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CHAPTER 50, FLORIDA STATUTES . LEGAL AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS 50.011 Where and in what language legal notices to be published. 50.021 Publication when no newspaper in county. 50.031 Newspapers in which legal notices and process may be published. 50.041 Proof of publication; uniform affidavits required. 50.051 Proof of publication; form of uniform affidavit. 50.061 Amounts chargeable. 50.071 Publication costs; court docket fund. 50.011 Where and in what language legal notices to be published.- Whenever by statute an official or legal advertisement or a publication, or notice in a newspaper has been or is directed or permitted in the nature of or in lieu of process, or for constructive service, or in initiating, assuming, reviewing, exercising or enforcing jurisdiction or power, or for any purpose, including all legal notices and advertisements of sheriffs and tax collectors, the contemporaneous and continuous intent and meaning of such legislation all and singular, existing or repealed, is and has been and is hereby declared to be and to have been, and the rule of interpretation is and has been, a publication in a newspaper printed and published periodically once a week or oftener, containing at least 25 percent of its words in the English language, entered or qualified to be admitted and entered as 1second-class matter at a post office in the county where published, for sale to the public generally, available to the public generally for the publication of official or other notices and customarily containing information of a public character or of interest or of value to the residents or owners of property in the county where published, or of interest or of value to the general public. History.-s. 2, ch. 3022,1877; RS 1296; GS 1727; s. 1, ch. 5610,1907; RGS 2942; s. 1, ch. 12104, 1927; CGL 4666,4901; s. 1, ch. 63-387; is. 6, ch. 67-254. 1Note.-Hedesignated as "Periodicals" by the United States Postal Service, see 61 F.R. 10123-10124, March 12, 1996. Note.-lFormer s. 49.01. 50.021 Publication when no newspaper in county.- When ~ny law, or order or decree of court, shall direct advertisements to be made in any county and there be no newspaper published in the said cbunty, the advertisement may be made by posting three copies thereof in three different places in said county, one of which shall be at the front door of the courthouse, and by publication ill the nearest county in which a newspaper is published. History.-RS 1297; GS 1728; RGS 2943; CGL 4667; s. 6, ch. 67-254. Note.-lFormer s. 49.02. 50.031 :Newspapers in which legal notices and process may be published.- No notice or publication required to be published in a newspaper in the nature of or in lieu of process of any kind, nature, character or description provided for under any law of the state, whether heretofore or hereafter enacted, and whether pertaining to constructive service, or title initiating, assuming, reviewing, exercising or enforcing jurisdiction or power, by any court in this state, or any notice of sale of property, real or personal, for taxes, state, county or municipal, or sheriffs, guardian's or administrator's or any sale made pursuant to any judicil:Jl order, decree or statute or any other publication or notice pertaining to any affairs of the state, or any county, municipality or other political subdivision thereof, shall be deemed to have been published in accordance with the statutes providing for such publication, Junless the same shall have been published for the prescribed period of time required for such publication, in a newspaper which at th~ time of such publication shall have been in existence for 1 year and shall have been entered as 1second-class mail matter at a post office in the county where published, or in a newspaper which is a direct successor of a newspaper which together have been so published; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall apply where in any county there shall be no newspaper in existence which shallltlave been published for the length of time above prescribed. No legal publication of any kind, nature or description, as herein defined, shall be valid or binding or held to be in compliance with the statutes providing for such publication unless the same shall have been published in accordance with the provisions of this section. Proof of such publication shall be made by uniform affidavit. History.-ss. 1-3, ch. 14830,1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 4274(1); s. 7, ch. 22858,1945; s. 6, ch. 67-254; s. 1, ch. 74-221. 1Note.-Hedesignated as "Periodicals" by the United States Postal Service, see 61 F.R. 10123-10124, March 12, 1996. Note.-lFormer s. 49.03. 50.041 Proof of publication; uniform affidavits required.- (1) All affidavits of publishers of newspapers (or their official representatives) made forthe purpose of establishing proof of publication of public notices or legal advertisements shall be uniform throughout the state. (2) Each such affidavit shall be printed upon white bond paper containing at least 25 percent rag material and shall be 8% inches in width and of convenient length, not less than 5% inches. A white margin of not less than 2% inches shall be left at the right side of each affidavit form and upon or in this space shall be substantially pasted a clipping which shall be a true copy of the public notice or legal advertisement for which proof is executed_ (3) In all counties having a population in excess of 450,000 according to the latest official decennial census, in addition to the charges which are now or may hereafter be established by law for the publication of every official notice or legal advertisement, there may be a charge not to exceed $2 for the preparation and execution of each such proof of publication or publisher's affidavit. History.-s. 1, ch_ 19290, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4668(1); s. 1, ch_ 63-49; s. 26, ch_ 67-254; s_ 1, ch_ 76-58. Note.-Former s_ 49_04. 50.051 Proof of publication; form of uniform affidavit.- The printed form upon which all such affidavits establishing proof of publication are to be executed shall be substantially as follows: 42.00-039 (Rev_ 09/01)