Title VIII, TRANSPORTATION (Ch. 306 - 330B)

1. The exhaust of every internal combustion engine used in any snowmobile shall be effectively muffled by equipment constructed and used to muffle all snowmobile noise in a reasonable manner in accordance with rules adopted by the commission. 2. The commission may adopt rules wit…

Every snowmobile shall be equipped with at least one headlight and one taillight. Every snowmobile shall be equipped with brakes. [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321G.12 ] 89 Acts, ch 244, §24 ; 98 Acts, ch 1080, §8 ; 2004 Acts, ch 1132, §18 ; 2012 Acts, ch 1100, §16 Referred to in §8…

1. A person shall not drive or operate a snowmobile: a. At a rate of speed greater than reasonable or proper under all existing circumstances. b. In a careless, reckless, or negligent manner so as to endanger the person or property of another or to cause injury or damage thereto.…

1. A person who violates this chapter or a rule of the commission or director of transportation is guilty of a simple misdemeanor. 2. Chapter 232 shall have no application in the prosecution of offenses which are committed in violation of this chapter and which constitute simple …

The commission shall furnish snowmobile dealers with pasteboard cards bearing the words “registration applied for” and space for the date of purchase. An unregistered snowmobile sold by a dealer shall bear one of these cards which entitles the purchaser to operate it for forty-fi…

The department may authorize the holding of organized special events as defined in this chapter within this state. The department shall adopt rules relating to the conduct of special events held under department permits and designating the equipment and facilities necessary for s…

A person who has received a visual or audible signal from a peace officer to come to a stop, shall not operate a snowmobile in willful or wanton disregard of the signal, interfere with or endanger the officer or any other person or vehicle, increase speed, or attempt to flee or e…

The owner and operator of a snowmobile are liable for any injury or damage occasioned by the negligent operation of the snowmobile. The owner of a snowmobile shall be liable for any such injury or damage only if the owner was the operator of the snowmobile at the time the injury …

1. The owner of a rented snowmobile shall keep a record of the name and address of each person renting the snowmobile, its registration certificate, the departure date and time, and the expected time of return. The records shall be preserved for six months. 2. The owner of a snow…

1. The commission may adopt rules for the following purposes: a. Registration and titling of snowmobiles. b. Use of snowmobiles as far as game and fish resources or habitats are affected. c. Use of snowmobiles on designated snowmobile trails and public lands under the jurisdictio…

A person under sixteen years of age shall not operate a snowmobile on a designated snowmobile trail, public land, or public ice unless the operation is under the direct supervision of a parent, legal guardian, or another person of at least eighteen years of age authorized by the …

1. A manufacturer, distributor, or dealer owning a snowmobile required to be registered under this chapter may operate the snowmobile for purposes of transporting, testing, demonstrating, or selling it without the snowmobile being registered, except that a special registration de…

1. The state, its political subdivisions, and the owners or tenants of property adjoining public lands or the right-of-way of a public highway and their agents and employees owe no duty of care to keep the public lands, ditches, or land contiguous to a highway or roadway under th…

1. The commission shall provide, by rules adopted pursuant to section 321G.2 , for the establishment of certified courses of instruction to be conducted throughout the state for the safe use and operation of snowmobiles. The curriculum shall include instruction in the lawful and …

1. A person twelve through seventeen years of age shall not operate a snowmobile on public land, public ice, a designated snowmobile trail, or land purchased with snowmobile registration funds in this state without obtaining an education certificate approved by the department and…

A peace officer may stop and inspect a snowmobile operated, parked, or stored on public streets, highways, public lands, public ice, or designated snowmobile trails of the state to determine if the snowmobile is registered, numbered, or equipped as required by this chapter and co…

A person who receives a warning memorandum for a snowmobile shall stop using the snowmobile as soon as possible and shall not operate it on public streets, highways, public lands, public ice, or designated snowmobile trails of the state until the snowmobile is in compliance. [ 81…

1. a. The county recorder shall collect a writing fee of two dollars for each privilege under this chapter . b. Writing fees collected or retained by the county recorder under this chapter shall be deposited in the general fund of the county. 2. a. A license agent shall collect a…

1. This chapter and other applicable laws of this state shall govern the operation, equipment, numbering, and all other matters relating to a snowmobile when the snowmobile is operated or maintained in this state. However, this chapter does not prevent the adoption of an ordinanc…

1. The owner of a snowmobile acquired on or after January 1, 1998, other than a snowmobile used exclusively as a farm implement or a snowmobile more than thirty years old registered as provided in section 321G.4, subsection 4 , shall apply to the county recorder of the county in …

1. Each snowmobile used by a resident on public land, public ice, or a designated snowmobile trail of this state shall be currently registered in this state pursuant to section 321G.4 . A resident shall not operate, maintain, or give permission for the operation or maintenance of…

1. The county recorder shall charge a ten dollar fee to issue a certificate of title, a transfer of title, a duplicate, or a corrected certificate of title. 2. If a certificate of title is lost, stolen, mutilated, destroyed, or becomes illegible, the first lienholder or, if there…

1. If ownership of a snowmobile is transferred by operation of law, such as by inheritance, order in bankruptcy, insolvency, replevin, or execution sale, the transferee, within thirty days after acquiring the right to possession of the snowmobile, shall mail or deliver to the cou…

1. A security interest created in this state in a snowmobile is not perfected until the security interest is noted on the certificate of title. a. To perfect the security interest, an application for security interest must be presented along with the original title. The county re…

1. The department may assign a distinguishing number to a snowmobile when the serial number on the snowmobile is destroyed or obliterated and issue to the owner a special decal bearing the distinguishing number which shall be affixed to the snowmobile in a position to be determin…

1. The commission shall establish by rule a recordkeeping system and other administrative procedures necessary to administer this section . 2. A person who pleads guilty to or is convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter while the person’s registration privilege i…

1. The owner of each snowmobile required to be registered shall register it annually with the department through a county recorder. The department shall develop and maintain an electronic system for the registration of snowmobiles pursuant to this chapter . The department shall e…

1. A nonresident wishing to operate a snowmobile on public land, public ice, or a designated snowmobile trail of this state shall obtain a nonresident user permit from the department. A nonresident user permit issued by the department is only valid for use on one snowmobile, is n…

The owner of a snowmobile shall display the registration decal and, if applicable, the nonresident user permit decal on the snowmobile in the manner prescribed by the rules of the commission. [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321G.5 ] 86 Acts, ch 1031, §3 ; 89 Acts, ch 244, §7 ; 2002 Ac…

1. Every snowmobile registration certificate and registration decal issued expires at midnight December 31 unless sooner terminated or discontinued in accordance with this chapter or rules of the commission. After the first day of September each year, an unregistered snowmobile m…

1. A county recorder or license agent shall remit to the commission the snowmobile fees collected by the recorder or license agent in the manner and time prescribed by the department. 2. The department shall remit the fees, including nonresident user permit fees collected pursuan…

Registration and nonresident user permits shall not be required for the following described snowmobiles: 1. Snowmobiles owned by the United States, this state, or another state, or by a governmental subdivision thereof, and used for enforcement, search and rescue, or official res…

A person shall not operate a snowmobile upon roadways or highways, as defined in section 321.1 , except as provided in this chapter . 1. A snowmobile shall not be operated at any time within the right-of-way of any interstate highway or freeway within this state. However, a snowm…

The administration of this chapter shall be vested in the director of transportation. The department may employ such employees as are necessary for the administration of this chapter , within applicable budget limitations. [C79, 81, §321H.1 ] 2015 Acts, ch 29, §114

As used in this chapter and unless a different meaning appears from the context: 1. “Authorized vehicle recycler” means a person licensed to operate as a vehicle rebuilder, used vehicle parts dealer or vehicle salvager. 2. “Department” means the state department of transportation…

Except for educational institutions; persons licensed as new vehicle dealers under chapter 322 ; persons engaged in a hobby not for profit; persons engaged in the business of purchasing bodies, parts of bodies, frames, or component parts of vehicles only for sale as scrap metal; …

1. Upon application and payment of a fee, a person may apply for a license to operate as an authorized vehicle recycler to engage in the business as one or more of the following: a. A vehicle rebuilder. b. A used vehicle parts dealer. c. A vehicle salvager. 2. a. Application for …

1. A vehicle recycler licensed under this chapter and subject to the requirements of 28 C.F.R. §25.56 shall register with the national motor vehicle title information system. 2. a. Except as provided in paragraph “b” , for any vehicle subject to registration under chapter 321 pur…

A license issued under the provisions of this chapter shall specify the location of the principal place of business, the location of each extension within the county of the principal place of business, and for licenses issued on or after January 1, 2016, the licensee’s registrati…

The license of a person issued under the provisions of this chapter may be denied, revoked, or suspended, and an application for a license under this chapter may be denied, if the department finds any of the following: 1. The licensee has violated any provision of this chapter . …

All fees of whatever character accruing from the administration of this chapter shall be accounted for and paid by the department into the state treasury monthly and shall be credited to the road use tax fund. [C79, 81, §321H.7 ]

1. a. Except as provided in paragraph “b” , a person convicted of violating a provision of this chapter is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. b. A person convicted of violating section 321H.4A is guilty of a simple misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty…

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. a. “All-terrain vehicle” means a motorized vehicle with not less than three and not more than six nonhighway tires that is limited in engine displacement to less than one thousand cubic centimeters and in total d…

1. A person shall not operate an all-terrain vehicle or off-road utility vehicle upon roadways or highways except as provided in section 321.234A and this section . 2. A registered all-terrain vehicle or off-road utility vehicle may be operated on an undivided two-lane primary hi…

If an all-terrain vehicle is involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to anyone or property damage amounting to one thousand five hundred dollars or more, either the operator or someone acting for the operator shall immediately notify the county sheriff or another law…

1. An all-terrain vehicle shall not be operated without suitable and effective muffling devices. An all-terrain vehicle shall comply with the sound level standards and testing procedures established by the society of automotive engineers under SAE J1287. 2. The commission may ado…