House File 314 - EnrolledAn Actrelating to utility maintenance vehicles and solid
waste or recycling collection service vehicles, and making
penalties applicable.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
   Section 1.  Section 321.1, Code 2017, is amended by adding
the following new subsections:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  89A.  “Utility maintenance vehicle” means
a motor vehicle operated by an employee or contractor of an
entity, including but not limited to the state, a political
subdivision of the state, or any commission, department, or
agency thereof, an electric cooperative association, or a
public or private corporation, in connection with the provision
of utility services.
   NEW SUBSECTION.  89B.  “Utility services” means cable,
electric, natural gas, telephone, telecommunication, water, and
wastewater treatment services and includes but is not limited
to the improvement, installation, maintenance, relocation,
or repair of cables, fibers, pipes, utility poles, utility
structures, wires, and associated right-of-way and other
infrastructure associated with such services.
   Sec. 2.  Section 321.323A, subsection 2, unnumbered
paragraph 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   The operator of a motor vehicle approaching a stationary
towing or recovery vehicle, a stationary utility maintenance
vehicle, a stationary municipal maintenance vehicle, or
a stationary highway maintenance vehicle, or a stationary
solid waste or recycling collection service vehicle,
that is
displaying flashing yellow, amber, blue, white, or red lights,
shall approach the vehicle with due caution and shall proceed
in one of the following manners, absent any other direction by
a peace officer:
   Sec. 3.  Section 321.423, subsection 2, paragraph h, Code
2017, is amended to read as follows:
   h.  A flashing amber light is permitted on a towing or
recovery vehicle, a utility maintenance vehicle, a municipal
maintenance vehicle, a highway maintenance vehicle, a solid
waste or recycling collection service vehicle,
or a vehicle
operated in accordance with subsection 6 or section 321.398 or
321.453.
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______________________________
LINDA UPMEYERSpeaker of the House
______________________________
JACK WHITVERPresident of the Senate
   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 314, Eighty-seventh General Assembly.______________________________
CARMINE BOALChief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2017______________________________
TERRY E. BRANSTADGovernor
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