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

A highway authority may maintain a suit in equity aided by injunction to restrain an obstruction in a highway right-of-way. In such actions, the highway authority may cause the legal boundary lines of the highway to be adjudicated provided all interested parties are impleaded. 20…

A person shall not excavate, fill, or make a physical change within a highway right-of-way without obtaining a permit from the applicable highway authority. At the request of a permittee, a modification may be granted in the discretion of the highway authority. Work performed und…

1. a. A utility structure in a highway right-of-way used for telephone, electric, natural gas, or other distribution or transmission purposes shall be removed by the owner or operator of the transmission lines upon written notice from the highway authority of not less than ninety…

Where an independent or community school district has within its limits a city of one hundred twenty-five thousand population or more, and has a schoolhouse located outside the city limits of such city and outside the limits of any city, the board of supervisors of the county in …

Said work shall be undertaken and consummated and the cost thereof assessed to the abutting property in the manner and method and with the same effect as provided for the construction of sidewalks and the assessment of the costs thereof against benefited property by city councils…

After the construction of such sidewalk the board of supervisors shall keep the same in repair and assess and certify the cost thereof in the same manner and to the same extent in which like repairs are assessed and certified by city councils. [C27, 31, 35, §4857-b3; C39, § 4857.…

The state department of transportation in case of primary roads, and the board of supervisors in case of secondary roads, on written application designating the particular highway and part of the highway, the use of which is desired, may grant permission: 1. To lay gas mains in h…

A grant made under section 320.4 shall be on such reasonable conditions as the state department of transportation or the board of supervisors may exact, and on such conditions as the general assembly may prescribe. [C97, §1524; S13, §1527-e; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4859; C46, 50, …

1. Mains, pipes, and cattleways erected and maintained under this chapter shall not interfere with public travel or with the future improvement of the highway. The owner of the mains, pipes, and cattleways shall be responsible for all damages arising from laying, maintaining, or …

Failure of the grantee to comply with the terms of the grant shall be grounds for forfeiture of the grant. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4861; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §320.7 ] 2023 Acts, ch 64, §51 Referred to in §331.362

Failure to comply with any of the conditions of said grant, whether made such by statute or by agreement, or the laying of any such mains, or the constructing of any such cattleways, without having secured the grant of permission as provided by law shall be deemed a simple misdem…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall, for the purpose of this chapter , have the meanings respectively ascribed to them. 1. a. “Agricultural hazardous material” means a hazardous material, other than hazardous waste, whose end use directly supports the …

1. The director and officers of the department designated by the director are authorized to prepare under the seal of the department and provide upon request a certified copy of any record of the department, charging a fee of fifty cents for each document so authenticated, and ev…

It is a fraudulent practice for any person to commit any of the following acts: 1. To alter with a fraudulent intent any certificate of title, manufacturer’s or importer’s certificate, registration card, registration plate, manufacturer’s vehicle identification plate, or permit i…

1. The department is hereby authorized to suspend or revoke the registration of a vehicle, registration card, registration plate, or any nonresident or other permit in any of the following events: a. When the department is satisfied that such registration card, plate, or permit w…

The county treasurer may revoke the registration and registration plates of a vehicle if the annual registration fee or the fee for new registration is paid by check, electronic payment, or credit card and the check, electronic payment, or credit card is not honored by the payer’…

The department is also authorized to suspend or revoke a certificate or the special plates issued to a manufacturer, transporter, or dealer upon determining that any said person is not lawfully entitled thereto or has made or knowingly permitted any illegal use of such plates or …

Whenever the department as authorized hereunder cancels, suspends, or revokes the registration of a vehicle, or certificate of title, or registration card, or registration plate or plates, or any nonresident or other permit or the registration of any dealer, the owner or person i…

It is a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled violation under section 805.8A, subsection 2 , for any person to commit any of the following acts: 1. To operate any motor vehicle upon the highways upon which the certificate of title has been canceled, or while a certificate …

1. An annual registration fee shall be paid for each vehicle operated upon the public highways of this state unless the vehicle is specifically exempted under this chapter . If a vehicle, which has been registered for the current registration year, is transferred during the regis…

1. Definitions. The following terms, when used in this section , shall have the following meanings, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates otherwise: a. “Department” means the department of revenue. b. “Director” means the director of revenue. c. “Owner” me…

1. When a motor truck, truck tractor, or road tractor is registered by the county treasurer pursuant to section 321.120 , 321.121 , or 321.122 and there is no delinquency and the registration is made in February or succeeding months through November, the annual registration fee s…

1. a. The annual fee for all motor vehicles including vehicles designated by manufacturers as station wagons, 1993 and subsequent model year multipurpose vehicles, and 2010 and subsequent model year motor trucks with an unladen weight of ten thousand pounds or less, except motor …

1. All records of the department, other than those made confidential or not permitted to be open in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §2721 et seq., adopted as of a specific date by rule of the department, shall be open to public inspection during office hours. 2. Notwithstanding subsect…

When the annual registration fee, computed according to section 321.109, subsection 1 , totals a fraction over a certain number of dollars the fee shall be arrived at by computing to the nearest even dollar. [C27, 31, 35, §4908-a1; C39, § 5008.06; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,…

Any motor vehicle originally registered as a passenger car and thereafter converted into a truck with a loading capacity of less than one thousand pounds, shall be registered as a passenger car. [C35, §4908-g1; C39, § 5008.07; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321…

No motor vehicle, except as provided in section 321.117 , shall be registered for a registration year for less than ten dollars. [C24, 27, 31, 35, §4909; C39, § 5008.08; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.112 ] 82 Acts, ch 1062, §14, 38 ; 2007 Acts, ch 143, §11…

1. The annual registration fee for a motor vehicle shall not be automatically reduced under this section unless the fee is based on the value and weight of the motor vehicle as provided in section 321.109, subsection 1 . 2. If a motor vehicle is more than seven model years old, t…

1. a. A motor vehicle twenty-five years old or older may be registered as an antique vehicle. The annual registration fee is the fee provided in section 321.113 , 321.122 , or 321.124 . b. The owner of a motor truck, truck tractor, road tractor, or motor home that is twenty-five …

1. A motor vehicle may be registered as a replica vehicle or street rod. The annual registration fee is the fee provided for in section 321.109 , 321.113 , 321.122 , or 321.124 . The owner of a vehicle registered under this section may display registration plates from or represen…

1. For each battery electric motor vehicle subject to an annual registration fee under section 321.109, subsection 1 , paragraph “a” , and operated on the public highways of this state, the owner shall pay an annual battery electric motor vehicle registration fee, which shall be …

1. For all motorcycles and autocycles the annual registration fee shall be twenty dollars. For all motorized bicycles the annual registration fee shall be seven dollars. When the motorcycle or autocycle is more than five model years old, the annual registration fee shall be ten d…

For motor vehicles designed to carry nine passengers or more which are owned and used exclusively by a church or religious organization to transport passengers to and from activities of or sponsored by the church or religious organization and not operated for rent or hire for pur…

1. Notwithstanding section 321.11 , the department, upon request, shall provide personal information that identifies a person by the social security number of the person to the following: a. The department of revenue for the purposes of collecting debt and administering the setof…

1. The director may destroy any records of the department which have been maintained on file for three years and which the director deems obsolete and of no further service in carrying out the powers and duties of the department, except as otherwise provided in this section . 2. …

1. The annual registration fee for a business-trade truck shall be determined pursuant to section 321.122, subsection 1 , paragraph “a” . 2. Upon application for a new registration, an owner who registers a motor vehicle as a business-trade truck shall be required to provide proo…

1. a. Except as provided in paragraph “b” , the annual registration fee for a special truck with a gross weight of six tons shall be one hundred dollars, and the annual registration fee for a special truck with a gross weight exceeding six tons but not exceeding eighteen tons sha…

1. The annual registration fee for truck tractors, road tractors, and motor trucks, except 2010 and subsequent model year motor trucks required to be registered under section 321.109 and motor trucks registered as special trucks, shall be based on the combined gross weight of the…

1. a. All trailers except farm trailers, mobile homes, and manufactured homes, unless otherwise provided in this section , are subject to an annual registration fee as follows: (1) For trailers with an empty weight of two thousand pounds or less, the annual registration fee is tw…

1. Motor homes are classified as follows: a. Class A motor home means a truck chassis or special chassis upon which is built a driver’s compartment and an entire body which provides temporary living quarters. A class A motor home shall also mean a passenger carrying bus which has…

The exemption of a motor vehicle from an annual registration fee or a fee for new registration shall not exempt the operator of such vehicle from the performance of any other duty imposed on the operator by this chapter . [C24, 27, 31, 35, §4923; C39, § 5008.21; C46, 50, 54, 58, …

1. Refunds of unexpired annual vehicle registration fees shall be allowed in accordance with this section , except that no refund shall be allowed and paid if the unused portion of the fee is less than ten dollars. Paragraphs “a” and “b” do not apply to vehicles registered by the…

1. The refund of the annual registration fee for vehicles shall be computed on the basis of the number of unexpired months remaining in the registration year from date of filing of the claim for refund with the county treasurer, computed to the nearest dollar. 2. The department, …

The department may make the payments under sections 321.126 and 321.127 , when sufficient proof of such destruction by accident, or the junking and entire elimination of identity as a motor vehicle, theft, or storage by an owner entering the military service of the United States …

1. Whenever any application to the department is accompanied by a vehicle registration fee as required by law and the application is refused or rejected, the fee shall be returned to the applicant. 2. Whenever the department through error collects any vehicle registration fee not…

The department shall examine and determine the genuineness, regularity, and legality of every application made to the department, and may investigate or require additional information. The department may reject any application if not satisfied of the genuineness, regularity, or l…