2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.124 - MOTOR HOMES AND MULTIPURPOSE VEHICLES -- FEES.

        321.124  MOTOR HOMES AND MULTIPURPOSE VEHICLES --
      FEES.
         1.  Motor homes are classified as follows:
         a.  Class A motor home means a truck chassis or special
      chassis upon which is built a driver's compartment and an entire body
      which provides temporary living quarters.  A class A motor home shall
      also mean a passenger carrying bus which has been registered at least
      five times as a motor truck and which has been converted, modified,
      or altered to provide temporary living quarters.
         b.  Class B motor home means a completed van-type vehicle
      which has been converted, modified, constructed, or altered to
      provide temporary living quarters.
         c.  Class C motor home means an incomplete vehicle upon which
      is permanently attached a body designed to provide temporary living
      quarters.
         2.  Class A motor homes and class C motor homes are exempt from
      the provisions of section 322.5, subsection 2, except that a motor
      vehicle dealer showing class A motor homes and class C motor homes
      shall apply for a temporary permit upon forms and for such time as
      provided in section 322.5, subsection 2, and the department may issue
      the temporary permit upon payment of the fee provided therein.
         3.  The annual registration fee for motor homes and 1992 and older
      model years for multipurpose vehicles is as follows:
         a.  For class A motor homes with a list price of eighty
      thousand dollars or more as certified to the department by the
      manufacturer, four hundred dollars for registration each year through
      five model years and three hundred dollars for each succeeding
      registration.
         b.  For class A motor homes with a list price of forty
      thousand dollars or more but less than eighty thousand dollars as
      certified to the department by the manufacturer, two hundred dollars
      for registration each year through five model years and one hundred
      fifty dollars for each succeeding registration.
         c.  For class A motor homes with a list price of twenty
      thousand dollars or more but less than forty thousand dollars as
      certified to the department by the manufacturer, one hundred forty
      dollars for the first five registrations and one hundred five dollars
      for each succeeding registration.
         d.  For class A motor homes with a list price of less than
      twenty thousand dollars as certified to the department by the
      manufacturer, one hundred twenty dollars for registration each year
      through five model years and eighty-five dollars for each succeeding
      registration.
         e.  For a class A motor home which is a passenger- carrying
      bus which has been registered at least five times as a motor truck
      and which has been converted, modified, or altered to provide
      temporary living quarters, ninety dollars for registration each year
      through ten model years and sixty- five dollars for each succeeding
      registration.  In computing the number of registrations, the
      registrations shall be cumulative beginning with the registration of
      the class A motor home as a motor truck prior to its conversion,
      modification, or alteration to provide temporary living quarters.
         f.  For class B motor homes, ninety dollars for registration
      each year through five model years and sixty-five dollars for each
      succeeding registration.
         g.  For class C motor homes, one hundred ten dollars for
      registration each year through five model years and eighty dollars
      for each succeeding registration.
         h.  For multipurpose vehicles in accordance with the
      following:
         (1)  Two hundred dollars for registration for the first and second
      model years.
         (2)  One hundred seventy-five dollars for registration for the
      third and fourth model years.
         (3)  One hundred fifty dollars for registration for the fifth
      model year.
         (4)  Seventy-five dollars for registration for the sixth model
      year.
         (5)  Fifty-five dollars for registration for each succeeding model
      year.
         (6)  The annual registration fee for a multipurpose vehicle with
      permanently installed equipment manufactured for and necessary to
      assist a person with a disability who is either the owner or a member
      of the owner's household in entry and exit of the vehicle or for a
      multipurpose vehicle if the vehicle's owner or a member of the
      vehicle owner's household uses a wheelchair as the only means of
      mobility shall be sixty dollars.  For purposes of this subparagraph,
      "uses a wheelchair" does not include use of a wheelchair due to a
      temporary injury or medical condition.
         The registration fees required by this lettered paragraph are
      applicable to all 1992 and older model years for multipurpose
      vehicles beginning January 1, 1993.  The registration fees for
      multipurpose vehicles that are 1993 and subsequent model years shall
      be in accordance with section 321.109.
         For purposes of determining that portion of the annual
      registration fee which is based upon the value of the multipurpose
      vehicle, sixty percent of the annual fee is attributable to the value
      of the vehicle.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C81, § 321.124] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         82 Acts, ch 1062, § 21, 38; 83 Acts, ch 75, § 1, 2; 92 Acts, ch
      1019, § 2, 8; 92 Acts, ch 1222, § 2; 92 Acts, ch 1232, § 402, 412; 93
      Acts, ch 165, § 2; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113
         Referred to in § 321.1, 321.109, 321.115, 321.115A, 322.2, 322E.1,
      331.557

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