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Rule *285 Legal Periodical; Service By Publication

(a) Except as otherwise provided by Act of Assembly, rule or special order of Court, service by publication shall be made by publication once in the Bucks County Law Reporter and in one newspaper of general circulation within the county, meeting the requirements of law, in such manner that the person so served shall have at least five days after the publication thereof to act thereon.

(b) The Bucks County Law Reporter shall be the legal periodical for the publishing of legal advertisements required by law, rule or order of the Court. Every notice of advertisement required by law, rule or order of Court to be published in one or more newspapers published in the County of Bucks, unless dispensed with by special order of Court, shall also be published in the Bucks County Law Reporter. Whenever any notice including advertisements of judicial sales, writs, rules or orders whatever, shall be required by law, rule or order of the Court to be published in any newspaper in addition to the legal periodical, such additional publication shall be made in the newspaper or newspapers designated by the Court, by general rule or such special order as from time to time may be made. In all cases where no designation shall have been made or provided for by general rule or order of court, the plaintiff in the action, or party procuring the rule or order, or his attorney of record, may endorse upon his praecipe, petition or motion the additional newspaper or newspapers in which he desires the notice or advertisement to be inserted; whereupon, a special order designating the newspaper or newspapers named shall issue as of course; provided that unless cause be shown, only newspapers of general circulation within the county and meeting the requirements of law shall be so designated. The defendant or other party to the proceeding adversely affected, or other creditors, may apply to the Court, or a judge in vacation, to change the additional newspaper or newspapers so selected for publication upon cause shown. The designation of such additional newspaper or newspapers made by the parties may be disregarded and the order changed by the Court, or a judge in vacation, upon application, or of its own motion.