CPLR § 8007

Printers  ·  as in force on May 31, 2026

§ 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.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CVP/8007

In plain English

A qualifying newspaper proprietor may charge statutory per-line rates for a legally or court-required publication: $0.29 below 2,500 circulation; $0.295 from 2,500 to under 5,000; $0.305 from 5,000 to under 7,500; $0.315 from 7,500 to under 10,000; and $0.325 from 10,000 to under 15,000, plus $0.035 per line for each further 5,000 circulation up to 35,000 and $0.015 per line for each further 5,000 above that. Lines must be at least 10 pica ems wide, and for papers under 2,500 circulation a line must average at least 5 words. Add $0.09 per line to each advertisement’s first insertion and another $0.08 per line then for tabular or intricate work. ★ Short compositional lines count as full lines; display ads use agate measurement, 14 lines per inch, 10 to 13 pica ems wide. In the listed New York City-area counties and qualifying Eighth District cities, the publication rate may equal but not exceed the paper’s regular classified rate. The newspaper must have existed at least 1 year and be entered as second-class mail.

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Clerk: Civil Practice Law and Rules; Volume 1 — Your Career: Civil Practice in Plain English.