8007 - Printers.

§  8007.  Printers.  Except  where  otherwise  prescribed  by law, the  proprietor of a newspaper is entitled for publishing a summons,  notice,  order  or other advertisement, required to be published by law or by the  order of any court, or of the clerk of a court, to 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 a circulation of less than  two thousand five hundred; 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  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; and  three and one-half cents per line, in addition  to  the  thirty-two  and  one-half  cents  for  the initial fifteen thousand circulation, for each  additional  five  thousand  circulation  up  to   thirty-five   thousand  circulation and one and one-half cents per line for each additional five  thousand  possessed by a newspaper. To all of the above rates nine cents  per line shall be added to the initial insertion charge of each separate  advertisement. To all of the above rates for the initial insertion eight  cents per line shall also be  added  for  tabular  matter  or  intricate  composition.  In reckoning line charges allowance shall be made for date  lines, paragraph endings, titles, signatures and similar short lines  as  full  lines  where  the  same  are  set to conform to the usual rules of  composition. Display advertising  shall  be  charged  agate  measurement  (fourteen  lines to each inch), ten to thirteen pica ems wide, depending  on the makeup of the newspaper publishing such copy. This rate shall not  apply to any newspaper printed, principally  circulated  or  having  its  principal  office  in the counties of New York or Bronx within the first  judicial district or in the county of Kings within the  second  judicial  district  or  in  the  county of Richmond within the thirteenth judicial  district or in the county of Nassau within the tenth  judicial  district  or  in  the county of Queens within the eleventh judicial district or in  the county of Westchester within the ninth judicial district or  in  any  city  having  a  population  of  over  one hundred seventy-five thousand  inhabitants within the eighth judicial district, where the rate for such  publication  may  be  equal  to  but  shall  not  exceed  the  regularly  established  classified  advertising  rate  of  such  newspapers.  Every  newspaper making claim for compensation under  the  provisions  of  this  section  must  be  established at least one year and entered in the post  office as second class matter.