17-2-2.3. Content requirements.
A legal newspaper shall contain reports of happenings of recent occurrences of a varied nature, such as political, social, moral, and religious subjects and miscellaneous reading matter, and for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices devote at least twenty-five percent of its total column space in at least one-half of its issues in any calendar year to such nonpaid news content. No more than eighty percent of the space devoted to such news content may duplicate any other publication, unless the duplicated material is from recognized general news services.
Source: SL 1985, ch 165, ยง4.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 17 - Notice and Publication
Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice
Section 17-2-2.2 - Price and circulation requirements.
Section 17-2-2.3 - Content requirements.
Section 17-2-2.4 - Office and mailing permit requirements.
Section 17-2-3 - Status as legal newspaper unaffected by consolidation.
Section 17-2-10 - Publication in adjoining county if no legal newspaper published in county.
Section 17-2-16 - Designation of newspaper in which execution notice published.
Section 17-2-17 - Day on which weekly publication made--Interval between publications.
Section 17-2-18 - Weekly publication constituting publication for stated number of days.
Section 17-2-18.2 - Type size required for legal publication.
Section 17-2-19 - Legal publication fees not otherwise prescribed--Review and adjustment.
Section 17-2-20 - Fees chargeable for second and subsequent publications.
Section 17-2-22.1 - Affidavit of printer or publisher admissible in evidence--Prima facie evidence.
Section 17-2-23 - Publication affidavits validated despite discrepancy in name of newspaper.
Section 17-2-26 - Vested rights protected against validating provisions.
Section 17-2-27 - Publication affidavits validated without additional affidavit as to fees.