Section 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 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.