45-1-101 - Legal notice publication requirements. - Utah Statutes

45-1-101. Legal notice publication requirements.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Legal notice" means:
(i) a communication required to be made public by a state statute or state agency rule; or
(ii) a notice required for judicial proceedings or by judicial decision.
(b) "Legal notice" does not include a public notice published by a public body inaccordance with the provisions of Sections 52-4-202 and 63F-1-701.
(2) (a) Notwithstanding any other legal notice provision established in this Utah Code, aperson required to publish legal notice:
(i) until January 1, 2010, shall publish as required by the statute establishing the legalnotice requirement; and
(ii) beginning on January 1, 2010, shall publish legal notice:
(A) as required by the statute establishing the legal notice requirement; and
(B) on a website established by the collective efforts of Utah's newspapers.
(b) A person's publishing legal notice as required under Subsection (2)(a) does notrelieve the person from complying with an otherwise applicable requirement under Title 52,Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act.
(3) Beginning on January 1, 2012, notwithstanding any provision of law requiringpublication of legal notice in a newspaper, a person who publishes legal notice that is required tobe given in a county of the first or second class:
(a) is not required to comply with the requirement to publish legal notice in a newspaper;
(b) is required to publish legal notice on the website described in Subsection(2)(a)(ii)(B); and
(c) may, in addition to complying with Subsection (3)(b), publish legal notice in anewspaper.
(4) The website described in Subsection (2)(a)(ii)(B) may not:
(a) charge a fee to publish a legal notice on the website before January 1, 2012; and
(b) charge more than $10 to publish a legal notice on the website on or after January 1,2012.

Amended by Chapter 90, 2010 General Session
Amended by Chapter 254, 2010 General Session