Section 600.1950 - Newspaper; definition.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.1950 Newspaper; definition.
Sec. 1950.
(1) The term “newspaper” is limited to a newspaper published in the English language for the dissemination of local or transmitted news and intelligence of a general character or for the dissemination of legal news, which has a bona fide list of paying subscribers or has been published at not less than weekly intervals in the same community without interruption for at least 2 years, and has been established, published, and circulated at not less than weekly intervals without interruption for at least 1 year in the county where the court is situated.
(2) If no newspaper so qualifies in the county where the court is situated, the term “newspaper” shall include any newspaper in an adjoining county which by this section is qualified to publish notice of actions commenced therein.
History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963