1. On the firstday of the second month following the beginning of each registration year a penalty of five percent of the annual registration fee shall be added to the annual registration fees not paid by that date and an additional penalty of fivepercent shall be added the first day of each succeeding month, until the fee is paid. A penalty shall not be less than five dollars. Ifthe owner of a vehicle surrenders the registration plates for a vehicle prior to the plates becoming delinquent, to the county treasurer of the county where the vehicle isregistered, or to the department ifthe vehicle is registered under chapter 326, the owner may register the vehicle any time thereafter upon payment of the annual registration fee for the registration year without penalty. To avoid a penalty or an additional penalty in the case of a delinquent registration through a county treasurer, ifthe last calendar day of a month falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a holiday, the payment deadline isextended to include the firstbusiness day of the following month. For payments made through a county treasurer’s authorized internet siteonly, ifthe last day of the month fallson a Saturday, Sunday, or a holiday, the electronic payment must be entered by midnight on the firstbusiness day of the next month. All other electronic payments must be entered by midnight on the last day of the month preceding the delinquent date. 2. Theannual registrationfee fortrucks, truck tractors, androad tractors registered by the countytreasurer, asprovided insections 321.120,321.121, and 321.122, may be payable intwo equal semiannual installments ifthe annual registration fee exceeds the annual registration fee for a vehicle with a gross weight exceeding fivetons. The penalties provided in subsection 1 shall be computed on the amount of the first installment only and on the first day of the seventh month of the registration period the same rate of penalty shall apply to the second installment, until the fee ispaid. 3. Ifa penalty applies to an annual vehicle registration feeprovided forinsections 321.120, 321.121, and 321.122, the same penalty shall be assessed on the fees collected to increase the registered gross weight of the vehicle, ifthe increased gross weight is requested within forty-five days from the date the delinquent vehicle is registered for the current registration period. 4. Notwithstanding subsections 1 through 3, if a vehicle registration is delinquent for twenty-four months or more, a flatpenalty and fee shall be assessed for the delinquent period inaddition tothe currentannual registrationfee. Theflat penaltyand fee shall be onehundred fiftypercent of the current annual registration fee. 5. The department shall waive the penaltiesimposed by this section for an owner whois in the militaryservice of the United States and who has been relocated asa resultof being placed on activeduty on or after September 11, 2001. The departmentshall adopt rules to implement this subsection, including, if necessary, procedures for refunding penalties collected prior to March 29, 2004. [SS15, §1571-m7; C24, 27, 31, 35, §4931; C39, §5009.02; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.134] §13; 2008 Acts, ch 1113, §100; 2012 Acts, ch 1093, §13, 40; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §257; 2013 Acts, ch 103, §10; 2017 Acts, ch 92, §1
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