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PART I. PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Chapter 1. General Provisions

• § 101.  Definitions.
  (a) Definitions applicable to printing or newspaper advertising laws.--Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent provisions of this title which are applicable to specific provisions ...

Chapter 3. Legal Advertising

• § 301.  Short title of chapter.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Newspaper Advertising Act." ...
• § 302.  Scope and interpretation of chapter.
  The provisions of this chapter are intended to be a comprehensive statute: (1) Creating uniformity in the publication of legal notices, official advertisements, and advertisements, ...
• § 303.  Level of advertising rates.
  (a) General rule.--All official and legal advertising shall be charged for at an established or declared rate or price per single column, line of reading ...
• § 304.  Establishment and change of advertising rates.
  All newspapers of general circulation, official newspapers and legal newspapers accepting and publishing official and legal advertising, are hereby required to fix and establish rates ...
• § 305.  Charges taxable as costs and administration expenses.
  Except as otherwise provided by general rule, all charges, costs, and expenses incurred, including the fees for affidavits to proofs of publication, for official and ...
• § 306.  Use of trade publications.
  (a) General rule.--Any government unit which is required by law to advertise for bids for public works, contracts, supplies or equipment, may, in its discretion, ...
• § 307.  Effect of failure to advertise when required.
  No legal proceeding, matter, or case in which notice is required to be given by official or legal advertising, shall be binding and effective upon ...
• § 308.  Additional publication in legal journals.
  (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by statute, every notice or advertisement required by law or rule of court to be published in one or ...
• § 309.  Inclusion of common geographical names.
  (a) General rule.--Whenever official advertising or legal advertising involves a road, street, highway, bridge, municipality, village or boundary, the advertisement shall, in order that it ...
• § 310.  No unauthorized advertisements to be published.
  No advertisement shall be published by any court or other government unit, which is not duly authorized by law, nor in more papers than so ...

PART II. PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF
COMMONWEALTH DOCUMENTS
Chapter 5. General Provisions

• § 501.  Definitions.
  Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent provisions of this part which are applicable to specific provisions of this part, the following words and phrases ...
• § 502.  Joint Committee on Documents.
  (a) Establishment.--The Joint Committee on Documents shall consist of five governmental members and two public members. The governmental members shall be the Attorney General, the ...
• § 503.  General administration of part.
  Subject to the provisions of section 732 (relating to required contractual arrangements), the manner in which the code, the permanent supplements thereto, and the bulletin, ...
• § 504.  Payment for documents.
  Payments for documents published by authority of this part shall be made to the Department of General Services, which shall pay the same into the ...
• § 505.  Distribution of publication expenses.
  (a) General rule.--In order to reimburse the Legislative Reference Bureau for the cost of administering this part and in order to reimburse the Department of ...
• § 506.  Judicial notice.
  The contents of the code, of the permanent supplements thereto, and of the bulletin, shall be judicially noticed. ...
• § 507.  Form of citation.
  Without prejudice to any other mode of citation the code and permanent supplements thereto may be cited by title and section number, and the bulletin ...
• § 508.  Effect of future legislation.
  No subsequent statute shall be held to supersede or modify the provisions of this part except to the extent that such statute shall do so ...
• § 509.  Format of documents.
  The agency text of all documents required to be deposited with the Legislative Reference Bureau by this part shall be in such form and format ...

Chapter 7. Codification and Publication of Documents
Subchapter A. Codification of Regulations and Other
Documents

• § 701.  Official codification created.
  It shall be the duty of the Legislative Reference Bureau, subject to the policy supervision and direction of the joint committee, to compile, edit and ...
• § 702.  Contents of Pennsylvania Code.
  Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee, the following documents shall be codified in the code: (1) All proclamations and executive ...

Subchapter B. Publication of Documents

• § 721.  Publication of official codification.
  It shall be the duty of the Legislative Reference Bureau, subject to the policy supervision and direction of the joint committee, to arrange through the ...
• § 722.  Deposit of documents required.
  (a) General rule.--Two duplicate original copies, certified by the executive officer, chairman or secretary of the agency, or by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts ...
• § 723.  Processing of deposited documents.
  (a) Review of deposited text.--The bureau, or a qualified contractor selected by the bureau with the approval of the joint committee, may review any or ...
• § 724.  Preliminary publication in Pennsylvania Bulletin.
  (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (c), all documents required or authorized by section 702 (relating to contents of Pennsylvania Code) to be codified ...
• § 725.  Additional contents of Pennsylvania Bulletin.
  (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee the following documents, if not otherwise required to be published by this ...
• § 726.  Permanent supplements to Pennsylvania Code.
  (a) General rule.--At least once each year all documents required or authorized pursuant to section 702 (relating to contents of Pennsylvania Code) to be codified ...
• § 727.  Matter not required to be published.
  Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee, whenever a document incorporates by reference any portion of the text of any of ...
• § 728.  Matter not permitted to be published.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part no press release, speech, or other unofficial comments or news material shall be published in the code, the ...
• § 729.  Publication of individual documents.
  (a) General rule.--The code and the permanent supplements thereto shall be published pursuant to typographical and contractual arrangements which shall ensure to every agency and ...
• § 730.  Pricing and distribution of published documents.
  The prices to be charged for individual copies of and subscriptions to the code, the permanent supplements thereto and the bulletin, for reprints and bound ...
• § 731.  Automatic subscriptions.
  Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee, whenever the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the Department of Banking, the Insurance Department or ...
• § 732.  Required contractual arrangements.
  (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by statute finally enacted after July 1, 1969 applicable to public printing and binding generally: (1) the code; (2) ...

Chapter 9. Effectiveness of Documents

• § 901.  Official text of published documents.
  (a) General rule.--The official text, as published as provided in Subchapter B of Chapter 7 (relating to publication of documents), of any document required or ...
• § 902.  Certification of official text.
  Each title or part of the code and each permanent supplement thereto shall contain a certificate by the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau that ...
• § 903.  Effective date of documents.
  No otherwise valid document which is required by or pursuant to this part or by any other provision of law to be published under this ...
• § 904.  Constructive notice.
  Unless otherwise specifically provided by statute other than a provision of this title, the publication under this part of any document required or authorized by ...
• § 905.  Presumptions created.
  The publication in the code, the permanent supplements thereto, or the bulletin of any document shall create a rebuttable presumption: (1) That it was duly ...
• § 906.  Reasonable notice of hearing.
  Whenever notice of hearing or of opportunity to be heard is required or authorized to be given by the Commonwealth government by or under any ...
• § 907.  Additional notice unnecessary.
  (a) General rule.--Except with respect to the time specified for the publication of notice, the publication by the Commonwealth government of any notice in the ...

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