2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.57 - OPERATION UNDER SPECIAL PLATES.

        321.57  OPERATION UNDER SPECIAL PLATES.
         1.  A dealer owning any vehicle of a type otherwise required to be
      registered under this chapter may operate or move the vehicle upon
      the highways solely for purposes of transporting, testing,
      demonstrating, or selling the vehicle without registering the
      vehicle, upon condition that the vehicle display in the manner
      prescribed in sections 321.37 and 321.38 a special plate issued to
      the owner as provided in sections 321.58 through 321.62.  A dealer
      may operate or move upon the highways a vehicle owned by the dealer
      for either private or business purposes without registering it if the
      vehicle is in the dealer's inventory and is continuously offered for
      sale at retail, and there is displayed on it a special plate issued
      to the dealer as provided in sections 321.58 through 321.62.  A
      dealer may operate or move upon the highways an unregistered vehicle
      owned by a lessor licensed pursuant to chapter 321F solely for the
      purpose of delivering the vehicle to the owner or transporting the
      vehicle to or from an auction if there is displayed on the vehicle a
      special plate issued to the dealer as provided in sections 321.58
      through 321.62.
         2.  In addition, while a service customer is having the customer's
      own vehicle serviced or repaired by the dealer, the service customer
      of the dealer may operate upon the highways a motor vehicle owned by
      the dealer, except a motor truck or truck tractor, upon which there
      is displayed a special plate issued to the dealer, provided all of
      the requirements of this section are complied with.
         3.  Also a transporter may operate or move any vehicle of like
      type upon the highways solely for the purpose of delivery upon
      likewise displaying thereon like plates issued to the transporter as
      provided in these sections.
         4.  The provisions of this section and sections 321.58 to 321.62
      shall not apply to any vehicles offered for hire, work or service
      vehicles owned by a transporter or dealer.
         5.  A dealer licensed as a wholesaler for a new motor vehicle
      model under chapter 322 may operate a new motor vehicle of that
      model, owned by the wholesaler, upon the highway when there is
      displayed on the vehicle a special plate issued to the wholesaler as
      provided in sections 321.58 through 321.62 and when operated solely
      for the purposes of demonstration, show, or exhibition.
         6.  A manufacturer licensed under chapter 322 that manufactures
      ambulances, rescue vehicles, or fire vehicles may operate or move a
      new ambulance, rescue vehicle, or fire vehicle manufactured and owned
      by the manufacturer solely for purposes of transporting,
      demonstrating, showing, or exhibiting the vehicle when there is
      displayed on the vehicle a special plate issued to the manufacturer
      as provided in sections 321.58 through 321.62.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [SS15, § 1571-m14; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 4888, 4894, 4895; C39, §
      5004.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §
      321.57; 82 Acts, ch 1251, § 12] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         92 Acts, ch 1175, § 1; 97 Acts, ch 139, §5, 17; 98 Acts, ch 1121,
      §5, 9; 99 Acts, ch 188, §11; 2001 Acts, ch 153, §17, 18; 2002 Acts,
      ch 1063, §19; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §47; 2006 Acts, ch 1068, §15; 2006
      Acts, ch 1090, §18, 26; 2007 Acts, ch 102, §1
         Referred to in § 321.309, 321E.10, 805.8A(2c)
         For applicable scheduled fine, see §805.8A, subsection 2,
      paragraph c