1. 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.
2. 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.

History: Laws 2003, ch. 359, § 6; 2013, ch. 73, § 5; 2013, ch. 77, § 5; 2023, ch. 100, § 34.

ANNOTATIONS

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, removed references to the public regulation commission due to the transfer of certain powers and duties to the department of transportation; and changed each occurrence of "commission" to "department" throughout the section.

The 2013 amendment, effective July 1, 2013, authorized the commission to electronically publish notice of pending actions of the commission; in Subsection A, in the first sentence, at the beginning of the sentence, deleted "If the Motor Carrier Act requires publication of" and added "The commission shall electronically publish" and after "before the commission", added the remainder of the sentence, at the beginning of the second sentence, added "If the commission in its discretion should also require publication by newspaper", and in the third sentence, after "application", added "for a certificate or permit or for an amendment, lease or transfer of a certificate or permit"; and in Subsection B, in the first sentence, after "notice regarding", added "any other" and after the phrase "any other matter", deleted "other than an application".