Amendment #319 to H4700

Supporting Local Online News Sources

Ms. Peisch of Wellesley moves to amend the bill by adding the following section:- “SECTION XXXX. Section 13 of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following paragraph:- “(e) A municipality required by a statute, ordinance, by-law or judicial order to publish a legal notice in a newspaper or newspaper of general circulation may also publish the legal notice on a community news website. For purposes of this paragraph, “community news website” shall mean a website substantially all of which is dedicated to local news coverage for the relevant municipality and surrounding municipalities that receives an average of not less then 1,500 unique visits per month.”

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Supporting Local Online News Sources