2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.49 - TIME LIMIT -- PENALTY -- POWER OF ATTORNEY.

        321.49  TIME LIMIT -- PENALTY -- POWER OF ATTORNEY.
         1.  Except as provided in section 321.52, if an application for
      transfer of registration and certificate of title is not submitted to
      the county treasurer of the residence of the transferee within thirty
      days of the date of assignment or transfer of title, or within thirty
      days of the date of delivery to the purchaser if the vehicle is
      subject to a security interest and was offered for sale pursuant to
      section 321.48, subsection 1, a penalty of ten dollars shall accrue
      against the applicant, and no registration card or certificate of
      title shall be issued to the applicant for the vehicle until the
      penalty is paid.
         2.  Certificates of title to vehicles may be assigned by an
      attorney in fact of the owner under a power of attorney appointed and
      so empowered on forms provided by the department.  Such power of
      attorney shall be filed by the transferee with the application for
      title.
         3.  A manufactured or mobile home retailer who acquires a used
      mobile home or manufactured home, titled in Iowa, and who does not
      apply for and obtain a certificate of title from the county treasurer
      of the manufactured or mobile home retailer's county of residence
      within thirty days of the date of acquisition, as required under
      section 321.45, subsection 4, is subject to a penalty of ten dollars.
      A certificate of title shall not be issued to the manufactured or
      mobile home retailer until the penalty is paid.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, 27, 31, 35, § 4966; C39, § 5002.05; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62,
      66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.49] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 209, §2; 87 Acts, ch 130, §4; 93 Acts, ch 47, § 2; 99
      Acts, ch 13, §8; 99 Acts, ch 188, §9; 2000 Acts, ch 1154, §22; 2001
      Acts, ch 153, §17, 18; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §45
         Referred to in § 331.557