are effective upon their adoption and filing with the municipal finance officer. Additional deletions, modifications, and amendments to the county ordinance may, from time to time, be made by the governing body, and are effective upon their adoption and filing with the county auditor. ".

"      Section 3. That § 7-18-3 be amended to read as follows:

     7-18-3.   At its regular meeting in January of each year it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to shall designate three legal newspapers printed in the county as official newspapers, or in case there shall not be if there are not three legal newspapers within the county, then as many as are legal, in which shall be published the minutes of the meeting containing a full and complete report of all its official proceedings at all regular and special meetings , and such proceedings . The minutes shall be published as soon after any meeting as practicable. The board shall pay for publishing such proceedings the minutes at not to exceed ninety percent of the legal line rates for weekly newspapers and not to exceed the legal line rate for daily newspapers, as provided in chapter 17-2. However, within a first class municipality, the board of county commissioners may publish its minutes on the internet in lieu of publishing the minutes in the designated legal newspaper.

    
section 4. That § 7-18-5 be amended to read as follows:

     7-18-5.   It shall be the duty of the The county auditor to make shall prepare the minutes containing a full and complete report of the proceedings of each regular and special meeting of the board, and to shall transmit the same minutes to the publishers of the official newspapers. Such report The minutes shall be made out prepared and transmitted within one week twenty days from the time such the meeting is held. ".

Dawn Magee