Press Democrat v. Sonoma County Herald Recorder

“[C]ertain legal notices—such as probate and foreclosure notices—‘must... be published in a newspaper of general circulation ....’” (In re Establishment of Eureka Reporter (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 891, 895 [ 81 Cal.Rptr.3d 497 ].) Government Code section 6000 1 defines a “ ‘newspaper of general circulation’ ” as “a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, which has a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers, and has been established, printed and published at regular intervals in the State, county, or city where publication, notice by publication, or official advertising is to be given or made for at least one year preceding the date of the publication, notice or advertisement.”

Section 6006 2 creates a narrow exemption to section 6000’s requirement that a newspaper must be printed in the place of publication. Pursuant to section 6006, a newspaper may qualify as a “newspaper of general circulation” without being printed in the “place of publication” if the newspaper “met all the requirements to qualify as an established newspaper of general circulation before 1923 and has continued to meet all…