2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.212 - PERIOD OF SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION -- SURRENDER OF LICENSE.

        321.212  PERIOD OF SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION --
      SURRENDER OF LICENSE.
         1. a.  Except as provided in section 321.210A or 321.513 the
      department shall not suspend a license for a period of more than one
      year, except that a license suspended because of incompetency to
      drive a motor vehicle shall be suspended until the department
      receives satisfactory evidence that the former holder is competent to
      operate a motor vehicle and a refusal to reinstate constitutes a
      denial of license within section 321.215; upon revoking a license the
      department shall not grant an application for a new license until the
      expiration of one year after the revocation, unless another period is
      specified by law.
         A suspension under section 321.210, subsection 1, paragraph
      "d", for a violation of section 321.216B shall not exceed six
      months.  As soon as practicable after the period of suspension has
      expired, but not later than six months after the date of expiration,
      the department shall expunge information regarding the suspension
      from the person's driving record.
         b.  The department shall not revoke a license under the
      provisions of subsection 5 of section 321.209 for more than thirty
      days nor less than five days as recommended by the trial court.
         c.  The department shall revoke a license for six months for a
      first offense under the provisions of section 321.209, subsection 6,
      where the violation charged did not result in a personal injury or
      damage to property.
         d.  The department shall revoke a driver's license according
      to an order issued pursuant to section 901.5, subsection 10, for one
      hundred eighty days.  If the person has not been issued a driver's
      license, the issuance of a driver's license shall be delayed for one
      hundred eighty days after the person is first eligible.  If the
      person's operating privileges have been suspended or revoked at the
      time the person is convicted, the one-hundred-eighty-day revocation
      period shall not begin until all other suspensions or revocations
      have terminated.
         2.  The department upon suspending or revoking a driver's license
      shall require that the license be surrendered to and be retained by
      the department.  At the end of the period of suspension the license
      surrendered shall be reissued to the licensee upon payment of the
      reinstatement fee under section 321.191.  At the end of a period of
      revocation the licensee must apply for a new driver's license.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C31, 35, § 4960-d40, -d42, -d45; C39, § 5014.12, 5014.13;
      C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.212, 321.213;
      82 Acts, ch 1167, § 3] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 197, §4; 90 Acts, ch 1230, § 56; 93 Acts, ch 16, § 5;
      93 Acts, ch 164, § 2; 96 Acts, ch 1218, § 60; 98 Acts, ch 1073, §9