HF 2216 (LSB 5295HV (3) 85)

CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF OFF-ROAD UTILITY VEHICLE FOR PURPOSES OF REGULATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321I.1, subsection 17, paragraph a, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  “Off-road utility vehicle” means a motorized vehicle with not less than four and not more than eight nonhighway tires or rubberized tracks that is limited in engine displacement to less than one thousand five hundred cubic centimeters and in total dry weight to not more than two thousand pounds and that has a seat that is of bucket or bench design, not intended to be straddled by the operator, and a steering wheel or control levers for control.  “Off-road utility vehicle” includes the following vehicles:
   (1)  “Off-road utility vehicle —— type 1” means an off-road utility vehicle with a total dry weight of one thousand two hundred pounds or less and a width of fifty inches or less.
   (2)  “Off-road utility vehicle —— type 2” means an off-road utility vehicle, other than a type 1 off-road utility vehicle, with a total dry weight of two thousand pounds or less, and a width of sixty-five inches or less.
   (3)  “Off-road utility vehicle —— type 3” means an off-road utility vehicle with a total dry weight of more than two 

thousand pounds or a width of more than sixty-five inches, or both.

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KRAIG PAULSEN

Speaker of the House

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PAM JOCHUM

President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2216, Eighty-fifth General Assembly.

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CARMINE BOAL

Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2014

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD

Governor