Senate File 2159 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY WARD
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to identification of publicly owned motor
2 vehicles used by persons who provide off=site or in=home
3 medical or mental health services.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 321.19, subsection 1, unnumbered
1 2 paragraph 2, Code Supplement 2005, 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 state patrol vehicles shall bear
1 7 the word "official" and the department shall keep a separate
1 8 record. Registration plates issued for state patrol vehicles,
1 9 except unmarked patrol vehicles, shall bear two red stars on a
1 10 yellow background, one before and one following the
1 11 registration number on the plate, which registration number
1 12 shall be the officer's badge number. Registration plates
1 13 issued for county sheriff's patrol vehicles shall display one
1 14 seven=pointed gold star followed by the letter "S" and the
1 15 call number of the vehicle. However, the director of the
1 16 department of administrative 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, disease investigators of the Iowa
1 23 department of public health, the department of inspections and
1 24 appeals, and the department of revenue, who are regularly
1 25 assigned to conduct investigations which cannot reasonably be
1 26 conducted with a vehicle displaying "official" state
1 27 registration plates, persons in the Iowa lottery authority
1 28 whose regularly assigned duties relating to security or the
1 29 carrying of lottery tickets cannot reasonably be conducted
1 30 with a vehicle displaying "official" registration plates, and
1 31 persons in the department of economic development who are
1 32 regularly assigned duties relating to existing industry
1 33 expansion or business attraction, and mental health
1 34 professionals or health care professionals who provide off=
1 35 site or in=home medical or mental health services to clients
2 1 of publicly funded programs. For purposes of sale of exempted
2 2 vehicles, the exempted governmental body, upon the sale of the
2 3 exempted vehicle, may issue for in=transit purposes a
2 4 pasteboard card bearing the words "Vehicle in Transit", the
2 5 name of the official body from which the vehicle was
2 6 purchased, together with the date of the purchase plainly
2 7 marked in at least one=inch letters, and other information
2 8 required by the department. The in=transit card is valid for
2 9 use only within forty=eight hours after the purchase date as
2 10 indicated on the bill of sale which shall be carried by the
2 11 driver.
2 12 EXPLANATION
2 13 This bill allows the issuance of regular registration
2 14 plates, rather than plates bearing the word "official", for
2 15 certain publicly owned motor vehicles used by health care and
2 16 mental health professionals who provide off=site or in=home
2 17 medical or mental health services. In addition, such vehicles
2 18 would no longer be required to be labeled as publicly owned
2 19 vehicles.
2 20 Current law exempts vehicles owned or leased by a
2 21 governmental agency from vehicle registration fees, but
2 22 requires issuance of distinguishing plates identifying such
2 23 vehicles as official vehicles. The state department of
2 24 transportation or the director of the department of
2 25 administrative services may order the issuance of regular
2 26 registration plates for vehicles operated by certain
2 27 individuals whose business cannot reasonably be conducted in a
2 28 vehicle marked "official". Those government vehicles bearing
2 29 regular registration plates are also exempt from the labeling
2 30 requirements of Code section 721.8 applicable to publicly
2 31 owned vehicles.
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