Section 321E.29. Excess size divisible load permits.

  1.  Vehicles or a combination of vehicles with divisible loads in excess of the width, length, or height requirements of chapter 321 may be moved on the highways of this state if the department or permit-issuing authority determines there is a special or emergency situation which warrants the issuance of a special permit. The combined gross weight or gross weight on any one axle or group of axles may exceed the limits established in section 321.463, subject to the limits and routes established by the permit-issuing authority.

  2.  Annual permits may be issued for vehicles with divisible loads of hay, straw, stover, or bagged livestock bedding without a finding of special or emergency situations if the movement meets the requirements of this chapter, provided the following limits are not exceeded:

  a.  Overall width not to exceed twelve feet five inches.

  b.  Overall length not to exceed seventy-five feet.

  c.  Overall height not to exceed fourteen feet six inches.

  d.  Total gross weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles not to exceed eighty thousand pounds.

[C79, 81, §321E.29]

2013 Acts, ch 49, §21

; 2015 Acts, ch 123, §35

Subsection 2, unnumbered paragraph 1 amended