2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.16 - GIVING OF NOTICES.

        321.16  GIVING OF NOTICES.
         1.  When the department is authorized or required to give notice
      under this chapter or any other law regulating the operation of
      vehicles, unless a different method of giving notice is expressly
      prescribed, notice shall be given either by personal delivery to the
      person to be so notified or by personal service in the manner of
      original notice by rule of civil procedure 1.305(1), or by first
      class mail addressed to the person at the address shown in the
      records of the department, notwithstanding chapter 17A.  The
      department shall adopt rules regarding the giving of notice by first
      class mail, the updating of addresses in department records, and the
      development of affidavits verifying the mailing of notices under this
      chapter and chapter 321J.  A person's refusal to accept or a claim of
      failure to receive a notice of revocation, suspension, or bar mailed
      by first class mail to the person's last known address shall not be a
      defense to a charge of driving while suspended, revoked, denied, or
      barred.
         2.  Proof of the giving of notice by personal service may be made
      by the certificate of any officer or employee of the department or
      affidavit of any person over eighteen years of age, naming the person
      to whom such notice was given and specifying the time, place, and
      manner of the giving thereof.
         3.  If a peace officer serves notice of immediate suspension or
      revocation of a driver's license as provided in this chapter or any
      other chapter, the peace officer may destroy the license or send the
      license to the department.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C39, § 5000.16; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
      81, § 321.16] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 121, §1; 2001 Acts, ch 32, §41; 2007 Acts, ch 143, §7
         Referred to in § 321.211A, 321.556