Iowa § 321H.2 Definitions

Iowa Statutes

§ 321H.2 — Definitions

Iowa § 321H.2

Title VIIITRANSPORTATION

Ch. 321HVEHICLE RECYCLERS

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Iowa Code § 321H.2 (2026).

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As used in this chapter and unless a different meaning appears from the context:

1.“Authorized vehicle recycler” means a person licensed to operate as a vehicle rebuilder, used vehicle parts dealer or vehicle salvager.

2.“Department” means the state department of transportation.

3.“Extension” means a place of business of an authorized vehicle recycler other than the principal place of business within the county of the principal place of business.

4.“National motor vehicle title information system” means the federally mandated motor vehicle title history database established pursuant to 49 U.S.C. §30502 and maintained by the United States department of justice that links the states’ motor vehicle title records, including the department’s title records, and that requires the reporting of

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As used in this chapter and unless a different meaning appears from the context:
1. “Authorized vehicle recycler” means a person licensed to operate as a vehicle rebuilder,
used vehicle parts dealer or vehicle salvager.
2. “Department” means the state department of transportation.
3. “Extension” means a place of business of an authorized vehicle recycler other than the
principal place of business within the county of the principal place of business.
4. “National motor vehicle title information system” means the federally mandated motor
vehicle title history database established pursuant to 49 U.S.C. §30502 and maintained by the
United States department of justice that links the states’ motor vehicle title records, including
the department’s title records, and that requires the reporting of junk and salvage motor
vehicles in order to ensure that states, law enforcement agencies, insurers, and consumers
haveaccesstoinformationthatenablestheverificationofavehicle’shistory,andtheaccuracy
and legality of a motor vehicle’s title, before a purchase or title transfer occurs.
5. “Person” includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint adventure, or
association, and the plural as well as the singular number.
6. “Selling” includes bartering, exchanging, or otherwise dealing in.
7. “Usedvehiclepartsdealer”meansapersonengagedin, oradvertisingasbeingengaged
in, the business of selling bodies, parts of bodies, frames, or component parts of used vehicles
subject to registration.
8. “Vehicle” means any vehicle as defined in chapter 321.
9. “Vehicle rebuilder” means a person engaged in, or advertising as being engaged in,
the business of rebuilding or restoring to operating condition vehicles subject to registration
which have been damaged or wrecked.
10. “Vehicle salvager” means a person engaged in, or advertising as being engaged in,
the business of scrapping, recycling, dismantling, or storing wrecked or damaged vehicles or
selling reusable parts of vehicles or storing vehicles not currently registered which vehicles
are vehicles subject to registration.
11. “Vehicle subject to registration” means any vehicle that is of a type required to be
registered under chapter 321 when operated on a public highway, including but not limited
to a vehicle that is inoperable, salvage, or rebuilt.
12. “Wrecked or salvage vehicle” means a damaged vehicle for which the cost of repair
exceeds seventy percent of the fair market value of the vehicle before the vehicle became
damaged.