Iowa Code 214.3 – License fees
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1. A license fee is imposed on a person who uses or displays for use a commercial weighing and measuring device. The license fee is due the day the department issues the license. The amount of the license fee shall be calculated in accordance with the class or section for devices as established by handbook 44 of the United States national institute of standards and technology.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 214.3
- device: means the same as defined in section 215. See Iowa Code 214.1
- Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, ostriches, rheas, emus, poultry, and other animals or fowl, which are being produced primarily for use as food or food products for human consumption. See Iowa Code 172D.1
- Motor fuel pump: means the part of motor fuel storage and dispensing infrastructure that is a meter or similar commercial weighing and measuring device used to measure and dispense motor fuel originating from a motor fuel storage tank, on a retail basis. See Iowa Code 214.1
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
- United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. The fee due under this section for a commercial weighing and measuring device shall be as follows:
a. Class S-IIIL.
(1) Railroad track scales, one hundred six dollars and fifty cents.
(2) Other scales.
(a) 500 to 1,000 pounds capacity, sixteen dollars and fifty cents.
(b) 1,001 to 30,000 pounds capacity, thirty-one dollars and fifty cents.
(c) 30,001 to 50,000 pounds capacity, sixty-one dollars and fifty cents.
(d) 50,001 pounds capacity or more, eighty-four dollars.
(3) A minimum fee of forty-six dollars and fifty cents shall be charged for each vehicle or livestock scale.
b. Class S-II and S-III, nine dollars.
(1) Bench scale, nine dollars.
(2) Counter scale, nine dollars.
(3) Portable platform scale, nine dollars.
(4) Livestock monorail scale, nine dollars.
(5) Single animal scale, nine dollars.
(6) Grain test scale, nine dollars.
(7) Precious metal and gems scale, nine dollars.
(8) Postal scale, nine dollars.
c. (1) Grain moisture meters, twenty-four dollars.
(2) Additional meters at the same location, sixteen dollars and fifty cents.
d. Class M-I. One hundred-gallon prover.
(1) Bulk meters, nine dollars.
(2) Bulk liquid petroleum gas meters, fifty-two dollars and fifty cents.
(3) Bulk refined fuel meters, nine dollars.
(4) Mass flow meters, nine dollars.
e. Class M-II. Five-gallon prover.
(1) Slow flow meters, nine dollars.
(2) Retail motor fuel pump, four dollars and fifty cents.