Section 321H.2. Definitions.

  As used in this chapter and unless a different meaning appears from the context:

  1.  “Authorized vehicle recycler” means a person licensed to operate as a vehicle rebuilder, used vehicle parts dealer or vehicle salvager.

  2.  “Department” means the state department of transportation.

  3.  “Extension” means a place of business of an authorized vehicle recycler other than the principal place of business within the county of the principal place of business.

  4.  “National motor vehicle title information system” means the federally mandated motor vehicle title history database maintained by the United States department of justice that links the states’ motor vehicle title records, including the department’s title records, and that requires the reporting of junk and salvage motor vehicles in order to ensure that states, law enforcement agencies, insurers, and consumers have access to information that enables the verification of a vehicle’s history, and the accuracy and legality of a motor vehicle’s title, before a purchase or title transfer occurs.

  5.  “Person” includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint adventure, or association, and the plural as well as the singular number.

  6.  “Selling” includes bartering, exchanging, or otherwise dealing in.

  7.  “Used vehicle parts dealer” means a person engaged in, or advertising as being engaged in, the business of selling bodies, parts of bodies, frames, or component parts of used vehicles subject to registration.

  8.  “Vehicle” means any vehicle as defined in chapter 321.

  9.  “Vehicle rebuilder” means a person engaged in, or advertising as being engaged in, the business of rebuilding or restoring to operating condition vehicles subject to registration which have been damaged or wrecked.

  10.  “Vehicle salvager” means a person engaged in, or advertising as being engaged in, the business of scrapping, recycling, dismantling, or storing wrecked or damaged vehicles or selling reusable parts of vehicles or storing vehicles not currently registered which vehicles are vehicles subject to registration.

  11.  “Vehicle subject to registration” means any vehicle that is of a type required to be registered under chapter 321 when operated on a public highway, including but not limited to a vehicle that is inoperable, salvage, or rebuilt.

  12.  “Wrecked or salvage vehicle” means a damaged vehicle for which the cost of repair exceeds fifty percent of the fair market value of the vehicle before it became damaged.

[C79, 81, §321H.2]

97 Acts, ch 108, §32

; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §106

; 2009 Acts, ch 130, §29, 30

; 2014 Acts, ch 1027, §2

; 2015 Acts, ch 52, §7, 14

2015 amendment adding subsection 4 takes effect January 1, 2016; 2015 Acts, ch 52, §14

NEW subsection 4 and former subsections 4 – 11 renumbered as 5 – 12