27-31-201. Order setting hearing date -- notice. (1) When a petition setting out the matters contained in 27-31-101 or 27-31-102 is filed, the court or judge may appoint a time for hearing the petition. Except as provided in subsection (2), notice of the time and place of hearing the petition must be published for 4 successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county, if a newspaper be printed therein, but if no newspaper be printed in the county, a copy of such notice must be posted in at least three public places in the county for a like period.
     (2) No publication is required for a change of name of a minor under 27-31-101 if both parents and all legal guardians consent in writing.

     History: En. Sec. 2262, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7362, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 7, L. 1911; re-en. Sec. 9965, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 9965, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-100-3; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 233, L. 1987.