6009.
(a) A person, corporation, state agency, city, county, city and county, special district, authority, or other political subdivision of the state, or other legal entity that is legally required by a statute, ordinance, bylaw, or judicial order to publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation or other newspaper shall publish that notice in a manner that ensures it appears in and on all of the following:(1) The newspaper’s print publication.
(2) The newspaper’s internet website or electronic newspaper available on the internet.
(3) A statewide internet website maintained as a repository for notices by a majority
of California newspapers of general circulation, as described in this article.
(b) (1) In accordance with subdivision (a), a newspaper publishing a notice that has an internet website operated by that newspaper shall also place the notice on its internet website and on a statewide internet website maintained by an entity with the capacity to receive and upload legal notices from the majority of newspapers in this state as a repository for the notices.
(2) Posting on the internet website shall begin on the first day of placement on the internet website and shall run continuously until the expiration of the specified time legally required for that type of notice.
(3) Each notice required to be placed on the newspaper’s internet website shall remain valid if it meets all of the requirements of this
section, and the legality of the newspaper publication shall not be affected by the failure of the newspaper for any reason to upload legal notice publications to a statewide internet website or to another internet website or to accurately post the notice publication on any internet website.
(c) If a newspaper does not maintain its own internet website, publication on a statewide internet website and reference to the statewide internet website in the print publication notice shall satisfy the requirement of publication on the newspaper’s internet website.
(d) An error in the legal notice published on a newspaper’s internet website or the statewide internet website that is a result of either (1) an error of the internet website operator; or (2) a temporary internet website outage or service interruption that prevents the publication or display of a legal notice on the internet
website shall not constitute a defect in publication of the legal notice, if the legal notice appears correctly in the newspaper’s print publication and satisfies all other legal notice requirements. Failure to post or maintain a public notice on the newspaper’s internet website or to post a public notice on the statewide public notice internet website does not affect the validity of the public notice.
(e) A newspaper shall not charge a fee or surcharge specifically to access public notices on their internet website. However a newspaper may continue to charge a fee or surcharge for access to other content on their internet website, including, but not limited to, public notices published by the newspaper, if the newspaper also includes a reasonably accessible link to the statewide internet website on the newspaper’s internet website.
(f) A state or local agency that maintains an
internet website and publishes a public notice shall include a reasonably accessible link on its internet website to the statewide internet website, currently capublicnotice.com, where the public notice shall appear.