2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.30 - GROUNDS FOR REFUSING REGISTRATION OR TITLE.

        321.30  GROUNDS FOR REFUSING REGISTRATION OR TITLE.
         1.  The department or the county treasurer shall refuse
      registration and issuance of a certificate of title or any transfer
      of title and registration upon any of the following grounds:
         a.  That the application contains any false or fraudulent
      statement or that the applicant has failed to furnish required
      information or reasonable additional information requested by the
      department or that the applicant is not entitled to registration and
      issuance of a certificate of title of the vehicle under this chapter.

         b.  That the vehicle is mechanically unfit or unsafe to be
      operated or moved upon the highways, providing such condition is
      revealed by a member of this department, or any peace officer.
         c.  That the department or the county treasurer has reasonable
      ground to believe that the vehicle is a stolen or embezzled vehicle
      or that the granting of registration and issuance of a certificate of
      title would constitute a fraud against the rightful owner.
         d.  That the registration of the vehicle stands suspended or
      revoked for any reason as provided in the motor vehicle laws of this
      state.
         e.  That the required registration fees have not been paid
      except as provided in section 321.48.
         f.  For a vehicle subject only to a certificate of title or a
      manufactured home, that the required use tax has not been paid.
         g.  If application for registration and certificate of title
      for a new vehicle is not accompanied by a manufacturer's or
      importer's certificate duly assigned.
         h.  If application for a transfer of registration and issuance
      of a certificate of title for a used vehicle registered in this state
      is not accompanied by a certificate of title duly assigned.
         i.  If application and supporting documents are insufficient
      to authorize the issuance of a certificate of title as provided by
      this chapter, except that an initial registration or transfer of
      registration may be issued as provided in section 321.23.
         j.  In the case of a mobile home or manufactured home, that
      taxes are owing under chapter 435 for a previous year.
         k.  In the case of a mobile home or manufactured home
      converted from real estate, real estate taxes which are delinquent.
         l.  If a commercial motor vehicle has been assigned to be
      operated by a commercial motor carrier whose ability to operate has
      been terminated or denied by a federal agency.
         m.  If the applicant is under eighteen years of age, unless
      the applicant has an Iowa driver's license or the application is
      being made by more than one applicant and one of the applicants is at
      least eighteen years of age.
         2.  Unless otherwise provided for in this chapter, the department
      or the county treasurer shall refuse registration and issuance of a
      certificate of title unless the vehicle bears a manufacturer's label
      pursuant to 49 C.F.R. pt. 567 certifying that the vehicle meets
      federal motor vehicle safety standards.
         3.  The department or the county treasurer shall refuse
      registration of a vehicle if the applicant for registration of the
      vehicle has failed to pay the required annual registration fee or the
      fee for new registration of any vehicle owned or previously owned
      when the fee was required to be paid by the applicant, and for which
      vehicle the registration was suspended or revoked under section
      321.101, subsection 1, paragraph "d", or section 321.101A, until
      the fee is paid together with any accrued penalties.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C39, § 5001.14; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
      81, § 321.30; 82 Acts, ch 1164, § 1, ch 1251, § 9] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 98, §3; 87 Acts, ch 108, §3--5; 95 Acts, ch 55, § 4;
      95 Acts, ch 194, §2, 12; 99 Acts, ch 188, §5; 2000 Acts, ch 1016, §4,
      5; 2001 Acts, ch 153, §17; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §245; 2006 Acts, ch
      1068, §10, 41; 2007 Acts, ch 126, §53; 2008 Acts, ch 1018, §7, 8;
      2008 Acts, ch 1113, §56, 57
         Referred to in § 321.101, 331.557
         See also § 321.40