321E.26 Transportation of raw forest products.
1. The department may issue annual permits for the operation of a vehicle or combination of vehicles transporting divisible loads of raw forest products from fields to storage, processing, or other commercial facilities. The combined gross weight or gross weight on any one axle or group of axles on a vehicle or combination of vehicles issued a permit under this section may exceed the maximum weights specified in section 321.463, if the gross weight on any one axle does not exceed the limitations specified in section 321E.7.
2. A vehicle or combination of vehicles for which a permit is issued under this section shall not exceed the maximum dimensions specified in sections 321.454 through 321.457.
3. A vehicle or combination of vehicles for which a permit is issued under this section shall not travel on any portion of the interstate highway system.
4. Notwithstanding section 321E.3 or any other provision of law to the contrary, a permit issued by the department pursuant to this section is valid for the operation of a vehicle or combination of vehicles on a nonprimary highway if the local authority having jurisdiction over the nonprimary highway has approved the route within the local authority’s jurisdiction used by the vehicle or combination of vehicles traveling under the permit.
5. For the purposes of this section, “raw forest products” means logs, pilings, posts, poles, cordwood products, wood chips, sawdust, pulpwood, intermediary lumber, fuel wood, mulch, tree bark, and Christmas trees not altered by a manufacturing process off the land, sawmill, or factory from which the products were taken.
2019 Acts, ch 158, §6
Referred to in §321.463, 321E.7, 321E.9, 321E.14
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 321E - VEHICLES OF EXCESSIVE SIZE AND WEIGHT
Section 321E.2 - Permits by department and local authorities.
Section 321E.3 - Permit-issuing authorities.
Section 321E.7 - Load limits per axle.
Section 321E.8 - Annual permits.
Section 321E.8A - Self-propelled implement of husbandry — annual permit.
Section 321E.9 - Single-trip permits.
Section 321E.9A - Multi-trip permits.
Section 321E.9B - Special alternative energy multi-trip permit.
Section 321E.10 - Semitrailers and trailers manufactured in Iowa.
Section 321E.11 - Movement under permit — penalty.
Section 321E.12 - Registration must be consistent.
Section 321E.13 - Financial responsibility.
Section 321E.14 - Fees for permits.
Section 321E.15 - Rules made available.
Section 321E.16 - Violations — penalties.
Section 321E.17 - Serious violations.
Section 321E.18 - Overall operations considered.
Section 321E.19 - Permit denial, change, suspension, or revocation.
Section 321E.20 - Suspension period.
Section 321E.21 - Process on nonresidents.
Section 321E.22 - Service of process.
Section 321E.23 - Failure to receive copy of process.
Section 321E.24 - Warning and lighting devices on oversize loads.
Section 321E.25 - Use of highways of interstate system.
Section 321E.26 - Transportation of raw forest products.
Section 321E.27 - Special permits — relief supplies during periods of national emergency.
Section 321E.28 - Permits for manufactured or mobile homes or factory-built structures.
Section 321E.29 - Excess size divisible load permits.
Section 321E.29A - Raw milk transporters.
Section 321E.29B - Fluid milk products annual permit.
Section 321E.30 - Compacted rubbish transporters.
Section 321E.31 - Permit for moving certain manufactured or mobile homes.
Section 321E.32 - Movement of structures and other loads on dolly axles.