HOUSE FILE 362

BY  SWEENEY

A BILL FOR

An Act providing an exemption from commercial vehicle marking requirements for certain vehicles operated intrastate.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 321.449, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  7A.  Rules adopted under this section concerning the marking of commercial motor vehicles shall not apply to a commercial motor vehicle owned or controlled by a farmer and operated intrastate to transport the farmer’s own agricultural products, farm machinery, or farm supplies to or from the farm or, if the farmer assists other farmers through an exchange of services, between the farms of the farmers who are exchanging services.
EXPLANATION
   Pursuant to current law, the department of transportation has adopted administrative rules for the regulation of commercial vehicles which are consistent with federal motor carrier safety regulations. Those rules require certain commercial motor vehicles to display a U.S. department of transportation number on the vehicle, a practice known as “marking”. 
   This bill provides an exemption from marking requirements for commercial motor vehicles which are owned or controlled by a farmer and operated intrastate to transport agricultural products, farm machinery, or farm supplies to or from the farm. Vehicles operated between farms by farmers who assist each other through an exchange of services are included under the exemption.