Whenever any official advertising, notice, resolution, order, or other matter of any nature whatsoever is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such publication shall be made only in a newspaper of general circulation.
Cal. Gov. Code § 6040
Publications
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 203 Cal. App. 2d 793 - Western States Newspapers, Inc. v. Gehringer (1962)
Most recently applied in 236 Cal. App. 4th 757 - Davis v. Sentinel Weekly News (May 2015)
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.