N.Y. Public Officers Law Section 70-A
Fees to be paid by public officers for public advertisements

The charge for the publication of concurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions or questions to be submitted to the voters of the state, tax sales and official notices required to be published by state boards, commissions or officers in newspapers of the state, shall be paid from the treasury on the audit and warrant of the comptroller, after certification by the proper officer that such a publication has been regularly made as prescribed by law. The charge for the publication, if authorized by law, of digests of laws of a local nature in the newspaper designated to publish such digests shall be paid by the several counties of the state in which such laws may be published, upon like certification. The charge for the publication of concurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions or questions to be submitted to the voters of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or therein, tax sales by the state or any county or municipality therein, and of all official notices and advertisements authorized or required by law to be published at the expense of the state or of a county, city, town, village, public authority, public benefit corporation or other political or civil subdivision of the state, shall be at the rate of twenty-nine cents per line of a column width not less than ten pica ems, provided that in computing such charge per line the line shall average at least five words for each insertion in newspapers having less than two thousand five hundred circulation; twenty-nine and one-half cents per line for newspapers having two thousand five hundred or more circulation and less than five thousand; thirty and one-half cents per line for newspapers having five thousand or more circulation and less than seven thousand and five hundred; thirty-one and one-half cents per line for newspapers having seven thousand five hundred or more circulation and less than ten thousand; thirty-two and one-half cents per line for newspapers having ten thousand or more circulation and less than fifteen thousand; and three and one-half cents per line in addition to the thirty-two and one-half cents for the initial fifteen thousand circulation, for each additional five thousand circulation up to thirty-five thousand circulation and one and one-half cents per line for each additional five thousand possessed by such newspapers. To all of the above rates nine cents per line shall be added to the initial insertion charge of each separate advertisement. To all of the above rates for the initial insertion eight cents per line shall also be added for tabular matter or intricate composition. Display advertising shall be charged agate measurement, fourteen lines to each inch, ten to thirteen pica ems wide, depending on the makeup of the newspaper publishing such copy. Every newspaper printed, published or having its principal office outside of a city having a population of over three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, as a condition precedent to designation as the official newspaper of any county, city, town, village or other political or civil subdivision of the state or for the making of claim for compensation under the foregoing provisions of this section, must be established at least one year and entered in the post office as second class matter. This rate shall not apply to any newspaper printed, principally circulated or having its principal office in the counties of New York or Bronx within the first judicial district or in the county of Kings within the second judicial district or in the county of Richmond within the thirteenth judicial district or in the county of Nassau within the tenth judicial district or in the county of Queens within the eleventh judicial district or in the county of Westchester within the ninth judicial district or in any city having a population of over one hundred seventy-five thousand inhabitants within the seventh and eighth judicial districts, where the rate for such publication may be equal to, but shall not exceed, the regularly established classified advertising rate of such newspapers. In reckoning line charges allowance shall be made for date lines, paragraph endings, titles, signatures, and similar short lines as full lines where the same are set to conform to the usual rules of composition. Every newspaper printed, published or having its principal office outside of a city having a population of over three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants designated for the publication of concurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions or questions to be submitted to the voters of the state and making claim for compensation must be established at least one year, entered in the post office as second class matter and be printed and published in the town, village or city or its post office address and except newspapers designated, printed, published and having their principal offices in a city having a population of more than three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, shall attach to such claim an affidavit of the circulation of such newspaper for the six months period ending March thirty-first or September thirtieth immediately preceding, which shall be used as the basis of circulation rating. Papers printed, published and having their principal offices outside a city having a population of more than three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants shall accept the minimum rate per line until such time as they establish to the satisfaction of the state comptroller sufficient circulation to entitle them to a higher rate. It shall be the duty of each board of supervisors in the several counties of the state, in making out the assessment rolls, to assess and levy on the taxable property of the county whose representatives they are, such sums as shall be sufficient to defray the expense of publishing the digest of laws of a local nature, if such publication be authorized, applicable only to the county affected, in the newspaper designated. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, any publication which was designated and publishing notice as an official newspaper prior to the year nineteen hundred forty and continued to be so designated and publishing for at least thirty years after such year, which has been designated for the publication of concurrent resolutions, proposed constitutional amendments, propositions or questions to be submitted to the voters of the state, may make claim for compensation pursuant to the provisions of this section.

Source: Section 70-A — Fees to be paid by public officers for public advertisements, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBO/70-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

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Official seals of court of appeals, governor and state departments, divisions and bureaus 61
Investigations by state officers 62
Business in public offices on public holidays 62‑A
Leave of absence for certain appointive state officers 63
Leave of absence for veterans on Memorial day and Veterans’ day 64
Payment of expenses of public officers 64‑A
Patent policy 66
Interchangeable use of gender neutral and gender specific titles of public offices 66‑A
Accident reports kept by police authorities to be open to the inspection of persons interested 67
Fees of public officers 67‑A
Fees for certification or exemplification 68
Allowance of additional fees and expenses 68‑A
Fees for oath or acknowledgment 69
Fee for administering certain official oaths prohibited 69‑A
Interest to be paid and collected on all deposits of public moneys amounting to one thousand dollars or more 70
Accounting for fees 70‑A
Fees to be paid by public officers for public advertisements 70‑B
Certificate on printed copies of laws 71
Vacations for employees of the state 72
Notices and reports of claims, suits or causes of action to be given to the attorney-general 72‑A
Penalty of officer for failure to execute mandate and make return 73
Business or professional activities by state officers and employees and party officers 73‑A
Financial disclosure 73‑B
Advertisements by elected government officials and candidates made with public funds 74
Code of ethics 74‑A
Duty of public officers regarding the physically handicapped 75
Bribery of members of the legislature 75‑A
Appearance by a person convicted of a crime of corruption 76
Receiving bribes by members of legislature 77
Unlawful fees and payments 77‑A
Members of the legislature liable to forfeiture of office 78
Certification of members, officers and employees 79
Fine in certain cases
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Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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