326.2 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Commercial vehicle” means any vehicle which is operated in interstate commerce or combined intrastate and interstate commerce and used for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, or designed or used primarily for the transportation of property.
2. “Department” means the department of transportation.
3. “Director” means the director of transportation or the director’s designee.
4. “International registration plan” or “plan” means the registration reciprocity agreement among states of the United States, the District of Columbia, and provinces of Canada providing for payment of apportionable fees on the basis of total distance operated in all jurisdictions, in effect on January 1, 2011, or as later amended, published by international registration plan, inc., and available on the plan’s internet site.
5. “Registration fee” means the annual motor vehicle registration fee imposed pursuant to section 321.105, unless otherwise specified.
6. “Trip” for purposes of section 326.23 means:
a. A one-way movement from one point originating outside this state and destined for another point outside this state.
b. A round-trip movement between two points within this state.
c. A round-trip movement originating in this state or destined for a point within this state.
7. The terms “combination” or “combination of vehicles”, “gross weight”, “highway”, “motor vehicle”, “nonresident”, “owner”, “person”, “semitrailer”, “trailer”, “truck tractor”, and “vehicle” mean as defined in section 321.1.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §326.2]
2006 Acts, ch 1068, §40; 2008 Acts, ch 1113, §109; 2012 Acts, ch 1093, §17; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §71
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 326 - REGISTRATION RECIPROCITY
Section 326.3 - Additional definitions.
Section 326.5 - Reciprocity agreements.
Section 326.6 - Apportionable registration fees.
Section 326.7 - Agreements on basis of compact miles.
Section 326.8 - Estimating mileage.
Section 326.9 - Individual vehicles not to be proportionally registered.
Section 326.11 - Subsequently acquired vehicles.
Section 326.12 - Vehicles deleted — registration transferred.
Section 326.13 - Information under oath.
Section 326.14 - Credentials — registration year and renewal — penalty.
Section 326.15 - Refunds of registration fees.
Section 326.16 - Delinquent fees.
Section 326.17 - Iowa base plates.
Section 326.18 - Nonresident fleet owner privileges.
Section 326.19 - Records preserved — audits.
Section 326.19A - Failure to maintain operational records — penalty.
Section 326.20 - Benefits extended to leased vehicles.
Section 326.21 - Laws of other jurisdictions — Iowa interests.
Section 326.22 - Operational laws of Iowa applicable.
Section 326.23 - Trip permits.
Section 326.24 - Registration denied or suspended.
Section 326.25 - Applications — investigations.
Section 326.27 - Violations to negate agreements.
Section 326.28 - Copies of records — fee.
Section 326.29 - Fees to road use tax fund.
Section 326.30 - Motor vehicle law applicable.
Section 326.31 - Filing incorrect information — effect.
Section 326.32 - Additional fees or restrictions by other jurisdictions — effect.