Iowa Code 321G.33 – Vehicle identification number
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1. The department may assign a distinguishing number to a snowmobile when the serial number on the snowmobile is destroyed or obliterated and issue to the owner a special decal bearing the distinguishing number which shall be affixed to the snowmobile in a position to be determined by the department. The snowmobile shall be registered and titled under the distinguishing number in lieu of the former serial number. Every snowmobile shall have a vehicle identification number assigned and affixed as required by the department.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 321G.33
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Commission: means the natural resource commission of the department. See Iowa Code 321G.1
- Department: means the department of natural resources. See Iowa Code 321G.1
- Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of constructing or assembling snowmobiles required to be registered under this chapter and who has an established place of business for that purpose in this state. See Iowa Code 321G.1
- Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property right in or title to a snowmobile. See Iowa Code 321G.1
- Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, and the state, its agencies, and political subdivisions. See Iowa Code 321G.1
- Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
- Snowmobile: means a motorized vehicle weighing less than one thousand pounds which uses sled-type runners or skis, endless belt-type tread with a width of forty-eight inches or less, or any combination of runners, skis, or tread, and is designed for travel on snow or ice. See Iowa Code 321G.1
- Vehicle: means any vehicle as defined in chapter 321. See Iowa Code 321H.2
2. The commission shall adopt, by rule, the procedures for application and for issuance of a vehicle identification number for homebuilt snowmobiles.
3. A person shall not destroy, remove, alter, cover, or deface the manufacturer‘s vehicle identification number, the plate or decal bearing it, or any vehicle identification number the department assigns to a snowmobile without the department’s permission.
4. A person other than a manufacturer who constructs or rebuilds a snowmobile for which there is no legible vehicle identification number shall submit to the department an affidavit which describes the snowmobile. In cooperation with the county recorder, the department shall assign a vehicle identification number to the snowmobile. The applicant shall permanently affix the vehicle identification number to the snowmobile in a manner that such alteration, removal, or replacement of the vehicle identification number would be obvious.