the full advertisement may be directly viewed along with a telephone number for the local government.

Legislative Research Commission PDF Version ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (b) A local government may, alternatively, publish an advertisement one (1) time providing notice that the public may view the full advertisement on the notice website in a digital newspaper that meets the qualifications discussed in Section 2 of this Act, so long as the advertisement complies with Page 2 of 8 HB053410.100 - 1724 - XXXX 3/7/2023 6:37 PM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS HB 534/GA subparagraphs 2., 3., and 4.

(7) The local government shall provide a conspicuous statement on its notice website[Web site] that individuals who have difficulty in accessing the contents of Page 3 of 8 HB053410.100 - 1724 - XXXX 3/7/2023 6:37 PM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS HB 534/GA posted advertisements may contact the local government for information regarding alternative methods of accessing advertisements, which shall include the telephone number of the local government.

A newspaper shall be deemed to Page 4 of 8 HB053410.100 - 1724 - XXXX 3/7/2023 6:37 PM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS HB 534/GA be published in the area if it maintains its principal office in the area for the purpose of gathering news and soliciting advertisements and other general business of newspaper publications, and has a periodicals class mailing permit issued for that office.

A newspaper shall be deemed to be of regular issue if it is published at least once a week, for at least fifty (50) weeks during CHAPTER 27 3 the calendar year as prescribed by its mailing permit, and has been so published in the area for the immediately preceding two (2) year period.

and (c) It shall bear a title or name, consist of not less than four (4) pages without a cover, and be of a type to which the general public resorts for passing events of a political, religious, commercial, and social nature, and for current happenings, announcements, miscellaneous reading matter, advertisements, Page 5 of 8 HB053410.100 - 1724 - XXXX 3/7/2023 6:37 PM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS HB 534/GA and other notices.

(b) If, in any county there is no newspaper meeting the requirements of this section for publishing advertisements for that county, any advertisements required to be published for the county or for any publication area within the county shall be published in a newspaper of the largest bona fide circulation Page 6 of 8 HB053410.100 - 1724 - XXXX 3/7/2023 6:37 PM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS HB 534/GA in that county published in and qualified to publish advertisements for an adjoining county in Kentucky.

ForLegislative purposesResearch ofCommission satisfyingPDF publicationVersion requirementsACTS ofOF thisTHE chapter,GENERAL anASSEMBLY PageFor 7purposes of 8satisfying HB053410.100publication -requirements 1724of -this XXXXchapter, 3/7/2023an 6:37 PM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS HB 534/GA advertisement is deemed to be published on the date that it is posted on the website of the digital newspaper.

PageSigned 8by ofGovernor 8March HB053410.10020, -2023. 1724 - XXXX 3/7/2023 6:37 PM GA