Ohio § 7.10

§ 7.10.

For the publication of advertisements, notices, and proclamations, except those relating

to proposed amendments to the Ohio Constitution, required to be published by a public

officer of the state, a benevolent or other public institution, a trustee, assignee,

executor, or administrator, or by or in any court of record, except when the rate

is otherwise fixed by law, publishers of newspapers may charge and receive for such

advertisements, notices, and proclamations rates charged on annual contracts by them

for a like amount of space to other advertisers who advertise in its general display

advertising columns. For the publication of advertisements, notices, or proclamations required to be published

by a public officer of a county, municipal corporation, township, school, or other

political subdivision, publishers of newspapers shall establish a government rate.  The government rate shall not exceed the lowest classified advertising rate and

lowest insert rate paid by other advertisers. Legal advertising appearing in print, except that relating to proposed amendments

to the Ohio Constitution, shall be set up in a compact form, without unnecessary spaces,

blanks, or headlines, and printed in not smaller than six-point type.  The type used must be of such proportions that the body of the capital letter M

is no wider than it is high and all other letters and characters are in proportion. Except as provided in section 2701.09 of the Revised Code , all legal advertisements, notices, and proclamations shall be printed in a newspaper

of general circulation or posted by the publisher of the newspaper on the newspaper's

internet web site, if the newspaper has one.  A publisher of a newspaper shall establish a government rate, which shall not exceed

the lowest classified advertising rate and lowest insert rate paid by other advertisers,

for posting legal advertisements, notices, and proclamations that are required by

law to be published in a newspaper of general circulation's digital edition on the

newspaper's internet web site. Whenever a notice or advertisement is required by a section of the Revised Code or

an administrative rule to be published in a newspaper of general circulation, or posted

by the publisher of the newspaper in the newspaper's digital edition on the newspaper's

internet web site, the notice or advertisement also shall be posted on the official

public notice web site, established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code , by the publisher of the newspaper.