§ 326.3 — Additional definitions

Iowa § 326.3

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VIII: TRANSPORTATION
• Ch. 326: REGISTRATION RECIPROCITY

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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:
(1) The power unit has two axles and a gross vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle
weight in excess of twenty-six thousand pounds.
(2) The power unit has three or more axles, regardless of weight.
(3) The power unit is used in combination, when the gross vehicle weight of such
combination exceeds twenty-six thousand pounds.
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
underasinglecontract,haveacquiredtheexclusiveuseofapassenger-carryingmotorvehicle
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”meansapersoninwhosenameaproperlyregisteredvehicleisregistered.
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
toJuly1ofthecalendaryearimmediatelyprecedingthebeginningoftheregistrationyearfor
whichapportionedregistrationissought. However, iftheregistrationyearbeginsonanydate
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.