HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 109 FILED ON: 1/9/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1723
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Smitty Pignatelli
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers.
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: | Date Added: |
Smitty Pignatelli | 3rd Berkshire | 1/9/2023 |
Lindsay N. Sabadosa | 1st Hampshire | 1/19/2023 |
Brian W. Murray | 10th Worcester | 1/25/2023 |
Patricia A. Duffy | 5th Hampden | 2/22/2023 |
Samantha Montaño | 15th Suffolk | 2/27/2023 |
James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester | 3/4/2023 |
Michelle L. Ciccolo | 15th Middlesex | 3/16/2023 |
Carmine Lawrence Gentile | 13th Middlesex | 10/5/2023 |
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 109 FILED ON: 1/9/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1723
By Representative Pignatelli of Lenox, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1723) of Smitty Pignatelli and others relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers. The Judiciary. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b) of section 13 of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- Provided further, that for an online-only newspaper that does not maintain a print publication, publication on its own website and on a statewide website shall satisfy the publication requirement.
SECTION 2. Subsection (d) of said section 13 of said chapter 4, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- For an online-only newspaper, an error in a legal notice published on the online-only newspaper's website or the statewide website that is the result of (1) an error of the website operator; or (2) a temporary website outage or service interruption that prevents the publication or display of a legal notice on the website, shall not constitute a defect in publication of the legal notice; provided, however, that the legal notice appears correctly on either the online-only newspaper's website or the statewide website, and satisfies all other legal notice requirements.