Berk. Cnty. Pa. 430(b)

As amended through May 6, 2024
Rule 430(b) - By Publication
(1) Where service is by publication in an equity action, an action to quiet title or an ejectment action, it shall consist of a brief statement of the contents of the complaint, a notice to the persons served by the publication to plead on or before a date fixed in the notice, which date shall be not less than thirty (30) days after the date of the last publication, along with a notice complying with the form prescribed in Pa.R.C.P. 430(b) and naming the agency from whom legal help can be obtained as designated in B.R.C.P. 1018.1. If the subject matter of the action is real estate, the published notice shall contain a sufficient description of the real estate involved to identify it, but need not set forth a full and detailed description, if reference is made in said advertisement to the volume and page in the Recorder of Deeds office of this county where a recorded description of said property appears. In the absence of a special order of court, the published notice shall be inserted in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county and the Berks County Law Journal as required by the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. The publication required by Pa.R.C.P. 1507 shall conform to the requirements of this Rule insofar as said requirements are applicable.
(2) In all cases in which any statute, Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure, Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure, Berks County Rule of Court or Order of Court, publication of legal notices or advertisement shall be required to be made in a legal periodical, the same shall be made in the Berks County Law Journal, which for all such purposes is designated as the legal periodical in Berks County. A copy of every legal issue of said periodical shall be furnished free of charge to the following: each judge of the Court of Common Pleas, the prothonotary, the clerk of court, the court administrator, the county solicitor, the office of the county commissioners and the law library, to be kept there on file.

Berk. Cnty. Pa. 430(b)

Amended effective 2/12/2018 ; amended effective 7/9/2019; amended effective 3/14/2020.