Senate File 411 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY GRONSTAL AND IVERSON
(COMPANION TO LSB 3623HH
BY MURPHY AND GIPP)
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the applicability of motor vehicle financial
2 responsibility provisions to special mobile equipment and
3 providing an effective date.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. Section 321A.1, subsections 3 and 5, Code 2005,
1 2 are amended to read as follows:
1 3 3. JUDGMENT. A judgment which has become final by
1 4 expiration without appeal during the time within which an
1 5 appeal might have been perfected, or a judgment if an appeal
1 6 from the judgment has been perfected, which has not been
1 7 stayed by the execution, filing and approval of a bond as
1 8 provided in rule of appellate procedure 6.7(1), or a judgment
1 9 which has become final by affirmation on appeal, rendered by a
1 10 court of competent jurisdiction of a state or of the United
1 11 States, upon a cause of action arising out of the ownership,
1 12 maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle, except special mobile
1 13 equipment as defined in this section, for damages, including
1 14 damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily
1 15 injury to or death of a person, or for damages because of
1 16 injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of
1 17 use of property, or upon a cause of action on an agreement of
1 18 settlement for such damages.
1 19 5. MOTOR VEHICLE. "Motor vehicle" means every vehicle
1 20 which is self=propelled, but not including vehicles known as
1 21 trackless trolleys which are propelled by electric power
1 22 obtained from overhead trolley wires, but and not operated
1 23 upon rails. The term "car" or "automobile" shall be
1 24 synonymous with the term "motor vehicle". "Motor vehicle"
1 25 does not include special mobile equipment as defined in this
1 26 section.
1 27 Sec. 2. Section 321A.1, Code 2005, is amended by adding
1 28 the following new subsection:
1 29 NEW SUBSECTION. 12A. SPECIAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT. "Special
1 30 mobile equipment" means every self=propelled road construction
1 31 vehicle, road maintenance vehicle, and ditch=digging apparatus
1 32 not designed or used primarily for the transportation of
1 33 persons or property and incidentally operated or moved over
1 34 the highways.
1 35 Sec. 3. Section 321A.6, Code 2005, is amended by adding
2 1 the following new subsection:
2 2 NEW SUBSECTION. 5. To the operator or owner of special
2 3 mobile equipment.
2 4 Sec. 4. IMPLEMENTATION. The department may adopt rules
2 5 pursuant to chapter 17A as necessary to implement and
2 6 administer this Act.
2 7 Sec. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
2 8 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
2 9 EXPLANATION
2 10 This bill exempts special mobile equipment from the
2 11 provisions of Code chapter 321A relating to motor vehicle
2 12 financial responsibility. Under that Code chapter, the state
2 13 department of transportation is required to suspend the
2 14 driver's license of each operator and the registrations of
2 15 each owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident
2 16 resulting in bodily injury or death or damage to property in
2 17 excess of $1,000, unless proof of financial responsibility is
2 18 established for the owner or operator or both. Under the
2 19 bill, that requirement will no longer apply to owners and
2 20 operators of special mobile equipment.
2 21 The bill defines "special mobile equipment" as every self=
2 22 propelled road construction vehicle, road maintenance vehicle,
2 23 and ditch=digging apparatus not designed or used primarily for
2 24 the transportation of persons or property and incidentally
2 25 operated or moved over the highways. The definition of "motor
2 26 vehicle", as it applies in Code chapter 321A, is amended to
2 27 exclude special mobile equipment.
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