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| To enact section 7.16 of the Revised Code to allow | 1 |
| political subdivisions to make internet web site | 2 |
| publications in lieu of newspaper of general | 3 |
| circulation publication requirements if the | 4 |
| political subdivision donates all funds that would | 5 |
| otherwise be used to provide newspaper notices to | 6 |
| a local food bank or food drive for charitable | 7 |
| purposes. | 8 |
| Section 1. That section 7.16 of the Revised Code be enacted | 9 |
| to read as follows: | 10 |
| Sec. 7.16. (A) Notwithstanding any section of the Revised | 11 |
| Code that requires a political subdivision to publish a notice or | 12 |
| advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation, a political | 13 |
| subdivision may satisfy the publication requirement by posting the | 14 |
| notice or advertisement on the political subdivision's internet | 15 |
| web site. A notice or advertisement posted on a political | 16 |
| subdivision's internet web site shall provide the same information | 17 |
| as is otherwise required by the relevant statute and for the same | 18 |
| amount of time as is required by that statute. | 19 |
| (B) A political subdivision that exercises the authority | 20 |
| conferred by this section shall donate any funds that would | 21 |
| otherwise have been used to comply with the statutory notice by | 22 |
| newspaper publication requirements to a local food bank or food | 23 |
| drive to be used solely for charitable purposes. | 24 |
| (C) This section does not apply to any documents required to | 25 |
| be published in a newspaper of general circulation under Section | 26 |
| 1g of Article II or Section 1 of Article XVI of the Ohio | 27 |
| Constitution. | 28 |