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There are four types of Colorado Press
Association membership possibilities:
1. Individual
— $60 per year. Entitles that person to press credentials (card-$5, plate-$10), one newspaper
directory, CPA associate member decals, Editor
subscription for one year, and person may attend regional
meetings (which are open and free to members).
2. Business/Organization — $160 per year. Entitles every employee
for that group to press credentials. The organization receives
one newspaper directory, CPA associate member decals, one
Editor subscription, and members of the organization may attend
regional meetings.
3. Newspaper —
$300 per year. All newspapers that are not regular members (see
below) must pay $300 per year. The paper is eligible to
participate in the Co-Scan and 2x2 programs. Entitles every
employee for that newspaper to press credentials. The
organization receives one newspaper directory, CPA associate
member decals, one Editor subscription, and members of the
organization may attend regional meetings.
All three of the above are considered
"Associate members." Their names are listed in the
back of the newspaper directory and these members may not
participate in the Better Newspaper Contest. (Newspapers that
are associate members BUT are owned by a regular member
newspaper may enter the contest if they pay the $300 annual
dues.)
4. Regular member newspapers pay
dues based on their circulations. The board must approve new
regular members. Please e-mail Ed Otte at eotte@colopress.net
for more information.
These papers are legal publications (see
below). They receive a copy of a newspaper directory, regular
member decals, all of their staff is eligible for press
credentials, Editor subscription, Co-Scan, 2x2, Better
Newspaper Contest.
Legal publications have been published for
at least 52 weeks consecutively and have a second-class
periodical mailing permit from tbe post office.
24-70-102. Legal publications. Every
newspaper printed and published daily, or daily except Sundays
and legal holidays, or on each of any five days in every week
excepting legal holidays and including or excluding Sundays
shall be considered and held to be a daily newspaper; every
newspaper printed and published at regular intervals three
times each week shall be considered and held to be a triweekly
newspaper; every newspaper printed and published at regular
intervals twice each week shall be considered and held to be a
semiweekly newspaper; and every newspaper printed and published
at regular intervals once each week shall be considered and
held to be a weekly newspaper. No publication, no matter how
frequently published, shall be considered a legal publication
unless it has been
admitted to the U.S. mails as second-class
matter.
24-70-103. Requisites of legal newspaper.
(1) Any and every legal notice or advertisement shall be
published only in a daily, a triweekly, a semiweekly, or a
weekly newspaper of general circulation and printed or
published in whole or in part in the country in which such
notice or advertisement is required to be published, except as
provided in this section. The newspaper, if published
triweekly, semiweekly, or weekly, shall have been so published
in such county, except as provided in this section,
continuously and uninterruptedly during the period of at least
fifty-two consecutive weeks next prior to the first issue
thereof containing any such notice or advertisement; and the
newspaper, if published daily, shall have been so published in
such county, uninterruptedly and continuously, during the
period of at least six moths next prior to the first issue
thereof containing any such notice or advertisement. In the
case of a municipality having territory in in two counties,
each of which counties has one or more legal newspapers within
the municipality, the publication by such municipality of its
legal notices and advertisements in one of such newspapers
shall be construed as valid publication under this part 1. (2)
the mere change in the name of any newspaper or the removal of
the principal business office or seat f publication of any
newspaper from one place to another in the same county shall
not break or affect the continuity in publication of any
such newspaper if the same is in fact continuously and
uninterruptedly printed or published within such county. A
newspaper shall not lose its rights as a legal publication if
it fails to publish one or more of its issues by reason of a
strike, transportation embargo or tie-up, or other casualty
beyond the control of the publishers.
Any legal notice which fails of
publication for the required number of insertions by reason of
a strike shall not be declared illegal if publication has been
made in one issue of the publication. (3) If in any county in
this state no newspaper has been published for the prescribed
period at the time when any such notice or advertisement is
required to be published, or if there is no newspaper published
therein, such notice or advertisement may be published in any
newspaper printed in whole or in part in an adjoining county
and having a general circulation in whole or in part in said
county having no newspaper published therein.
