COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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§§ 3046-3048. MOTOR VEHICLES. Tit. XI, Ch. 17.
114 "Imported motor vehicle" shall mean any motor vehicle which
115 shall be brought into this state from another country or state other-
116 wise than in the ordinary course of business by or through a manu-
117 facturer, dealer or used car dealer and which has not been registered
118 in this state.
[S., '13, § 1571-ml ; 38 G. A., ch. 275, §§ 1, 2; 38 G. A., ch.
370, § 1; 39 G. A., ch. 159, §§ 1,19.]
SEC. 3046. When license required.
1 Every motor vehicle kept in this state and whose owner is a resi-
2 dent of this state, and every motor vehicle kept in this state, except
3 temporarily by a nonresident owner and every motor vehicle kept and
4 used in this state a majority of the time, and every motor vehicle used
5 in this state and not properly licensed under the laws of another state
6 shall not be operated by its own power upon any public highway with-
7 out being licensed and without carrying license number plates and
8 proper license certificate and without having had its license fee duly
9 paid, all as required by law.
10 Any such motor vehicle once licensed in the state and by removal
11 not longer subject to license in this state, shall upon being returned
12 to this state and subject to license be again originally licensed.
13 Every motor vehicle originally licensed as provided by law shall,
14 so long as it is subject to license, within the state, pay a license fee in
15 advance as herein further provided.
[38 G. A., ch. 275, § 3; 39 G. A., ch. 159, § 2.]
SEC. 3048. Registration by county treasurer—plates—trailers.
1 Upon receipt of the application and license fee for a motor
2 vehicle, as provided in this chapter, the county treasurer shall file
3 such application in his office and register such motor vehicle with
4 the name, postoffice address and business address of the owner,
5 together with the facts stated in such application, in a book or index
6 to be kept for the purpose, under the distinctive number assigned to
7 such motor vehicle by the county treasurer, which book or index shall
8 be open to public inspection during reasonable business hours, and he
9 shall give to the owner a receipt for the fee paid, and shall forthwith
10 assign to such motor vehicle a distinctive number, and, without
11 expense to the applicant, shall issue and deliver, or forward by mail
12 or express to the owner, a certificate of registration and container for
13 same in such form as the department may prescribe, and duplicate
14 number plates bearing a number corresponding to the number assigned
15 to such motor vehicle.
16 Upon receipt of the application and license fee for a trailer, as
17 provided in this chapter, the county treasurer shall issue a receipt for
18 the fee paid and shall at once forward the duplicate receipt to the
19 department. The county treasurer shall register and assign to the
20 trailer a distinctive number and shall forward to the owner a certifi-
21 cate of registration and a single number plate bearing the number cor-
22 responding to the number assigned to the trailer. In the event of the
23 loss, mutilation or destruction of any number plate, the owner of the
24 registered motor vehicle, or manufacturer, or dealer, as the case may
25 be, may obtain from the department a duplicate thereof upon filing
26 in the office of the department an affidavit showing such facts and