Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §601, as amended by PL 1997, c. 405, §1, is further amended to read:

§601. Publication of legal notices and advertising

To be qualified as a medium for the publication of legal notices, legal advertising and other matter required by law to be published in a newspaper, a newspaper, unless otherwise ordered by the court in the proceedings, must be printed in the English language; must be entered as 2nd class postal matter in the United States mails; and must have general circulation in the vicinity where the notice is required to be published. Any legal notice, legal advertising or other matter required by law to be published in a newspaper must appear in all editions of that newspaper.

SUMMARY

This bill removes the requirement that a newspaper be mailed as 2nd-class postal matter in the United States mails in order to qualify as a medium for the publication of legal notices and legal advertising.