1.“Appropriate state agency” or “state agency” means the department of revenue or the
state department of transportation, whichever is responsible for control, maintenance, or
supervision of the power, requirement, or duty referred to in the provision. The department
of revenue shall administer the provisions of subchapter I of this chapter, and the state
department of transportation shall administer the provisions of subchapter IV. The state
department of transportation shall have enforcement authority for subchapter I as agreed
upon by the director of revenue and the director of transportation.
2.“Carrier” means and includes any person who operates or causes to be operated any
commercial motor vehicle on any public highway in this state.
3.“Commercial motor vehicle” means a passenger
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1. “Appropriate state agency” or “state agency” means the department of revenue or the
state department of transportation, whichever is responsible for control, maintenance, or
supervision of the power, requirement, or duty referred to in the provision. The department
of revenue shall administer the provisions of subchapter I of this chapter, and the state
department of transportation shall administer the provisions of subchapter IV. The state
department of transportation shall have enforcement authority for subchapter I as agreed
upon by the director of revenue and the director of transportation.
2. “Carrier” means and includes any person who operates or causes to be operated any
commercial motor vehicle on any public highway in this state.
3. “Commercial motor vehicle” means a passenger vehicle that has seats for more than
nine passengers in addition to the driver, any road tractor, any truck tractor, or any truck
having two or more axles which passenger vehicle, road tractor, truck tractor, or truck is
propelled on the public highways by motor fuel, special fuel, or electric fuel. “Commercial
motor vehicle” does not include a motor truck with a combined gross weight of less than
twenty-six thousand pounds, operated as a part of an identifiable one-way fleet and which is
leased for less than thirty days to a lessee for the purpose of moving property which is not
owned by the lessor.
4. “Department of revenue” includes the director of revenue or the director’s authorized
representative.
5. “Fuel taxes” means the per gallon and per kilowatt excise taxes imposed under
subchapters I and IV, and section 452A.41, with respect to motor fuel, undyed special fuel,
and electric fuel.
6. An“Iowaurbantransitsystem”isasystemwherebymotorbusesareoperatedprimarily
upon the streets of cities for the transportation of passengers for an established fare and
which accepts passengers who present themselves for transportation without discrimination
up to the limit of the capacity of each motor bus. “Iowa urban transit system” also includes
motor buses operated upon the streets of adjoining cities, whether interstate or intrastate, for
the transportation of passengers without discrimination up to the limit of the capacity of the
motor bus. Privately chartered bus services, motor carriers and interurban carriers subject
to the jurisdiction of the state department of transportation, school bus services and taxicabs
shall not be construed to be an urban transit system nor a part of any such system.
7. “Mobile machinery and equipment” means vehicles self-propelled by an internal
combustion engine but not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons
or property on public highways and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway
including but not limited to corn shellers, truck-mounted feed grinders, roller mills, ditch
digging apparatus, power shovels, drag lines, earth moving equipment and machinery,
and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous
mixers, bucket loaders, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, paving
mixers, road rollers, scarifiers and earth moving scrapers. However, “mobile machinery and
equipment” does not include dump trucks or self-propelled vehicles originally designed for
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the transportation of persons or property on public highways and to which machinery, such
as truck-mounted transit mixers, cranes, shovels, welders, air compressors, well-boring
apparatus or lime spreaders, has been attached.
8. “Motor vehicle” shall mean and include all vehicles, except those operated on rails,
which are propelled by internal combustion engines or electric motors and are of such design
as to permit their mobile use on public highways for transporting persons or property. A farm
tractor while operated on a farm or for the purpose of hauling farm machinery, equipment, or
produce shall not be deemed to be a motor vehicle. “Motor vehicle” shall not include “mobile
machinery and equipment” as defined in this section.
9. “Person” shall mean and include natural persons, partnerships, firms, associations,
corporations, representatives appointed by any court and political subdivisions of this state
and use of the singular shall include the plural.
10. “Public highways” shall mean and include any way or place available to the public for
purposes of vehicular travel notwithstanding that it is temporarily closed.
11. “Regional transit system” means a public transit system serving one county or all
or part of a multicounty area whose boundaries correspond to the same boundaries as
those of the regional planning areas designated by the governor, except as agreed upon
by the department. Each county board of supervisors within the region is responsible for
determining the service and funding within its county. However, the administration and
overhead support services for the overall regional transit system shall be consolidated into
one existing or new agency to be mutually agreed upon by the participating members.
Privately chartered bus services and uses other than providing services that are open and
public on a shared ride basis shall not be construed to be a regional transit system.