1. A person is disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle for one year upon a conviction or final administrative decision that the person while operating a commercial motor vehicle has committed any of the following acts or offenses in any state or foreign jurisdiction:
a. Operating a commercial motor vehicle while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or other drug or controlled substance or a combination of such substances.
b. Operating a commercial motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration, as defined in section 321J.1, of 0.04 or more.
c. Refusal to submit to chemical testing required under chapter 321J.
d. Failure to stop and render aid at the scene of an accident involving the person's vehicle.
e. A felony or aggravated misdemeanor involving the use of a commercial motor vehicle other than an offense involving manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance.
However, a person is disqualified for three years if the act or offense occurred while the person was operating a commercial motor vehicle transporting hazardous material of a type or quantity requiring vehicle placarding.
2. A person is disqualified for life if convicted or found to have committed two or more of the above acts or offenses arising out of two or more separate incidents. However, a disqualification for life is subject to a reduction to a ten- year disqualification as provided in 49 C.F.R. § 383.51 adopted as of a specific date by rule by the department.
3. A person is disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle for the person's life upon a conviction that the person used a commercial motor vehicle in the commission of a felony or aggravated misdemeanor involving the manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing of a controlled substance as defined in section 124.101.
4. A person is disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle if the person receives convictions for committing within any three-year period two or more of the following offenses while operating a commercial motor vehicle:
a. Speeding fifteen miles per hour or more over the legal speed limit.
b. Reckless driving.
c. Any violation of the traffic laws, except a parking violation or a vehicle weight violation, which arises in connection with a fatal traffic accident.
d. Operating a commercial motor vehicle when not issued a motor vehicle license valid for the vehicle operated.
e. Operating a commercial motor vehicle upon a highway when disqualified.
f. Operating a commercial motor vehicle upon a highway without immediate possession of a motor vehicle license valid for the vehicle operated.
g. Following another motor vehicle too closely.
h. Improper lane changes in violation of section 321.306.
The period of disqualification under this subsection shall be sixty days for two offenses within any three-year period and one hundred twenty days for three offenses within any three-year period.
5. A person is disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle when the person's driving privilege is suspended or revoked.
6. A person is disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle:
a. For ninety days upon conviction for the first violation of an out-of-service order; for one year, upon conviction for a second violation of an out-of-service order in separate incidents within a ten-year period; and for not less than three and not more than five years upon conviction for a third or subsequent violation of an out-of-service order in separate incidents within a ten-year period.
b. For one year upon conviction for the first violation and for not less than three years and not more than five years upon conviction for a second or subsequent violation of an out-of-service order while transporting hazardous materials required to be placarded, or while operating a commercial motor vehicle designed to transport more than fifteen passengers including the driver.
7. Upon receiving a record of a person's disqualifying conviction, administrative decision, suspension, or revocation, the department shall, by rule, without preliminary hearing and upon twenty days' advance notice, disqualify the person from operating a commercial motor vehicle upon a highway.
8. A person is disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle if the person either refuses to submit to chemical testing required under chapter 321J or submits to chemical testing and the results show an alcohol concentration as defined in section 321J.1 of 0.04 or more. The department, upon receipt of the peace officer's certification, subject to penalty for perjury, that the peace officer had reasonable grounds to believe the person to have been operating a commercial motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or more and that the person refused to submit to the chemical testing or submitted to chemical testing and the results show an alcohol concentration as defined in section 321J.1 of 0.04 or more, shall, without preliminary hearing and upon twenty days' advance notice, disqualify the person from operating a commercial motor vehicle upon a highway.
The effective date of disqualification shall be twenty days after notification. Immediate notice of disqualification may be served on a person operating a commercial motor vehicle who refused to submit to a test or whose test results indicate an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or more by the peace officer administering the chemical test or the department may notify the person by certified mail. If immediate notice is served, the peace officer shall take the commercial driver's license or permit of the driver, if issued within the state, and issue a temporary commercial driver's license effective for only twenty days. The peace officer shall immediately send the person's commercial driver's license to the department in addition to the officer's certification required by this subsection.
9. Upon notice, the disqualified person shall surrender the person's commercial driver's license to the department and the department may issue a driver's license valid only to operate a noncommercial motor vehicle upon payment of a one dollar fee. The department shall notify the commercial driver's license information system of the disqualification if required to do so under section 321.204.
10. Notwithstanding the Iowa administrative procedure Act, the filing of a petition for judicial review shall stay the disqualification pending the determination by the district court.
11. The department may reinstate a qualified person's privilege to operate a commercial motor vehicle after a period of disqualification and after payment of required fees.
12. As used in this section, the terms "acts", "actions", and "offenses" mean acts, actions, or offenses which occur on or after July 1, 1990.
[C39, § 5014.08; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.208]
90 Acts, ch 1230, § 51; 92 Acts, ch 1175, § 24--;26; 95 Acts, ch 55, §6
Referred to in §321.204, 321.215, 321.218, 321A.17, 321J.8
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