2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.104 - PENAL OFFENSES AGAINST TITLE LAW.

        321.104  PENAL OFFENSES AGAINST TITLE LAW.
         It is a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled violation
      under section 805.8A, subsection 2, paragraph "c", for any person
      to commit any of the following acts:
         1.  To operate any motor vehicle upon the highways upon which the
      certificate of title has been canceled, or while a certificate of
      registration of a motor vehicle is suspended or revoked.
         2.  For a dealer, or a person acting on behalf of a dealer to
      acquire, purchase, hold or display for sale a motor vehicle without
      having obtained a manufacturer's or importer's certificate or a
      certificate of title, or assignments thereof, unless otherwise
      provided in this chapter.
         3.  To fail to surrender a certificate of title, registration
      card, or registration plates upon cancellation, suspension, or
      revocation of the certificate or registration by the department and
      notice as prescribed in this chapter.
         4.  To sell, offer for sale, or transfer a motor vehicle, trailer,
      or semitrailer, except as provided in section 321.47 or 321.48,
      without obtaining a certificate of title in the name of the seller or
      transferor or without delivering to the purchaser or transferee a
      certificate of title or a manufacturer's or importer's certificate
      duly assigned to the purchaser or transferee as provided in this
      chapter.
         5.  To violate any of the other provisions of this chapter or any
      lawful rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
         6.  For a manufactured or mobile home retailer to sell or transfer
      a mobile home or manufactured home without delivering to the
      purchaser or transferee a certificate of title or a manufacturer's or
      importer's certificate properly assigned to the purchaser, or to
      transfer a mobile home or manufactured home without disclosing to the
      purchaser the owner of the mobile home or manufactured home in a
      manner prescribed by the department pursuant to rules, or to fail to
      apply for and obtain a certificate of title for a used mobile home or
      manufactured home, titled in Iowa, acquired by the manufactured or
      mobile home retailer within thirty days from the date of acquisition
      as required under section 321.45, subsection 4.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1571-m24; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 5086; C39, § 5007.08;
      C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.104; 82 Acts,
      ch 1251, § 15] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 195, § 33; 86 Acts, ch 1237, § 20; 87 Acts, ch 130,
      §5; 97 Acts, ch 108, §9; 99 Acts, ch 188, §13; 2000 Acts, ch 1154,
      §23; 2000 Acts, ch 1203, §5; 2001 Acts, ch 137, §5; 2001 Acts, ch
      153, §17; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, § 49
         Referred to in § 321.48, 805.8A(2c)