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'Stealing' free newspapers to become a crime; law sets limit on taking publications at 25 per person.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-SEP-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Newspaper publishers from around the county are cheering a new law that makes it illegal for any one person to take more than 25 copies of a free publication.

The law, which was signed this month by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, will take effect Jan. 1. Maximum punishment for breaking the law would be a misdemeanor conviction accompanied by a $500 fine and 10 days in a county jail.

Linda Townson, publisher of the StarNews, couldn't be happier.

Townson runs a 33,500-circulation weekly serving Chula Vista, National City, Bonita and EastLake, and is partly...

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