North Dakota Code § 46-05-01

Newspapers qualified to do legal printing - File copies with state historical
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society - Publishing notices in adjoining county.
1. As used in this section:
a. "E-edition" means a digital facsimile of a newspaper print edition which is 
substantially the same in both format and content as the print edition.
b. "Publish" means the dissemination in the print edition of a qualified newspaper or 
in the newspaper's e-edition if it has one, or in both.
2. Before a newspaper in this state is qualified to publish a legal notice or a matter 
required by law to be printed or published in a newspaper in the state, or any public 
notice for a political subdivision within this state, the newspaper must:
a. Have been established in a regular and continuous circulation of at least one 
year, with a bona fide subscription list of at least one hundred fifty regular 
subscribers;
b. Be nonsectarian and printed in English; and
c. Have been admitted to the United States mails and have complied with the 
requirements of the federal laws governing periodicals mailing privileges for at 
least one year.
3. The owner or publisher of each legal newspaper shall send to the state historical 
society, to the address designated by the director, one copy of each print and e-edition 
issue of the newspaper. In a county in which no newspaper is published, a notice 
required by law to be published may be published in a newspaper published in an 
adjoining county and having a general circulation in the county.

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