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

The driver of a motor vehicle shall not drive with the source of motive power disengaged from the driving wheels except when disengagement is necessary to stop or to shift gears. [C39, § 5031.04, 5031.05; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §321.365, 321.366; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.3…

1. It is unlawful for a person, except a person operating highway maintenance equipment or an authorized emergency vehicle, to do any of the following on a fully controlled-access facility: a. Drive a vehicle over, upon, or across a curb, central dividing section, or other separa…

1. The driver of a vehicle who is exercising due care and who injures another person who is participating in a protest, demonstration, riot, or unlawful assembly or who is engaging in disorderly conduct and is blocking traffic in a public street or highway shall be immune from ci…

The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than five hundred feet or drive into or park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm. [C…

No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street, private driveway, or streetcar track, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in command. [C39, § 5031.07; C46, 50, 54, 58,…

A person shall not throw or deposit upon a highway any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, trash, garbage, rubbish, litter, offal, or any other debris. A person shall not throw or deposit upon a highway a substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon t…

1. Registration plates issued for a motor vehicle other than an autocycle, motorcycle, motorized bicycle, or truck tractor shall be attached to the motor vehicle, one in the front and the other in the rear. The registration plate issued for an autocycle, motorcycle, or other vehi…

Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown, upon any highway any destructive or injurious material and other material as defined in section 321.369 shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed. [C39, § 5031.09; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77,…

1. Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle. 2. A person who violates this section commits a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled violation under section …

This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Keep Aware Driving — Youth Need School Safety Act” . 1. a. The driver of a school bus used to transport children to and from a public or private school shall, when stopping to receive or discharge pupils, turn on flashing warni…

1. The driver of a school bus who observes a violation of section 321.372, subsection 3 , may prepare a written report on a form provided by the department of public safety indicating that a violation has occurred. The school bus driver or a school official may deliver the report…

1. Every school bus except private passenger vehicles used as school buses shall be constructed and equipped to meet safety standards prescribed in rules adopted by the state board of education. Such rules shall conform to safety standards set forth in federal laws and regulation…

No vehicle shall be put into service as a school bus until it is given an original inspection to determine if it meets all legal and established uniform standards of construction for the protection of the health and safety of children to be transported. Vehicles which are approve…

1. A driver of a school bus must meet all of the following requirements: a. Be at least eighteen years of age. b. Be physically and mentally competent. c. Not possess personal or moral habits which would be detrimental to the best interests of the safety and welfare of the childr…

1. a. In addition to meeting the qualifications under section 321.375 , a driver of a school bus shall hold a commercial driver’s license issued by the department of transportation with a passenger endorsement and a school bus endorsement. b. If required by the school district, a…

A vehicle operated by a regional transit system as defined in section 324A.1 may only provide school transportation services pursuant to rules adopted by the state department of transportation in consultation with the department of education. 99 Acts, ch 13, §15 Referred to in §3…

The provisions of sections 321.372 through 321.377 , this section , and sections 321.379 and 321.380 , shall apply to all public and nonpublic schools where children are transported to and from school. [C39, § 5032.07; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.378 ] 2…

A school board, individual, or organization shall not purchase, construct, or contract for use, to transport pupils to or from school, any school bus which does not comply with the minimum requirements of section 321.373 and any individual, or any member or officer of such board …

Every registration plate shall at all times be securely fastened in a horizontal position to the vehicle for which it is issued so as to prevent the plate from swinging and at a height of not less than twelve inches from the ground, measuring from the bottom of the plate, in a pl…

It shall be the duty of all peace officers and of the state patrol to enforce the provisions of sections 321.372 through 321.379 . [C39, § 5032.09; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.380 ] 98 Acts, ch 1074, §24 ; 2005 Acts, ch 35, §31 ; 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §150…

It is a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled violation under section 805.8A, subsection 3 , for any person to drive or move or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in such unsafe co…

A low-speed vehicle shall not be operated on a street with a posted speed limit greater than thirty-five miles per hour. This section shall not prohibit a low-speed vehicle from crossing a street with a posted speed limit greater than thirty-five miles per hour. 2000 Acts, ch 100…

A motor vehicle or combination of vehicles, which cannot proceed up a three percent grade, on dry concrete pavement, at a minimum speed of twenty miles per hour, shall not be operated upon the highways of this state. [C39, § 5033.02; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 8…

1. This chapter with respect to equipment on vehicles does not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery, or bulk spreaders and other fertilizer and chemical equipment defined as special mobile equipment, except as made applicable in this section . However, the movement of…

1. Every motor vehicle upon a highway within the state, at any time from sunset to sunrise, and at such other times when conditions such as fog, snow, sleet, or rain provide insufficient lighting to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of f…

Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, motorized bicycle, or all-terrain vehicle shall be equipped with at least two headlamps with at least one on each side of the front of the motor vehicle, which headlamps shall comply with the requirements and limitations set forth in t…

1. a. A citation issued for failure to have headlamps as required under section 321.385 shall first provide for a seventy-two hour period within which the person charged with the violation shall replace or repair the headlamp. b. A citation issued for failure to have rear lamps a…

Every motorcycle, motorized bicycle, and all-terrain vehicle shall be equipped with at least one and not more than two headlamps which shall comply with the requirements and limitations of this chapter . [S13, §1571-m17; C24, 27, 31, 35, §5047; C39, § 5033.06; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62…

Every motor vehicle and every vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles shall be equipped with a lighted rear lamp or lamps, exhibiting a red light plainly visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear. All lamps and lighting equipment originally m…

Either the rear lamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear. When the rear registration plate is illuminated by an electric lamp …

Every new motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer sold and every commercial vehicle operated on a highway shall be equipped at the rear, either as a part of the rear lamp or separately, with a red reflector meeting the requirements of this chapter . [C39, § 5033.09; C46, 50, 54, 5…

Except as provided in this chapter every vehicle registration, registration card, and registration plate shall expire as follows: 1. For vehicles registered by the county treasurer, at midnight on the last day of the registration year. A person shall not be considered to be drivi…

Whenever a red reflector is required or permitted to be used in substitution of lamps upon a vehicle under any one of the provisions of this chapter , such reflector shall be mounted upon the vehicle at a height not to exceed forty-two inches nor less than twenty inches above the…

Every motor truck, and every trailer or semitrailer of over three thousand pounds gross weight, shall be equipped with the following lighting devices and reflectors in addition to other requirements of this chapter , and such devices shall be lighted at the times mentioned in sec…

1. A lighting device or reflector, when mounted on or near the front of a motor truck or trailer, except a school bus, shall not display any other color than white, yellow, or amber. 2. No lighting device or reflector, when mounted on or near the rear of any motor truck or traile…

Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear four feet or more beyond the bed or body of such vehicle there shall be displayed at the extreme rear end of the load, at the times specified in section 321.384 , a red light or lantern plainly visible from a distance of at l…

Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway or shoulder adjacent to the roadway, outside of a business district whether attended or unattended during the times mentioned in section 321.384 , such vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lamps which shall exhibit a wh…

Section 321.395 shall not apply when an accident extinguishes said light and renders a vehicle incapable of use, and when the person in control of the vehicle erects, at the earliest opportunity after the accident, such proper light at or near the vehicle as will give warning of …

Every bicycle shall be equipped with a lamp on the front exhibiting a white light, at the times specified in section 321.384 , visible from a distance of at least three hundred feet to the front and with a lamp on the rear exhibiting a red light visible from a distance of three h…

All vehicles, including animal-drawn vehicles and including those referred to in section 321.383 not specifically required to be equipped with lamps, shall at the times specified in section 321.384 be equipped with at least one lighted lamp or lantern exhibiting a white light vis…

The commissioner of public safety is authorized to adopt and promulgate administrative rules governing procedures as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter ; and to carry out any other laws the enforcement of which is vested in the department of public safet…

1. Application for renewal for a vehicle registered under this chapter shall be made on or after the first day of the month prior to the month of expiration of registration and up to and including the last day of the month following the month of expiration of registration. The ap…

Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed one spot lamp and every lighted spot lamp shall be so aimed and used upon approaching another vehicle that no part of the high-intensity portion of the beam will be directed to the left of the prolongation of the extreme left s…

Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed three auxiliary driving lamps mounted on the front at a height not less than twelve inches nor more than forty-two inches above the level surface upon which the vehicle stands, and every such auxiliary driving lamp or lamps sha…

Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a signal lamp or signal device which is so constructed and located on the vehicle as to give a signal of intention to stop, which shall be red or yellow in color, which signal shall be plainly visible and understandable in normal sunligh…

1. A person shall not operate a motor vehicle, motorcycle, or motorized bicycle on the highways of this state if it is equipped with a device that restricts the light output of a headlamp required under section 321.385 or 321.386 , a rear lamp required under section 321.387 , a s…