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Senate advances bill changing publication fees for legal notices; nonpublic parties to pay higher rates
Summary
The Mississippi Senate approved a committee amendment and passed House Bill 598, which updates word‑rate fees for paid legal notices and adds correction procedures for publisher errors; rates for public bodies remain unchanged.
The Mississippi Senate on Jan. 23 approved a committee amendment and passed House Bill 598, which updates the per‑word fees charged by newspapers and other publications for legal notices and establishes procedures for corrections when a required notice is published with an error.
The measure keeps the statutory rates that public bodies pay unchanged — 12 cents per word for the first insertion and 10 cents per word for subsequent insertions — but raises the rates charged to private parties. Under the bill, nonpublic parties would pay 25 cents per word for a first insertion and 23 cents per word…
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