# New York — What a newspaper may legally charge to publish a legal notice — by US state

For New York, maximum chargeable rate is twenty-nine cents per line of a column width not less than ten pica ems, provided that in computing such charge per line the line shall average at least five words for each insertion in newspapers having less than two thousand five hundred circulation; how the cap is measured is cents per line, banded by newspaper circulation; statute is N.Y. Public Officers Law § 70-a, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** New York _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Maximum chargeable rate:** twenty-nine cents per line of a column width not less than ten pica ems, provided that in computing such charge per line the line shall average at least five words for each insertion in newspapers having less than two thousand five hundred circulation _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How the cap is measured:** cents per line, banded by newspaper circulation _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute:** N.Y. Public Officers Law § 70-a _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> shall be at the rate of twenty-nine cents per line of a column width not less than ten pica ems, provided that in computing such charge per line the line shall average at least five words for each insertion in newspapers having less than two thousand five hundred circulation; twenty-nine and one-half cents per line for newspapers having two thousand five hundred or more circulation and less than five thousand; thirty and one-half cents per line for newspapers having five thousand or more circulation and less than seven thousand and five hundred; thirty-one and one-half cents per line for newspapers having seven thousand five hundred or more circulation and less than ten thousand; thirty-two and one-half cents per line for newspapers having ten thousand or more circulation and less than fifteen thousand

## Source

- https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._public_officers_law_section_70-a

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-08-19.
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