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6000. A "newspaper of general circulation" is a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence ofa general character, which has a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers, and has been established, printed and published at regular intervals in the State, county, or city where publication, notice by publication, or official advertising is to be given or made for at least one year preceding the date of the publication, notice or advertisement. 6008. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a newspaper is a "newspaper of general circulation" if it meets the following criteria: (a) It is a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence ofa general character, which has a bona fide subscription list ofpaying subscribers and has been established and published at regular intervals of not less than weekly in the city, district, or judicial district for which it is seeking aditdication for at least three years preceding the date ofadfudication. (b) It has a substantial distribution to paid subscribers in the city, district, or judicial district in which it is seeking adfudication. (c) It has maintained a minimum coverage of local or telegraphic news and intelligence ofa general character of not less than 25 percent of its total inches during each year of the three-year period. (d) It has only one principal office ofpublication and that office is in the city, district, or Judicial district for which it is seeking adfudication. WHEREAS, in accordance Nvith California Government Code Section 36933, Nvithin 15 days after a passage of an Ordinance, a City Cleric shall publish and post Ordinances, and if so chosen, a member of the public may request notification as follows: .......... (d) (1) Any member of the public may file with the city clerk, or any other person designated by the governing body to receive these requests, a requestfor notice ofspec f c proposed ordinances or proposed amendments to ordinances. (2) Notice pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be mailed or otherwise transmitted at least five days before the council is schedided to take action on the proposed ordinances or proposed amendments to an ordinance. Notice may be given by written notice property mailed or by e -mail if the requesting member of the public provides an e -mail address. Notice may be in the form specified in either paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (c), as determined by the city council. (3) As an alternative to providing notice as requested of spec f c proposed ordinances or proposed amendments to ordinances, the city clerk, or other person designated by the governing body, may place the requesting member of the public on a general mailing list that gives timely notice of all governing body public meetings at which proposed ordinances or proposed amendments to ordinances may be heard, as provided in Section 54954.1. If this alternative is selected, the requesting member of the public shall be so advised. (4) The city may charge a fee that is reasonably related to the costs of providing notice pursuant to this subdivision. The city may require each request to be annually renewed. (5) Failure of the requesting person to receive the information pursuant to this subdivision shall not constitute grounds for any court to invalidate an otherwise properly adopted ordinance or amendment to an ordinance. WHEREAS, as California Government Code Section 36933 already recognizes electronic mail as a form of communicating Nvith the public when it comes to Ordinances, the Desert/Mountain Division of the League of California Cities seeks other public noticing requirements in the Government Code reflect the same; and