Title 45, LEGAL NOTICES

All newspapers of general circulation, official newspapers and legal newspapers accepting and publishing official and legal advertising, are hereby required to fix and establish rates and charges for official, legal and all other kinds of advertising, offered or accepted for publ…

Except as otherwise provided by general rule, all charges, costs, and expenses incurred, including the fees for affidavits to proofs of publication, for official and legal advertising in any matter by any person shall be taxable, collectible and payable as other court costs and e…

(a) General rule.--Any government unit which is required by law to advertise for bids for public works, contracts, supplies or equipment, may, in its discretion, authorize the publication of such advertising, in addition to the newspapers authorized by the other provisions of thi…

No legal proceeding, matter, or case in which notice is required to be given by official or legal advertising, shall be binding and effective upon any interested person unless such official and legal advertising is printed and published in the newspapers of general circulation, o…

(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by statute, every notice or advertisement required by law or rule of court to be published in one or more newspapers of general circulation, unless dispensed with by special order of court, shall also be published in the legal newsp…

(a) General rule.--Whenever official advertising or legal advertising involves a road, street, highway, bridge, municipality, village or boundary, the advertisement shall, in order that it may readily be understood by inhabitants of the area involved, include the common, local or…

No advertisement shall be published by any court or other government unit, which is not duly authorized by law, nor in more papers than so authorized.

Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent provisions of this part which are applicable to specific provisions of this part, the following words and phrases when used in this part shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to the…

(a) Establishment.--The Joint Committee on Documents shall consist of nine governmental members and two public members. The governmental members shall be the General Counsel, the Attorney General, the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Director of the Pennsylvania …

Subject to the provisions of section 732 (relating to required contractual arrangements), the manner in which the code, the permanent supplements thereto, and the bulletin, shall be published, and all other matters with respect thereto not otherwise provided for in this part shal…

2014 Amendment. Section 504 was deleted by amendment September 24, 2014, P.L.2461, No.133, effective in 60 days.

(a) General rule.--In order to reimburse the Legislative Reference Bureau for the cost of administering this part and in order to reimburse the Department of General Services for the expenses of the joint committee and for the costs incurred in publication under Subchapter B of C…

The contents of the code, of the permanent supplements thereto, and of the bulletin, shall be judicially noticed.

Without prejudice to any other mode of citation the code and permanent supplements thereto may be cited by title and section number, and the bulletin may be cited by volume and page number.

No subsequent statute shall be held to supersede or modify the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240), referred to as the Commonwealth Documents Law, or this part except to the extent that such statute shall do so expressly. (Sept. 24, 2014, P.L.2461, No.133, eff. 60 days)

The agency text of all documents required to be deposited with the Legislative Reference Bureau by this part shall be in such form and format as may be prescribed by regulations promulgated by the joint committee. Cross References. Section 509 is referred to in section 722 of thi…

It shall be the duty of the Legislative Reference Bureau, subject to the policy supervision and direction of the joint committee, to compile, edit and supplement or to contract through the department for the compilation, editing and supplementation of an official legal codificati…

Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee, the following documents shall be codified in the code: (1) All proclamations and executive orders of the Governor which are general and permanent in nature. (2) All administrative and other regulation…

It shall be the duty of the Legislative Reference Bureau, subject to the policy supervision and direction of the joint committee, to arrange through the Department of General Services for the prompt publication of the code, the permanent supplements thereto and the bulletin, in t…

(a) General rule.--Two duplicate original copies, certified by the executive officer, chairman or secretary of the agency, or by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts or the clerk or prothonotary of the Supreme Court, in the case of a judicial document, of any document…

(a) Review of deposited text.--The bureau, or a qualified contractor selected by the bureau with the approval of the joint committee, may review any or all documents deposited with the bureau before they are released for publication, and may prepare in active cooperation with an …

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (c), all documents required or authorized by section 702 (relating to contents of Pennsylvania Code) to be codified in the code, and all other documents required or authorized by section 725 (relating to additional contents of P…

(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee the following documents, if not otherwise required to be published by this part, shall be published in the bulletin: (1) All proclamations and executive orders of the Governor, excep…

(a) General rule.--At least once each year all documents required or authorized pursuant to section 702 (relating to contents of Pennsylvania Code) to be codified in the code which have been filed with the bureau pursuant to this part shall be permanently integrated into the code…

Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee, whenever a document incorporates by reference any portion of the text of any of the following publications the Legislative Reference Bureau, unless the agency specifies otherwise in its order adopting…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part no press release, speech, or other unofficial comments or news material shall be published in the code, the permanent supplements thereto, or in the bulletin.

(a) General rule.--The code and the permanent supplements thereto shall be published pursuant to typographical and contractual arrangements which shall ensure to every agency and the unified judicial system an opportunity to procure at reasonable cost individually printed pamphle…

The prices to be charged for individual copies of and subscriptions to the code, the permanent supplements thereto and the bulletin, for reprints and bound volumes thereof and for pamphlet regulations, statements of policy, general rules and rules of court, which prices may be fi…

2014 Amendment. Section 731 was deleted by amendment September 24, 2014, P.L.2461, No.133, effective in 60 days.

(a) General rule.--The following shall be published by the bureau or by a contractor under subsection (b): (1) the code; (2) the permanent supplements thereto published pursuant to section 726 (relating to permanent supplements to Pennsylvania Code); (3) pamphlet copies of regula…

(a) Authorization.--In accordance with the act of May 29, 1935 (P.L.244, No.102), referred to as the Local Government Commission Law, the Local Government Commission may, in addition to or in lieu of printed publication and distribution, publish, maintain and update electronic co…

(a) General rule.--The official text, as published as provided in Subchapter B of Chapter 7 (relating to publication of documents), of any document required or authorized to be published in the code, the permanent supplements thereto, or the bulletin, shall from the date of such …

Each title or part of the code and each permanent supplement thereto shall contain a certificate by the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau that such title or part or permanent supplement thereto contains all documents required pursuant to section 702 (relating to conten…

No otherwise valid document which is required by or pursuant to this part or by any other provision of law to be published under this part, shall be valid as against any person who has not had actual knowledge thereof until such publication has been effected. Publication shall be…

Unless otherwise specifically provided by statute other than a provision of this title, the publication under this part of any document required or authorized by this part to be so published shall, except in cases where notice by publication is insufficient in law, be sufficient …

The publication in the code, the permanent supplements thereto, or the bulletin of any document shall create a rebuttable presumption: (1) That it was duly issued, prescribed or promulgated. (2) (Deleted by amendment). (3) That there has been compliance with all of the following …

Whenever notice of hearing or of opportunity to be heard is required or authorized to be given by the Commonwealth government by or under any statute, or may otherwise properly be given, the notice, except in cases where notice by publication is insufficient in law, shall be deem…

(a) General rule.--Except with respect to the time specified for the publication of notice, the publication by the Commonwealth government of any notice in the manner provided by this part shall constitute full compliance with law notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any…