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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.1, subsection 39, paragraph b, Code
  1  2 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    b.  "Travel trailer" means a vehicle without motive power
  1  4 used, or so manufactured, or constructed as to permit its
  1  5 being used use as a conveyance upon the public streets and
  1  6 highways and so designed to permit the vehicle to be used its
  1  7 use as a place of human habitation by one or more persons.
  1  8 Said The vehicle may be up to eight feet six inches in width
  1  9 and its overall length shall not exceed forty feet.  Such The
  1 10 vehicle shall be customarily or ordinarily used for vacation
  1 11 or recreational purposes and not used as a place of permanent
  1 12 habitation.  If any such the vehicle is used in this state as
  1 13 a place of human habitation for more than ninety consecutive
  1 14 days in one location it shall be classed as a mobile home
  1 15 regardless of the size limitations herein provided in this
  1 16 paragraph.  
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill conforms the statutory definition of travel
  1 19 trailer to the statutorily authorized width for travel
  1 20 trailers and certain other vehicles which is eight feet six
  1 21 inches.  Section 321.454 was amended in 1994 to provide that
  1 22 travel trailers having a total outside width not exceeding
  1 23 eight feet six inches are exempt from excessive size and
  1 24 weight permitting requirements of chapter 321E and may be
  1 25 operated on the roads of the state; however, the definition of
  1 26 travel trailer in section 321.1 was not amended.  
  1 27 LSB 1760SV 76
  1 28 js/cf/24
     
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