USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 19 - MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS RELATED TO GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Chapter : CHAPTER 238 - LEGAL NOTICES AND ADVERTISEMENTS
Any
notice or other written matter whatsoever, required to be published in a
newspaper by any law of this State, or by the order of any court of
record in this State, shall be deemed and held to be a legal notice or
advertisement within the meaning of NRS 238.010 to 238.080 ,
inclusive.
[1:60:1925; NCL § 4700]
1. Every newspaper printed and published daily, or daily except
Sundays and legal holidays, or which shall be printed and published on
each of any 5 days in every week excepting legal holidays and including
or excluding Sundays, shall be considered and held to be and to have been
a daily newspaper within the meaning of NRS 238.010 to 238.080 ,
inclusive.
2. Every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals
three times each week shall be considered and held to be a triweekly
newspaper within the meaning of NRS 238.010 to 238.080 ,
inclusive.
3. Every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals
twice each week shall be considered and held to be a semiweekly newspaper
within the meaning of NRS 238.010 to
238.080 , inclusive.
4. Every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals once
each week shall be considered and held to be a weekly newspaper within
the meaning of NRS 238.010 to 238.080
, inclusive.
5. Every newspaper printed and published at regular intervals, two
times each month, shall be considered a semimonthly newspaper within the
meaning of NRS 238.010 to 238.080
, inclusive.
[2:60:1925; A 1943, 56; 1943 NCL § 4701]
1. Any and all legal notices or advertisements shall be published
only in a daily, a triweekly, a semiweekly, a semimonthly, or a weekly
newspaper of general circulation and printed in whole or in part in the
county in which the notice or advertisement is required to be published,
which newspaper if published:
(a) Triweekly, semiweekly, semimonthly, or weekly, shall have been
so published in the county, continuously and uninterruptedly, during the
period of at least 104 consecutive weeks next prior to the first issue
thereof containing any such notice or advertisement.
(b) Daily, shall have been so published in the county,
uninterruptedly and continuously, during the period of at least 1 year
next prior to the first issue thereof containing any such notice or
advertisement.
2. The mere change in the name of any newspaper, or the removal of
the principal business office or seat of publication of any newspaper
from one place to another in the same county shall not break or affect
the continuity in the publication of any such newspaper if the same is in
fact continuously and uninterruptedly printed and published within the
county as herein provided.
3. A newspaper shall not lose its rights as a legal publication if
any of the following conditions maintain:
(a) If by reason of a strike or other good cause it should suspend
publication; but the period shall not exceed 30 days in any calendar year.
(b) If by reason of generally recognized economic stress of a
serious nature over which the publisher has no control it shall be
necessary to suspend publication for a period not to exceed 2 years. The
provisions of this paragraph shall apply only in the case of publications
that have been operating continuously for a period of 5 years prior to
such suspension. Any legal notice which fails of publication for the
required number of insertions for such reason shall not be declared
illegal if publication has been made in one issue of the publication and
is resumed within a reasonable period.
4. If in any county in this State there shall not have been
published therein any newspaper or newspapers for the prescribed period,
at the time when any such notice or advertisement is required to be
published, then such notice or advertisement may be published in any
newspaper or newspapers having a general circulation and printed and
published in whole or in part in the county.
5. The time limitations in subsection 1 do not apply to a newly
established newspaper printed and published in:
(a) An incorporated city if, at the time such newspaper is
established, there is no other newspaper printed and published in such
city.
(b) A county if, at the time such newspaper is established, there
is no other newspaper printed and published in such county.
[3:60:1925; A 1931, 89; 1933, 192; 1941, 400; 1943, 56; 1943 NCL §
4702]—(NRS A 1960, 400)
After December 31, 1954, no newspaper is competent as the
means for the publication of any legal notice or advertisement unless the
newspaper possesses and maintains in force a valid second-class mailing
permit issued by the United States Postal Service.
[Part 4:60:1925; A 1953, 309]—(NRS A 1987, 706)
Except as otherwise provided by law in express terms or by necessary
implication, daily newspapers, triweekly newspapers, semiweekly
newspapers, semimonthly newspapers and weekly newspapers shall all be
equally competent as the means for the publication of all legal notices
and advertisements.
[Part 4:60:1925; A 1953, 309]
Whenever any notice is required by law to be
given by publication, unless otherwise specified, such provision shall be
satisfied by publishing the required notice at least once a week,
consecutively, for not less than the full period of time so required in a
qualified, legal and competent newspaper.
[1:215:1949; 1943 NCL § 4704.01]
1. All advertising ordered or required by the State of Nevada or
by the respective counties of the State must be paid for by the State or
the county ordering or requiring the advertising at a rate that does not
exceed:
(a) The published open display rate for advertising, if the
advertisement is placed in a daily or weekly newspaper with a circulation
of 15,000 or less; or
(b) The published rate for advertising by a nonprofit or charitable
organization, if the advertisement is placed in a daily or weekly
newspaper with a circulation of more than 15,000.
2. The type size for advertising ordered or required by the State
of Nevada or a county must be no smaller than that used by the newspaper
in the columns of classified advertisements.
3. Nothing contained in this section prohibits boards of county
commissioners from entering into annual contracts for the entire official
printing and advertising of their respective counties when a saving of
public money will be effected thereby.
[1:79:1897; A 1949, 154; 1943 NCL § 269]—(NRS A 1963, 453; 1971,
627; 1975, 1397; 1989, 572)
Any and
every legal notice or advertisement published in a newspaper in violation
of any of the provisions of NRS 238.010
to 238.080 , inclusive, shall be
absolutely void.
[5:60:1925; NCL § 4704]
USE OF REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL
Any notice or other written matter required by
law or the order of any court of record to be delivered by mail, with the
receipt thereof to be acknowledged, may be given by either registered or
certified mail.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 95)
USE OF MAIL FOR FILING AND PAYMENT
1. Except as provided in subsections 2 and 4, or by specific
statute, any document or payment required or permitted by law or
regulation to be filed or made by mailing to the State or any of its
agencies or political subdivisions shall be deemed filed or made on the
date of the postmark dated by the post office on the envelope in which it
was mailed.
2. If a document or payment was mailed but not received by the
addressee or was received but the postmarked date is illegible or
omitted, the document or payment shall be deemed filed or made on the
date it was mailed, if the sender:
(a) Establishes by a postal receipt for registered or certified
mail that the mailing date was on or before the required date for filing
or payment; and
(b) Where the document or payment was not received, files a
duplicate of the contents of the envelope within 15 days after he becomes
aware that it was not received.
3. For the purposes of this section, if the required date for
filing or making payment is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the
filing or payment is timely if performed on the next day which is not a
Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.
4. This section does not apply to the filing of documents pursuant
to NRS 225.085 or title 24 of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 751; A 1983, 1382; 2003, 1953 )
