2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.40 - APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL -- NOTIFICATION -- REASONS FOR REFUSAL.

        321.40  APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL -- NOTIFICATION --
      REASONS FOR REFUSAL.
         1.  Application for renewal of a vehicle registration shall be
      made on or after the first day of the month prior to the month of
      expiration of registration and up to and including the last day of
      the month following the month of expiration of registration.  The
      registration shall be renewed upon payment of the appropriate annual
      registration fee.  Application for renewal for a vehicle registered
      under chapter 326 shall be made on or after the first day of the
      month of expiration of registration and up to and including the last
      day of the month following the month of expiration of registration.
         2.  On or before the fifteenth day of the eleventh month of a
      vehicle's registration year, the department shall create an
      electronic file and the county treasurer shall send a statement of
      fees due to the appropriate owner of record.  After the department
      has generated the electronic file used to produce statements for a
      registration month, and before the fifteenth day of the month
      following expiration of a vehicle's registration year, the department
      shall create a subsequent electronic file and the county treasurer
      shall send a statement of fees due to the appropriate owner of record
      for any vehicle subsequently registered for that registration month.
      The statement shall be mailed or electronically transmitted to the
      most current address of record, showing information sufficient to
      identify the vehicle and a listing of the various fees as
      appropriate.  Failure to receive a statement shall have no effect
      upon the accrual of penalty at the appropriate date.
         3.  Registration receipts issued for renewals shall have the word
      "renewal" imprinted thereon and, if the owner making a renewal
      application has been issued a certificate of title, the title number
      shall appear on the registration receipt.  All registration receipts
      for renewals shall be typewritten or printed by other mechanical
      means.  The applicant shall receive a registration receipt.
         4.  The county treasurer shall refuse to renew the registration of
      a vehicle registered to a person when notified by the department
      through the distributed teleprocessing network that the person has
      not paid restitution as defined under section 910.1, subsection 4, to
      a clerk of the court located within the state.  Each clerk of court
      shall, on a daily basis, notify the department through the Iowa court
      information system of the full name and social security number of all
      persons who owe delinquent restitution and whose restitution
      obligation has been satisfied or canceled.  This subsection does not
      apply to the transfer of a registration or the issuance of a new
      registration.
         5.  The county treasurer shall refuse to renew the registration of
      a vehicle registered to the applicant for renewal of registration if
      the applicant has failed to pay any local vehicle taxes due in that
      county on that vehicle or any other vehicle owned or previously owned
      by the applicant until such local vehicle taxes are paid.
         6.  The department or the county treasurer shall refuse to renew
      the registration of a vehicle registered to the applicant if the
      department or the county treasurer knows that the applicant has a
      delinquent account, charge, fee, loan, taxes, or other indebtedness
      owed to or being collected by the state, from information provided
      pursuant to sections 8A.504 and 421.17.  An applicant may contest
      this action by requesting a contested case proceeding from the agency
      that referred the debt for collection pursuant to section 8A.504.
         7.  The county treasurer shall refuse to renew the registration of
      a vehicle registered to an applicant if the county treasurer knows
      that the applicant has one or more uncontested, delinquent parking
      tickets issued pursuant to section 321.236, subsection 1, paragraph
      "b", owing to the county, or owing to a city with which the
      county has an agreement authorized under section 331.553.  However, a
      county treasurer may renew the registration if the treasurer
      determines that an error was made by the county or city in
      identifying the vehicle involved in the parking violation or if the
      citation has been dismissed as against the owner of the vehicle
      pursuant to section 321.484.  This subsection does not apply to the
      transfer of a registration or the issuance of a new registration.
      Notwithstanding section 28E.10, a county treasurer may utilize the
      department's vehicle registration and titling system to facilitate
      the purposes of this subsection.
         8.  When application is made for the renewal of a motor vehicle
      registration on or after December 1, 1982, the person in whose name
      the registration is recorded shall notify the county treasurer of the
      type of fuel used by the vehicle if the type of fuel used is
      different from that which is shown on the registration receipt.  If a
      motor vehicle registration indicates that the vehicle uses or may use
      a special fuel as defined in chapter 452A the county treasurer shall
      issue a special fuel user identification sticker.  The person who
      owns or controls the vehicle shall affix the sticker in a prominent
      place on the vehicle adjacent to the place where the special fuel is
      delivered into the motor vehicle fuel supply tank.
         9. a.  The clerk of the district court shall notify the county
      treasurer of any delinquent court debt, as defined in section
      602.8107, which is being collected by the county attorney pursuant to
      section 602.8107, subsection 4.  The county treasurer shall refuse to
      renew the vehicle registration of the applicant upon such
      notification from the clerk of the district court in regard to such
      applicant.
         b.  If the applicant enters into or renews a payment plan that
      is satisfactory to the county attorney or the county attorney's
      designee, the county attorney shall provide the county treasurer with
      written or electronic notice of the payment plan within five days of
      entering into such a plan.  The county treasurer shall temporarily
      lift the registration hold on an applicant for a period of ten days
      if the treasurer receives such notice in order to allow the applicant
      to register a vehicle for the year.  If the applicant remains current
      with the payment plan entered into with the county attorney or the
      county attorney's designee, subsequent lifts of registration holds
      shall be granted without additional restrictions.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1571-m6; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 4875; C39, § 5001.24; C46,
      50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.40; 82 Acts, ch
      1218, § 1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         82 Acts, ch 1062, § 6, 7, 38; 85 Acts, ch 32, §78; 85 Acts, ch 77,
      §1; 85 Acts, ch 87, §2; 95 Acts, ch 57, §1; 95 Acts, ch 169, §1, 10;
      95 Acts, ch 194, §4, 12; 97 Acts, ch 104, §12, 61; 2000 Acts, ch
      1028, §2, 4; 2002 Acts, ch 1043, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §248; 2005
      Acts, ch 54, §1, 12; 2007 Acts, ch 126, §54; 2008 Acts, ch 1113, §79;
      2008 Acts, ch 1172, §18; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §250
         Referred to in § 321.34, 321.236, 331.553, 331.557, 364.2, 423B.2