House File 205
HOUSE FILE
BY S. OLSON
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to salvage theft examination fees.
2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
3 TLSB 2266HH 80
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1 1 Section 1. Section 321.52, subsection 4, paragraph c,
1 2 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2003, is amended to read as
1 3 follows:
1 4 A salvage theft examination shall be made by a peace
1 5 officer who has been specially certified and recertified when
1 6 required by the Iowa law enforcement academy to do salvage
1 7 theft examinations. The Iowa law enforcement academy shall
1 8 determine standards for training and certification, conduct
1 9 training, and may approve alternative training programs which
1 10 that satisfy the academy's standards for training and
1 11 certification. The owner of the salvage vehicle shall make
1 12 the vehicle available for examination at a time and location
1 13 designated by the peace officer doing the examination. The
1 14 owner may obtain a permit to drive the vehicle to and from the
1 15 examination location by submitting a repair affidavit to the
1 16 agency performing the examination stating that the vehicle is
1 17 reasonably safe for operation and listing the repairs which
1 18 have been made to the vehicle. The owner must be present for
1 19 the examination and have available for inspection the salvage
1 20 title, bills of sale for all essential parts changed, and the
1 21 repair affidavit. The examination shall be for the purposes
1 22 of determining whether the vehicle or repair components have
1 23 been stolen. The examination is not a safety inspection and a
1 24 signed salvage theft examination certificate shall not be
1 25 construed by any court of law to be a certification that the
1 26 vehicle is safe to be operated. There shall be no cause of
1 27 action against the peace officer or the agency conducting the
1 28 examination or the county treasurer for failure to discover or
1 29 note safety defects. If the vehicle passes the theft
1 30 examination, the peace officer shall indicate that the vehicle
1 31 passed examination on the salvage theft examination
1 32 certificate. The permit and salvage theft examination
1 33 certificate shall be on controlled forms prescribed and
1 34 furnished by the department. The owner shall pay a fee of
1 35 thirty fifty dollars upon completion of the examination. The
2 1 agency performing the examinations shall retain twenty forty
2 2 dollars of the fee and shall pay five dollars of the fee to
2 3 the department and five dollars of the fee to the treasurer of
2 4 state for deposit in the general fund of the state. Moneys
2 5 deposited to the general fund under this paragraph are subject
2 6 to the requirements of section 8.60 and shall be used by the
2 7 Iowa law enforcement academy to provide for the special
2 8 training, certification, and recertification of officers as
2 9 required by this subsection.
2 10 EXPLANATION
2 11 This bill increases the fee an owner of a salvage vehicle
2 12 must pay for a salvage theft examination conducted by a
2 13 specially certified peace officer from $30 to $50. The agency
2 14 performing the examination is to keep $40 of the fee rather
2 15 than $20. The Code provides that the owner of a salvage
2 16 vehicle must present a properly executed salvage theft
2 17 examination certificate showing that the vehicle and none of
2 18 its repair components have been stolen in order to receive a
2 19 regular certificate of title.
2 20 LSB 2266HH 80
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