Bill Text: IA SF42 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act allowing the display of one registration plate on the rear of certain older, reconstructed, and specially constructed motor vehicles. (See SF 227.)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-07 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 227. S.J. 261. [SF42 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-SF42-Introduced.html
Senate File 42 - Introduced SENATE FILE 42 BY ZAUN A BILL FOR An Act allowing the display of one registration plate on 1 the rear of certain older, reconstructed, and specially 2 constructed motor vehicles. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1726XS (1) 88 ns/rh
S.F. 42 Section 1. Section 321.37, subsection 2, Code 2019, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 2. Registration plates issued for Notwithstanding 3 subsection 1, a motor vehicle which is model year 1948 1978 or 4 older, and or a reconstructed or specially constructed vehicles 5 vehicle built to resemble a vehicle which is model year 1948 6 vehicle 1978 or older, other than a truck registered for more 7 than five tons, autocycle, motorcycle, or truck tractor, may 8 display one registration plate on the rear of the vehicle if 9 the other registration plate issued to the vehicle is carried 10 in the vehicle at all times when the vehicle is operated on a 11 public highway. 12 EXPLANATION 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 14 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 15 Since 1997, Iowa has allowed certain motor vehicles which 16 are model year 1948 or older, and certain reconstructed or 17 specially constructed vehicles built to resemble vehicles which 18 are model year 1948 or older, to display one registration plate 19 on the rear of the vehicle if the other registration plate 20 issued to the vehicle is carried in the vehicle at all times 21 when the vehicle is operated on a public highway. Trucks 22 registered for more than five tons, autocycles, motorcycles, 23 and truck tractors are excluded from the provision. This bill 24 expands the provision to include motor vehicles which are model 25 year 1978 or older, and reconstructed or specially constructed 26 vehicles built to resemble vehicles which are model year 27 1978 or older. The bill does not amend the list of vehicles 28 excluded from the provision under current law. 29 -1- LSB 1726XS (1) 88 ns/rh 1/ 1
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