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

1. The department shall make every effort to accommodate a commercial driver’s license applicant’s need to arrange an appointment for a driving skills test at an established test site other than where the applicant passed the required knowledge test. The department shall report t…

1. The department shall adopt rules to administer commercial driver’s licenses in compliance with the procedures set forth in 49 C.F.R. §383.73 . Before the department issues, renews, or upgrades a commercial driver’s license and in addition to the requirements of section 321.182…

1. Classification and issuance. a. Upon payment of the required fee, the department shall issue to every qualified applicant a driver’s license. Driver’s licenses shall be classified as follows: (1) Class A — Valid for the operation of vehicles with a gross combination weight rat…

1. The department may issue undercover driver’s licenses to certified peace officers employed by a local authority or by the state or federal law enforcement officers for use in the line of duty when a fictitious identity is necessary. The department, in cooperation with the comm…

A person selling at retail new implements of husbandry with a retail list price in excess of five thousand dollars upon which the manufacturer has affixed a vehicle identification number, shall maintain for ten years a record of the number, the name and address of the purchaser, …

1. a. The following vehicles are exempted from the payment of the registration fees imposed by this chapter , except as provided for urban transit companies in subsection 2 , but are not exempt from the penalties provided in this chapter : (1) All vehicles owned or leased for a p…

1. Application for and contents of card. a. The department shall, upon application and payment of the required fee, issue to an applicant a nonoperator’s identification card. To be valid the card shall bear a distinguishing number other than a social security number assigned to t…

1. Instruction permits. The fee for an instruction permit, other than a special instruction permit, chauffeur’s instruction permit, or commercial learner’s permit, is six dollars. The fee for a special instruction permit is ten dollars. The fee for a chauffeur’s instruction permi…

1. a. As provided by rule, the department may impose restrictions suitable to the licensee’s driving ability with respect to the type of motor vehicle or special mechanical control devices required on a motor vehicle which the licensee may operate or other restrictions applicable…

1. Application — persons eligible. The department may issue a special minor’s restricted license to an applicant between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years if the applicant meets all of the following conditions: a. The applicant holds an instruction permit issued by the depa…

A fee of ten dollars shall be charged for the replacement of a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card. If a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card issued under this chapter is lost or destroyed, the person to whom the license or card was issued must …

1. Except as otherwise provided, if the licensee is between the ages of seventeen years eleven months and seventy-eight years on the date of issuance of the license, a driver’s license, other than an instruction permit, chauffeur’s instruction permit, or commercial learner’s perm…

1. The department shall include in the electronic database used by the department and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver’s license information a collection of emergency contact information for persons who are issued a driver’s license or nonoperator’s ide…

1. a. The effective date of a valid driver’s license issued under the laws of this state, held by any person at the time of entering the military service of the United States or of the state of Iowa, notwithstanding the expiration of the license according to its terms, is extende…

The department shall file every application for a license received by it and shall maintain suitable indexes containing, in alphabetical order, all of the following: 1. All applications denied and the reasons for the denial. 2. All applications granted. 3. The name of every licen…

1. For purposes of this chapter there is a rebuttable presumption that a natural person is a resident of this state if any of the following elements exist: a. The person has filed for a homestead tax exemption on property in this state. b. The person is a veteran who has filed fo…

1. Except as otherwise provided by law, the state department of transportation shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter . 2. The division of state patrol of the department of public safety shall enforce the provisions of this chapter relating to traffic on the …

1. Except as provided in this chapter , an owner of a vehicle, or a lessor of a vehicle pursuant to chapter 321F which has a gross vehicle weight of less than ten thousand pounds, which is subject to registration, shall make application to any county treasurer for the initial reg…

The department shall also file all accident reports and abstracts of court records of convictions received by it under the laws of this state or any other state or foreign jurisdiction and in connection therewith maintain convenient records or make suitable notations in order tha…

1. If a person discovers a record of conviction for a scheduled violation under this chapter was entered by fraudulent use of the person’s name or by use of other fraudulent identification, the person may, within one year of the date of the discovery of the conviction, submit a w…

1. a. The department may cancel a driver’s license upon determination of any of the following: (1) That the licensee was not entitled to the issuance of the license. (2) That the licensee failed to give required or correct information or committed fraud in making the application.…

A nonresident’s privilege to operate a motor vehicle on a highway in this state is subject to suspension or revocation for the same reasons and in the same manner as suspension or revocation of a resident’s driver’s license and is also subject to suspension as provided in section…

1. The department is authorized, upon receiving a record of the conviction in this state of a nonresident operator of a motor vehicle for any offense under the motor vehicle laws of this state, to forward a certified written or electronic record of the conviction to the motor veh…

The department is authorized to suspend or revoke the driver’s license of a resident of this state or disqualify a resident of this state from operating a commercial motor vehicle for any of the following reasons: 1. Upon receiving notice of the conviction of the resident in anot…

If a person is convicted in court of an offense for which this chapter requires mandatory revocation of the person’s driver’s license or, if the person’s license is a commercial driver’s license or commercial learner’s permit and the conviction disqualifies the person from operat…

The department shall adopt rules for downgrading a commercial driver’s license or commercial learner’s permit to a noncommercial status upon a driver’s failure to provide a medical examiner’s certificate as required pursuant to section 321.188, subsection 1 , paragraph “d” , upon…

1. A person is disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle for one year upon a conviction or final administrative decision that the person has committed any of the following acts or offenses in any state or foreign jurisdiction while operating a commercial motor vehicl…

1. A person required to hold a commercial driver’s license or commercial learner’s permit to operate a commercial motor vehicle shall not operate a commercial motor vehicle on the highways of this state in violation of an out-of-service order issued by a peace officer for a viola…

The department, upon thirty days’ notice and without preliminary hearing, shall revoke the license or operating privilege of an operator upon receiving a record of the operator’s conviction for any of the following offenses, when such conviction has become final: 1. Manslaughter …

1. Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter , the owner of a commercial vehicle subject to the apportioned registration provisions of chapter 326 may make application to the department or any county treasurer for a certificate of title. The owner of a commercial vehicle p…

1. a. Notwithstanding chapter 321A , which requires certain persons to maintain proof of financial responsibility, a person shall not drive a motor vehicle on the highways of this state unless financial liability coverage, as defined in section 321.1, subsection 24B , is in effec…

1. a. The department is authorized to establish rules providing for the suspension of the license of an operator upon thirty days’ notice and without preliminary hearing upon a showing by its records or other sufficient evidence that the licensee: (1) Is an habitually reckless or…

1. The department shall suspend the driver’s license of a person who, upon conviction of violating a law regulating the operation of a motor vehicle, has failed to pay the criminal fine or penalty, surcharge, or court costs, as follows: a. Upon the failure of a person to timely p…

1. a. If a person’s fine, penalty, surcharge, or court cost is deemed delinquent as provided in section 602.8107, subsection 2 , and the person’s driver’s license has been suspended pursuant to section 321.210A , or the clerk of the district court has reported the delinquency to …

1. A person whose driver’s license or operating privileges have been suspended, revoked, or barred under this chapter for a conviction of a moving traffic violation, or suspended, revoked, or barred under section 321.205 or section 321.210, subsection 1 , paragraph “a” , subparag…

1. If a trial information or indictment is filed charging a person with the offense of homicide by vehicle under section 707.6A, subsection 1 or 2 , the clerk of the district court shall, upon the filing of the information or indictment, forward notice to the department including…

1. Upon suspending the license of a person as authorized, the department shall immediately notify the licensee in writing and upon the licensee’s request shall afford the licensee an opportunity for a hearing before the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing as early a…

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if a person was not served with notice of a suspension or revocation under section 321.16 , or section 321J.9, subsection 4 , or section 321J.12, subsection 3 , the person may appeal to the department an extension of the perio…

1. a. (1) Except as provided in section 321.210A or 321.513 the department shall not suspend a license for a period of more than one year, except that a license suspended because of incompetency to drive a motor vehicle shall be suspended until the department receives satisfactor…

Upon the entering of a dispositional order suspending or revoking the driver’s license or operating privileges of the juvenile under section 232.52, subsection 2 , paragraph “a” , the clerk of the juvenile court shall forward a copy of the adjudication and the dispositional order…

Upon the entering of a dispositional order under section 232.52, subsection 2 , paragraph “a” , the clerk of the juvenile court shall forward a copy of the adjudication and the dispositional order suspending or revoking the driver’s license or operating privileges of the juvenile…

The department shall establish procedures by rule for suspending the license of a juvenile who has been issued a driver’s license and is not in compliance with the requirements of section 299.1B and issuing the juvenile a restricted work license under section 321.178 . 94 Acts, c…

1. a. The department, on application, may issue a temporary restricted license to a person whose noncommercial driver’s license is suspended or revoked under this chapter , allowing the person to drive to and from the person’s home and specified places at specified times which ca…

It is a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled violation under section 805.8A, subsection 4 , for any person: 1. To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in the person’s possession a canceled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered driver’s lic…

It is a serious misdemeanor for a person to do any of the following: 1. Make a driver’s license, a nonoperator’s vehicle identification card, or a blank driver’s license form if the person has no authority or right to make the license, card, or form. 2. Obtain, possess, or have i…

1. A person who is under the age of twenty-one, who alters or displays or has in the person’s possession a fictitious or fraudulently altered driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card and who uses the license to violate or attempt to violate section 123.47 , commits a…