New Jersey § 35:1-2

§ 35:1-2.

Whenever it is required to publish resolutions, official proclamations, notices or

advertising of any sort, kind or character, including proposals for bids on public

work and otherwise, by this State or by any board or body constituted and established

for the performance of any State duty or by any State official or office or commission,

the newspaper or newspapers selected for such publication must meet and satisfy the

following qualifications, namely: said newspaper or newspapers shall be entirely

printed in the English language, shall be printed and published within the State of

New Jersey, shall be a newspaper of general paid circulation possessing an average

news content of not less than thirty-five per centum (35%), shall have been published

continuously in the municipality where its publication office is situate for not less

than two years and shall have been entered for two years as second-class mail matter

under the postal laws and regulations of the United States. In case a newspaper cannot meet these qualifications, itself, but has acquired another

newspaper which meets these qualifications, the acquiring newspaper shall be deemed

to meet these qualifications if it is published in the same municipality and entered

in the same post office as was the acquired newspaper. Continuous publication within the meaning of this section shall not be deemed interrupted

by any involuntary suspension of publication for a period not exceeding six months,

resulting from loss, destruction, mechanical or electrical failure of typesetting

equipment or printing presses or the unavailability, due to conditions beyond the

control of the publisher, of paper or other materials and supplies necessary for operation,

or resulting from a labor dispute with a recognized labor union, and any newspaper

so affected shall not be disqualified hereunder in the event that publication is resumed

within said period of six months.