Opinion No. (1983)

Dear Representative Patterson:

This is in response to your request for an opinion as follows:

May a "weekly" paper that has operated as such for many years which converts to a "daily" paper qualify for the three years of regular and consecutive publication required by section 493.050, RSMo 1978, without having to wait three years after having published daily?

Section 493.050, RSMo 1978, describes the type of newspapers in which legal advertisements and notices may be published. That section reads, in pertinent part:

All public advertisements and orders of publication required by law to be made…