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SSB 3106
Topics:Transportation
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2022
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 17, 2022
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 2347
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 2347 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 2347 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
463 limits the gross weight of a vehicle based on the highway of travel and the number of axles and the distance between the axles on the vehicle. Generally, vehicles are allowed to have a maximum gross weight of up to 80,000 pounds on any highway, and commercial motor vehicles with six or seven axles are allowed to have a gross weight of up to 96,000 pounds on noninterstate highways.463, Code chapter 321E authorizes single-trip, multi-trip, and annual permits for vehicles of excessive size and weight.
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Generally, such permits may be issued by the department of transportation (DOT) for vehicles traveling on primary highways, primary road extensions in cities in conjunction with movements on the rural primary road system, and secondary roads or city streets at the request of a local authority. A local authority may also generally issue such permits for streets or highways under its jurisdiction. The DOT may issue an annual all-systems permit authorizing vehicles of excessive size and weight, not to exceed 80,000 pounds, to travel on state highways and those streets or highways of local authorities that have indicated to the DOT the streets or highways for which an all-systems permit is not valid. The fee for an annual all-systems permit is $160. _____ under Code chapter 321 and not exceeding a gross weight of 90,000 pounds. Vehicles permitted under the bill are prohibited from traveling on any portion of the interstate road system. The fee for the permit is $500. Of the fee, $375 must be deposited into the county bridge construction fund and $125 must be deposited in the road use tax fund.
Changed since by amendments H-8353, S-5097; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 8, 2022. On February 10, 2022 it recommended amendment and passage.
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Fiscal note
3 million per year. The DOT’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) estimates a one-time cost of $40,000 to pay the vendor to update the programming of the Iowa Automated Permitting System. There is also a one-time estimated cost of $8,000 to create a new embargo map for the new permit type under the Bill, and an ongoing yearly cost of $2,000 to update the map.
- Final Fiscal Note — Overweight Vehicle Permits · June 27, 2022
- Overweight Vehicle Permits · April 12, 2022
- Overweight Vehicle Permits · April 11, 2022
- Overweight Vehicle Permits · March 28, 2022
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