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RCW 36.72.075
Official county newspaper.
At its first April meeting, the county legislative authority shall let a contract to a legal
newspaper qualified under this section to serve as the official county newspaper for the term
of one year beginning on the first day of July following. If there be at least one legal
newspaper published in the county, the contract shall be let to a legal newspaper published in
the county. If there be no legal newspaper published in the county, the county legislative
authority shall let the contract to a legal newspaper published in an adjacent county and
having general circulation in the county.
When two or more legal newspapers are qualified under the provisions of this section
to be the official county newspaper, the clerk of the county legislative authority shall advertise,
at least five weeks before the meeting at which the county legislative authority shall let the
contract for the official county newspaper, for bid proposals to be submitted by interested
qualified legal newspapers. Advertisement of the opportunity to bid shall be mailed to all
qualified legal newspapers and shall be published once in the official county newspaper. The
advertisement may designate the form which notices shall take, and may require that the
successful bidder provide a bond for the correct and faithful performance of the contract.
The county legislative authority shall let the contract to the best and lowest responsible
bidder, giving consideration to the question of circulation in awarding the contract, with a view
to giving publication of notices the widest publicity.
[ 2017c37 § 3; 1977c34§ 2.]
https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=36.72.075 1/3/2019