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1     AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Notice By Publication Act is amended by
5 changing Section 5 and by adding Section 11 as follows:
 
6     (715 ILCS 5/5)  (from Ch. 100, par. 5)
7     Sec. 5. When any notice is required by law or contract to
8 be published in a newspaper (unless otherwise expressly
9 provided in the contract), it shall be intended to be in a
10 secular newspaper of general circulation, published in the
11 city, town or county, or some newspaper specially authorized by
12 law to publish legal notices, in the city, town, or county.
13 Unless otherwise expressly provided in the contract, the term
14 "newspaper" means a newspaper
15     (a) which consists of not less than 4 pages of printed
16 matter and contains at least 100 130 square inches of printed
17 matter per page; and
18     (b) which is printed through the use of one of the
19 conventional and generally recognized printing processes such
20 as letterpress, lithography or gravure; and
21     (c) which annually averages at least 25% news content per
22 issue; or which annually averages at least 1,000 column inches
23 of news content per issue, the term "news content" meaning for

 

 

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1 the purposes of this Act any printed matter other than
2 advertising; and
3     (d) which publishes miscellaneous reading matter, legal or
4 other announcements and notices, and news and information
5 concerning current happenings and passing events of a
6 political, social, religious, commercial, financial or legal
7 nature, and advertisements or bulletins; and
8     (e) which has been continuously published at regular
9 intervals of at least once each week with a minimum of 50
10 issues per year, for at least one year prior to the first
11 publication of the notice; or which is a successor to a
12 newspaper as herein defined with no interruption of publication
13 of more than 30 days; or which is a merged or consolidated
14 newspaper formed by the merger or consolidation of two or more
15 newspapers, one of which has been continuously published at
16 regular intervals of at least once each week with a minimum of
17 50 issues per year, for at least one year prior to the first
18 publication of the notice. A newspaper shall be considered as
19 continuously or regularly published although its publication
20 has been suspended, where such suspension was caused by fire or
21 an Act of God or by a labor dispute or by its owner, publisher,
22 managing editor or other essential employee entering the active
23 military service of the United States, if the newspaper was
24 continuously or regularly published for at least one year prior
25 to its suspension and if its publication is resumed at any time
26 not later than 12 months after such fire or Act of God, or if

 

 

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1 its publication is resumed at any time within 12 months after
2 the termination of the labor dispute, or if its publication is
3 resumed at any time within 12 months after the termination of
4 the war in connection with which such persons entered such
5 military service.
6 (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1494.)
 
7     (715 ILCS 5/11 new)
8     Sec. 11. Applicability. Any notice published prior to the
9 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
10 Assembly and in compliance with the provisions of this
11 amendatory Act shall be legal and valid for all purposes.
 
12     Section 10. The Newspaper Legal Notice Act is amended by
13 changing Section 1 and by adding Section 3 as follows:
 
14     (715 ILCS 10/1)  (from Ch. 100, par. 10)
15     Sec. 1.
16     Whenever it is required by law that any legal notice or
17 publication shall be published in a newspaper in this State, it
18 shall be held to mean a newspaper
19     (a) which consists of not less than 4 pages of printed
20 matter and contains at least 100 130 square inches of printed
21 matter per page; and
22     (b) which is printed through the use of one of the
23 conventional and generally recognized printing processes such

 

 

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1 as letterpress, lithography or gravure; and
2     (c) which annually averages at least 25% news content per
3 issue; or which annually averages at least 1,000 column inches
4 of news content per issue, the term "news content" meaning for
5 the purposes of this Act any printed matter other than
6 advertising; and
7     (d) which publishes miscellaneous reading matter, legal or
8 other announcements and notices, and news and information
9 concerning current happenings and passing events of a
10 political, social, religious, commercial, financial or legal
11 nature, and advertisements or bulletins; and
12     (e) which has been continuously published at regular
13 intervals of at least once each week with a minimum of 50
14 issues per year, for at least one year prior to the first
15 publication of the notice; or which is a successor to a
16 newspaper as herein defined with no interruption of publication
17 of more than 30 days; or which is a merged or consolidated
18 newspaper formed by the merger or consolidation of two or more
19 newspapers, one of which has been continuously published at
20 regular intervals of at least once each week with a minimum of
21 50 issues per year for at least one year prior to the first
22 publication of the notice. A newspaper shall be considered as
23 continuously or regularly published although its publication
24 has been suspended, where such suspension was caused by fire or
25 an Act of God or by a labor dispute or by its owner, publisher,
26 managing editor or other essential employee entering the active

 

 

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1 military service of the United States, if the newspaper was
2 continuously or regularly published for at least one year prior
3 to its suspension and if its publication is resumed at any time
4 not later than 12 months after such fire or Act of God, or if
5 its publication is resumed at any time within 12 months after
6 the termination of the labor dispute, or if its publication is
7 resumed at any time within 12 months after the termination of
8 the war in connection with which such persons entered such
9 military service.
10 (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1496.)
 
11     (715 ILCS 10/3 new)
12     Sec. 3. Applicability. Any notice published prior to the
13 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
14 Assembly and in compliance with the provisions of this
15 amendatory Act shall be legal and valid for all purposes.
 
16     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
17 becoming law.