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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 97B.49, subsection 16, paragraph d,
  1  2 subparagraph (7), Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (7)  An employee of the state department of transportation
  1  4 who is designated as a "peace officer" by resolution under
  1  5 section 321.477, but only if the employee retires on or after
  1  6 July 1, 1990.  For purposes of this subparagraph, service as a
  1  7 traffic weight officer employed by the highway commission
  1  8 prior to the creation of the state department of
  1  9 transportation or as a peace officer employed by the Iowa
  1 10 state commerce commission prior to the creation of the state
  1 11 department of transportation shall be included in computing
  1 12 the employee's years of membership service.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 321.1, subsection 50, Code 1995, is
  1 14 amended to read as follows:
  1 15    50.  "Peace officer" means every officer authorized to
  1 16 direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations
  1 17 of traffic regulations in addition to its meaning in carry out
  1 18 and enforce all laws of the state and the rules and
  1 19 regulations of the department or any other peace officer
  1 20 included in the definition of peace officers under section
  1 21 801.4.
  1 22    Sec. 3.  Section 321.465, unnumbered paragraph 4, Code
  1 23 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  1 24    Upon weighing a vehicle and load, as above provided, if
  1 25 such If the load is a sealed load, the weight peace officer
  1 26 shall issue a certificate setting forth the weights as
  1 27 determined by the weight peace officer and the seal number or
  1 28 numbers, if requested by the operator.
  1 29    Sec. 4.  Section 321.477, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  1 30 follows:
  1 31    321.477  EMPLOYEES AS PEACE OFFICERS.
  1 32    The department may shall designate by resolution as peace
  1 33 officers certain of its full-time employees upon each of whom
  1 34 there is hereby conferred who shall have the authority of a
  1 35 peace officer to control and direct to carry out and enforce
  2  1 all laws of the state and rules and regulations of the
  2  2 department.  Each designated employee's peace officer
  2  3 authority shall include, but not be limited to, controlling
  2  4 and directing traffic and weigh, weighing vehicles, and to
  2  5 make making arrests for violations of the motor vehicle laws
  2  6 relating to the operating authority, registration, size,
  2  7 weight, and load of motor vehicles and trailers and
  2  8 registration of a motor carrier's interstate transportation
  2  9 service with the department.
  2 10    Sec. 5.  Section 327B.2, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  2 11 follows:
  2 12    327B.2  ENFORCEMENT.
  2 13    The state State department of transportation may designate
  2 14 by resolution certain of its employees upon each of whom there
  2 15 is hereby conferred employees designated as peace officers
  2 16 under section 321.477 shall have the authority of a peace
  2 17 officer to make arrests for violations of laws relating to the
  2 18 registration of a motor carrier's interstate transportation
  2 19 service with the state department of transportation.
  2 20    Sec. 6.  Section 452A.76, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code
  2 21 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  2 22    Authority to enforce division III is given to the state
  2 23 department of transportation.  Employees of designated by the
  2 24 state department of transportation designated enforcement
  2 25 employees shall have the power of peace officers in the
  2 26 performance of their duties; however, they shall not be
  2 27 considered members of the Iowa highway safety patrol.  The
  2 28 department of transportation shall furnish enforcement peace
  2 29 officer employees with necessary equipment and supplies in the
  2 30 same manner as provided in section 80.18, including uniforms
  2 31 which are distinguishable in color and design from those of
  2 32 the Iowa highway safety patrol.  Enforcement Peace officer
  2 33 employees shall be furnished and shall conspicuously display
  2 34 badges of authority.
  2 35    Sec. 7.  Section 801.4, subsection 11, paragraph h, Code
  3  1 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  3  2    h.  Such employees Employees of the state department of
  3  3 transportation as who are designated as "peace officers" by
  3  4 resolution of the department under section 321.477.
  3  5    Sec. 8.  MOTOR VEHICLE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.  The office of
  3  6 motor vehicle enforcement of the motor vehicle division of the
  3  7 state department of transportation shall be transferred to the
  3  8 division of highway safety and uniformed force of the
  3  9 department of public safety, effective July 1, 1995.  The
  3 10 appropriations, grants, motor vehicles, equipment, supplies,
  3 11 and records of or used by the employees of the office of motor
  3 12 vehicle enforcement of the state department of transportation
  3 13 shall also be transferred to the department of public safety,
  3 14 effective July 1, 1995.  All references in the Code which
  3 15 authorize the motor vehicle enforcement office of the motor
  3 16 vehicle division of the state department of transportation to
  3 17 perform enforcement-related duties shall be considered
  3 18 authority for the transferred employees to perform those same
  3 19 enforcement-related duties as employees of the division of
  3 20 highway safety and uniformed force of the department of public
  3 21 safety.  The commissioner of public safety and the director of
  3 22 transportation shall work jointly to implement the transfer
  3 23 authorized under this section.  
  3 24                           EXPLANATION
  3 25    This bill gives full-time employees designated by the state
  3 26 department of transportation the same authority as a peace
  3 27 officer to enforce all the laws of the state of Iowa.  It
  3 28 eliminates a requirement that the department designate
  3 29 employees by resolution and allows them to simply designate an
  3 30 employee who will have peace officer status.  The bill
  3 31 provides for the transfer of the office of motor vehicle
  3 32 enforcement of the motor vehicle division of the state
  3 33 department of transportation to the division of highway safety
  3 34 and uniformed force of the department of public safety,
  3 35 effective July 1, 1995.  The bill also makes other technical
  4  1 changes.  
  4  2 LSB 1167HV 76
  4  3 js/jj/8
     
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