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House Study Bill 539

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.19, subsection 1, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 2, Code Supplement 1997, is amended to read as
  1  3 follows:
  1  4    The department shall furnish, on application, free of
  1  5 charge, distinguishing plates for vehicles thus exempted,
  1  6 which plates except plates on Iowa highway safety patrol
  1  7 vehicles shall bear the word "official" and the department
  1  8 shall keep a separate record.  Registration plates issued for
  1  9 Iowa highway safety patrol vehicles, except unmarked patrol
  1 10 vehicles, shall bear two red stars on a yellow background, one
  1 11 before and one following the registration number on the plate,
  1 12 which registration number shall be the officer's badge number.
  1 13 Registration plates issued for a county sheriff's patrol
  1 14 vehicles shall display one seven-pointed gold star followed by
  1 15 the letter "S" and the call number of the vehicle.  However,
  1 16 the director of general services or the director of
  1 17 transportation may order the issuance of regular registration
  1 18 plates for any exempted vehicle used by peace officers in the
  1 19 enforcement of the law, persons enforcing chapter 124 and
  1 20 other laws relating to controlled substances, persons in the
  1 21 department of justice, the alcoholic beverages division of the
  1 22 department of commerce, the department of inspections and
  1 23 appeals, and the department of revenue and finance, who are
  1 24 regularly assigned to conduct investigations which cannot
  1 25 reasonably be conducted with a vehicle displaying "official"
  1 26 state registration plates, and persons in the lottery division
  1 27 of the department of revenue and finance whose regularly
  1 28 assigned duties relating to security or the carrying of
  1 29 lottery tickets cannot reasonably be conducted with a vehicle
  1 30 displaying "official" registration plates, and persons in the
  1 31 department of economic development who regularly conduct
  1 32 business development efforts.  For purposes of sale of
  1 33 exempted vehicles, the exempted governmental body, upon the
  1 34 sale of the exempted vehicle, may issue for in-transit
  1 35 purposes a pasteboard card bearing the words "Vehicle in
  2  1 Transit", the name of the official body from which the vehicle
  2  2 was purchased, together with the date of the purchase plainly
  2  3 marked in at least one-inch letters, and other information
  2  4 required by the department.  The in-transit card is valid for
  2  5 use only within forty-eight hours after the purchase date as
  2  6 indicated on the bill of sale which shall be carried by the
  2  7 driver.  
  2  8                           EXPLANATION
  2  9    This bill relates to the ability of the department of
  2 10 general services or the department of transportation to order
  2 11 the issuance of regular registration plates for certain
  2 12 exempted vehicles.  The bill adds vehicles used by persons in
  2 13 the department of economic development who regularly conduct
  2 14 business development efforts to the list of exempted vehicles.
  2 15 If a vehicle is not exempt, the registration plate bears the
  2 16 word "official".  
  2 17 LSB 3309DP 77
  2 18 tm/jw/5
     

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