In today's modern world of technology and communication, publishing legal notices in newspapers seems outdated and unnecessary. Other than lawyers, few, if any, people read legal notices in the back section of usually a small "general" circulation newspaper. An Arizona bill would do away with the requirement to publish the legal notices in a newspaper.
Arizona Representative David W. Stevens introduced H.B. 2403 that would allow legal notices to be published both in newspapers or in a designated online database. This would allow companies to do away with contacting multiple local newspapers and allow the few that do read these notices to do so online. Furthermore, it would reduce the amount of unnecessary printed paper.
Newspaper publishers continue to fight proposals to reduce the necessity of publishing legal notices in newspapers, as this is a good source of revenue as readership dwindles.
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