An act relating to counties and county officers, the official text

1                         STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 2025               By: Pae

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6                               AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to counties and county officers;

    amending 25 O.S. 2021, Section 103, which relates to

8   sufficiency of publication of legal notices;

    permitting online publication of legal notices

9   published by counties; requiring certain placement on

    website; and providing an effective date.

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12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

13  SECTION 1.      AMENDATORY  25 O.S. 2021, Section 103, is

14 amended to read as follows:

15  Section 103. A. It shall not be necessary to publish a legal

16 notice, when published in a daily newspaper or in a semiweekly

17 newspaper, in every issue thereof, but it shall be sufficient to

18 publish such notice one (1) day each week during the required period

19 of publication. Said one (1) day of publishing legal notice each

20 week may be any day of the week in which the newspaper is published

21 but the said legal notice must appear in said newspaper on the same

22 day each week during the required period of publication as it was

23 originally published.

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1   B. Legal notices, within the meaning of this act, shall include

2 all notices, the publication of which is provided for by some law of

3 the State of Oklahoma.

4   C. It shall be sufficient for county governments to post legal

5 notices to their public website, if available, for any legal notice

6 that has a statutory requirement of newspaper publication. Legal

7 notices shall be displayed for the same required period of

8 publication as for legal notices in newspaper publication. Legal

9 notices shall be located on a dedicated webpage for legal notices

10 and shall be easily identifiable and accessible from the county

11 website homepage.

12  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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