17-2-2.3. Content requirements. A legal newspaper shall contain reports of happenings of recent occurrences of a varied nature, such as political, social, moral, and religious subjects and miscellaneous reading matter, and for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices devote at least twenty-five percent of its total column space in at least one-half of its issues in any calendar year to such nonpaid news content. No more than eighty percent of the space devoted to such news content may duplicate any other publication, unless the duplicated material is from recognized general news services.
Source: SL 1985, ch 165, § 4.