An Act To Eliminate The Requirement For Municipalities To Provide Public Notice In A Newspaper

This bill clarifies how Maine municipalities can fulfill legal requirements for publishing public notices in newspapers. It allows towns to post notices on a newspaper's website or a statewide legal notice repository instead of solely on the municipality's own website, provided the notice also appears in the next available print edition. The amendment ensures that any online notice must include all the same information that would be required in a traditional newspaper publication. This change offers municipalities more flexibility in how they distribute public information while maintaining the requirement for print publication.