Iowa Code 321M.9 – Financial responsibility
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1.
Fees to counties.
a. Notwithstanding any other provision in the Code to the contrary, the county treasurer of a county authorized to issue driver‘s licenses under this chapter shall retain for deposit in the county general fund all of the following:
(1) Seven dollars of fees received for each issuance or renewal of driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards, but shall not retain any moneys for the issuance of any persons with disabilities identification devices.
(2) Twenty-five dollars of fees collected for each part of a commercial driver’s license driving skills test pursuant to section 321M.6A.
(3) The five dollar processing fee charged by a county treasurer for collection of a civil penalty under section 321J.17.
(4) The ten-dollar convenience fee collected pursuant to subsection 2.
b. The county treasurer shall remit the balance of fees and all civil penalties to the department.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 321M.9
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- County issuance: means the system or process of issuing driver's licenses, nonoperator's identification cards, and persons with disabilities identification devices, including all related testing, to the same extent that such items are issued by the department. See Iowa Code 321M.1
- Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 321H.2
- Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 321M.1
- Digitized photolicensing equipment: means the machines and related materials, obtained pursuant to contract, the use of which results in the on-site production of driver's licenses and nonoperator's identification cards. See Iowa Code 321M.1
- Driver: means a person who operates a motor vehicle for the transportation of railroad workers in the motor vehicle on behalf of a railroad worker transportation company, whether the person is employed by the company for wages or drives for the company as an independent contractor. See Iowa Code 327F.39
- 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
- Issuing county: means a county that is participating in county issuance. See Iowa Code 321M.1
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- 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
- Persons with disabilities identification devices: means those devices issued pursuant to chapter 321L. See Iowa Code 321M.1
- property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Resident: means as defined in section 483A. See Iowa Code 321I.1
- road: include public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" "common road" and "state road". See Iowa Code 4.1
2.
Convenience fee.
A county authorized to issue driver’s licenses under this chapter may charge, in addition to any other fee imposed by law, a convenience fee for the issuance or renewal of a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card to a person who is not a resident of the county, unless that person pays property tax to the county and provides proof of payment such as a receipt as provided in section 445.5, subsection 6, or another form of proof as determined by the county. The convenience fee shall be ten dollars.
3.
Digitized photolicensing equipment.
a. The department shall pay for all digitized photolicensing equipment, including that used by the department and authorized for use by issuing counties under this subsection. Moneys from the road use tax fund shall be used, subject to appropriation by the general assembly, for payment of costs associated with the purchase or lease of digitized photolicensing equipment.
b. An issuing county shall be entitled to one set of digitized photolicensing equipment, unless the county was served at multiple sites by the department, in which case the county shall be entitled to two sets of digitized photolicensing equipment.
4.
Other equipment.
The department shall pay for all other equipment needed by a county to participate in county issuance, comparable to the equipment provided for issuance activities by a department itinerant team, with the exception of the following:
a. Office furniture.
b. Computer hardware needed to access department computer databases, facsimile machines used to transmit documents between the department and the county, and similar office equipment of a general nature that is not dedicated solely or primarily to the issuance process.