§ 1446b "Newspapers" or "periodicals" defined.

Here's what this rule means in simple terms.

When Oklahoma law talks about "newspapers" or "periodicals" for legal purposes, it means publications that qualify for second class mail status with the postal service. This is a specific mailing classification that the post office uses for regular publications like newspapers and magazines.

But that's not the only requirement. The publication also has to meet all the other rules for what counts as a "legal newspaper" under a 1935 state law. This means a publication needs to check both boxes: it must have second class mail status, and it must follow the other legal newspaper requirements set out in that older law.

This definition matters when court rules require public notices, legal ads, or other announcements to run in a "newspaper." If a publication doesn't meet both parts of this definition, it may not count as an official legal newspaper for those purposes.