Ohio
For Ohio, maximum chargeable rate is The government rate shall not exceed the lowest classified advertising rate and lowest insert rate paid by other advertisers; how the cap is measured is tied to the newspaper's commercial rate; statute is Ohio Rev. Code § 7.10, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.
- State
- Ohio our reading
- Maximum chargeable rate
- The government rate shall not exceed the lowest classified advertising rate and lowest insert rate paid by other advertisers verified
- How the cap is measured
- tied to the newspaper's commercial rate our reading
- Statute
- Ohio Rev. Code § 7.10 our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
For the publication of advertisements, notices, or proclamations required to be published by a public officer of a county, municipal corporation, township, school, or other political subdivision, publishers of newspapers shall establish a government rate. The government rate shall not exceed the lowest classified advertising rate and lowest insert rate paid by other advertisers.
— codes.ohio.gov, retrieved 2026-08-19
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Statute
Section 7.10 | Legal advertisements, notices, and proclamations.
— all from codes.ohio.gov, retrieved 2026-08-19
Source
- codes.ohio.govhttps://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-7.10