A. The department shall electronically publish notice regarding an application before the department for a certificate or for a change in a certificate, regarding proposed rulemaking, or regarding other orders of the department of general application, by posting a copy of the notice or document on the department’s internet website and sending electronic mail to all motor carriers, public officials or agencies, or other persons or entities who have previously supplied electronic mail addresses to the department for the purpose of publication, advising such persons of the filing and posting. If the department in its discretion should also require publication by newspaper, the requirement is met if notice is published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the state. The department shall not act on an application for a certificate or for an amendment, lease or transfer of a certificate less than twenty days after the date notice was published.

B. Whenever the Motor Carrier Act requires publication of notice regarding any other matter, the requirement is met if notice is published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the state. The department shall not act on a matter less than ten days after the date notice was published.