California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - General

• Section 6000.
  A “newspaper of general circulation” is a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, which has...
• Section 6001.
  A newspaper devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race, or denomination, or for...
• Section 6002.
  For a newspaper to be “established,” it shall have been in existence under a specified name during the whole of the one-year period; provided, however,...
• Section 6003.
  For a newspaper to be “printed,” the mechanical work of producing it, that is the work of typesetting and impressing type on paper, shall have...
• Section 6004.
  For a newspaper to be “published,” it shall have been issued from the place where it is printed and sold to or circulated among the...
• Section 6004.5.
  In order to qualify as a newspaper of general circulation the newspaper, if either printed or published in a town or city, shall be both...
• Section 6005.
  “Printed” and “published” are not synonymous. Each relates to separate acts or functions necessary to constitute a newspaper of general circulation.(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch.
• Section 6006.
  Nothing in this chapter alters the standing of any newspaper which, prior to the passage of Chapter 258 of the Statutes of 1923, was an...
• Section 6007.
  The status of a newspaper of general circulation remains unchanged in the event that the publication of the newspaper is discontinued by reason of economic...
• Section 6008.
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a newspaper is a “newspaper of general circulation” if it meets all of the following criteria:(1) It is...

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