Iowa Code § 326.3 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 326 / Section 326.3
Additional definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meaning, as provided in the international registration plan, or the meaning ascribed in the international registration plan as it may exist at the time of its applicability to the provisions of this chapter:

(1) “Applicant” means a person in whose name an application is filed for registration under the plan.

(2) “Apportionable fee” means any periodic recurring fee or tax required for registering vehicles, such as registration, license, or weight fees.

(3) (a) “Apportionable vehicle” means any power unit that is used or intended for use in two or more member jurisdictions and that is used for the transportation of persons for hire or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property if one of the following applies:

(3) (a) The power unit has two axles and a gross vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle weight in excess of twenty-six thousand pounds.

(3) (a) The power unit has three or more axles, regardless of weight.

(3) (a) The power unit is used in combination, when the gross vehicle weight of such combination exceeds twenty-six thousand pounds.

(3) (b) A recreational vehicle, a vehicle displaying restricted plates, a bus used in the transportation of chartered parties, or a government-owned vehicle is not an apportionable vehicle; except that a truck or truck tractor, or the power unit in a combination of vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of twenty-six thousand pounds or less, or a bus used in the transportation of chartered parties may be registered under the plan at the option of the registrant.

(4) “Apportioned vehicle” means an apportionable vehicle that has been registered under the plan.

(5) “Audit” means the physical examination of a registrant’s operational records, including source documents, to verify the distances reported in the registrant’s application for apportioned registration and the accuracy of the registrant’s record-keeping system for its fleet. Such an examination may be of multiple fleets for multiple years.

(6) “Audit procedures manual” or “APM” means the audit procedures manual required to be maintained in the plan.

(7) “Auxiliary axle” means an auxiliary undercarriage assembly with a fifth wheel and tow bar used to convert a semitrailer to a trailer.

(8) “Axle” means an assembly of a vehicle consisting of two or more wheels whose centers are in one horizontal plane, by means of which a portion of the weight of a vehicle and its load, if any, is continually transmitted to the roadway. For purposes of registration under the plan, an “axle” is any such assembly whether or not it is load-bearing only part of the time.

(9) “Base jurisdiction” means the member jurisdiction, selected in accordance with the plan, to which an applicant applies for apportioned registration under the plan or the member jurisdiction that issues apportioned registration to a registrant under the plan.

(10) “Cab card” means an evidence of registration, other than a plate, issued for an apportioned vehicle registered under the plan by the base jurisdiction and carried in or on the identified vehicle.

(11) “Chartered party” means a group of persons who, pursuant to a common purpose and under a single contract, have acquired the exclusive use of a passenger-carrying motor vehicle to travel together as a group to a specified destination or for a particular itinerary, either agreed upon in advance or modified by the group after leaving the place of origin. “Chartered party” includes services rendered to a number of passengers that a passenger carrier or its agent has assembled into a travel group through sales of a ticket to each individual passenger covering a round trip from one or more points of origin to a single advertised destination.

(12) “Credentials” means the cab card and plate issued in accordance with the plan.

(13) “Fleet” means one or more apportionable vehicles designated by a registrant for distance reporting under the plan.

(14) “Jurisdiction” means a country or a state, province, territory, possession, or federal district of a country.

(15) “Lease” means a transaction evidenced by a written document in which a lessor vests exclusive possession, control, and responsibility for the operation of a vehicle in a lessee for a specific term. A long-term lease is for a period of thirty calendar days or more. A short-term lease is for a period of less than thirty calendar days.

(16) “Lessee” means a person that is authorized to have exclusive possession and control of a vehicle owned by another person under terms of a lease agreement.

(17) “Lessor” means a person that, under the terms of a lease agreement, authorizes another person to have exclusive possession of, control of, and responsibility for the operation of a vehicle.

(18) “Member jurisdiction” means a jurisdiction that has applied and has been approved for membership in the plan in accordance with the plan.

(19) “Operational records” means source documents that evidence distance traveled by a fleet in each member jurisdiction, such as fuel reports, trip sheets, and driver logs, including those which may be generated through on-board devices and maintained electronically, as required by the audit procedures manual.

(20) “Plate” means the license plate, including renewal decals, if any, issued for a vehicle registered under the plan by the base jurisdiction.

(21) “Power unit” means a motor vehicle as distinguished from a trailer, semitrailer, or auxiliary axle, but not including an automobile or a motorcycle.

(22) “Properly registered vehicle” means a vehicle which has been registered in full compliance with the laws of all jurisdictions in which it is intended to operate.

(23) “Reciprocity” means the reciprocal grant by one jurisdiction of operating rights or privileges in properly registered vehicles registered by another jurisdiction, especially but not exclusively including privileges generally conferred by vehicle registration.

(24) “Reciprocity agreement” means an agreement, arrangement, or understanding between two or more jurisdictions under which each of the participating jurisdictions grants reciprocal rights or privileges to properly registered vehicles that are registered under the laws of other participating jurisdictions.

(25) “Recreational vehicle” means a vehicle used for personal pleasure or personal travel and not in connection with any commercial endeavor.

(26) “Registrant” means a person in whose name a properly registered vehicle is registered.

(27) “Registration year” means the twelve-month period during which, under the laws of the base jurisdiction, the registration issued to a registrant by the base jurisdiction is valid.

(28) “Reporting period” means the period of twelve consecutive months immediately prior to July 1 of the calendar year immediately preceding the beginning of the registration year for which apportioned registration is sought. However, if the registration year begins on any date in July, August, or September, the reporting period shall be the previous such twelve-month period.

(29) “Restricted plate” means a plate that has a time, geographic area, distance, or commodity restriction or a mass transit or other special plate issued for a bus leased or owned by a municipal government, a state or provincial transportation authority, or a private party, and operated as part of an urban mass transit system, as defined by the jurisdiction that issues the plate.

(30) “Total distance” means all distance, including that accrued on trip permits, operated by a fleet of apportioned vehicles in all member jurisdictions during the reporting period.

(31) “Trip permit” means a permit issued by a member jurisdiction in lieu of apportioned or full registration.

(32) “Truck” means a power unit designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.

2012 Acts, ch 1093, §18; 2012 Acts, ch 1138, §67