Iowa Code 321A.7 – Duration of suspension
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If a person‘s license and registration or nonresident‘s operating privilege has been suspended as provided in section 321A.5, that license and registration or privilege shall remain suspended and shall not be renewed and a new license or registration shall not be issued to that person until one of the following has occurred:
1. The person deposits, or there is deposited on the person’s behalf, the security required under section 321A.5.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 321A.7
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 321H.2
- Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 321A.1
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Judgment: means a judgment which has become final by expiration without appeal during the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or a judgment if an appeal from the judgment has been perfected, which has not been stayed by the execution, filing, and approval of a bond as provided in rule of Iowa Code 321A.1
- License: means a driver's license as defined in section 321. See Iowa Code 321A.1
- Nonresident: means a person who is not a resident of this state. See Iowa Code 321I.1
- Nonresident: means every person who is not a resident of this state. See Iowa Code 321A.1
- Person: includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint adventure, or association, and the plural as well as the singular number. See Iowa Code 321H.2
- Person: means every natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation. See Iowa Code 321A.1
- Registration: means a registration certificate or certificates and registration plates issued under the laws of this state pertaining to the registration of motor vehicles. See Iowa Code 321A.1
- State: means any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any province of the Dominion of Canada. See Iowa Code 321A.1
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. Twelve months have elapsed after such accident and the department has not been notified by any party to the action or an attorney for any party that an action for damages arising out of such accident has been instituted within one year from the date of the accident.
3. Evidence satisfactory to the department has been filed with the department of a release from liability, or a final adjudication of nonliability, or a warrant for confession of judgment, or a duly acknowledged written agreement, in accordance with section 321A.6, subsection 4. If, however, there is any default in the payment of any installment under any confession of judgment, then, upon notice of such default, the department shall immediately suspend the license and registration or nonresident‘s operating privilege of such person defaulting which shall not be restored unless and until the entire amount provided for in said confession of judgment has been paid. In addition, if there is any default in the payment of any installment under any duly acknowledged written agreement, then, upon notice of such default, the department shall immediately suspend the license and registration or nonresident’s operating privilege of that person defaulting and the license and registration or nonresident’s operating privilege shall not be restored unless and until one of the following occurs:
a. Such person deposits and thereafter maintains security as required under section 321A.5 in such amount as the department may then determine.
b. Twelve months have elapsed after such security was required and the department has not been notified by any party to the action or an attorney for any party that an action upon such an agreement has been instituted in a court in this state within one year after such security was required.