A local commercial vehicle has a license that only lets it drive within 25 miles of where it is registered. For $5, the owner can get a special permit to drive that vehicle outside that 25-mile zone, but only to take it to a repair shop or maintenance place — and only while the vehicle is empty. The permit lasts 10 days. Also, if a utility company has customers who lost service because of an emergency like a storm, the utility can use those locally licensed vehicles outside the 25-mile zone until service is restored.
301.175. s for — definition — of fees — emergencies, use of local commercial vehicles to restore beyond zone. — 1. Upon the for and payment of a fee of five dollars the shall a maintenance trip permit at any office issuing motor vehicle license plates. Any of a may apply for the maintenance trip permit by certifying on the application for such a that the permit be used solely for the purpose of operating the motor vehicle and its mounted equipment, while empty, to or from a place of repair or , or place where its mounted equipment may be repaired or replaced, beyond the twenty-five mile license zone. The or of the who issues the permit shall enter on such permit the name of the of the vehicle, the address of the place to which the vehicle is , the place of origin for the trip, the destination for the trip, the number of the local commercial license issued for that vehicle, the vehicle make and year model, and the date, time and place of .
2. of a duly issued permit shall entitle the of a locally licensed commercial vehicle to operate the vehicle beyond the twenty-five mile for which licensed for the purposes set out in 1 of this section.
3. "Maintenance trip permit", as used in this section, means a issued as a supplement to a local commercial license for the sole purpose of allowing the operation of a vehicle licensed as a local commercial vehicle, while empty, to or from a place of repair or maintenance within a period of ten days from the time of issuance.
4. All fees collected by the director of revenue under the of this section shall be deposited with the to the of the .
5. to the contrary, whenever a , as defined in section 386.020, has customers without utility service due to a weather-related or other type of emergency, the public utility may use locally licensed to make service trips to the areas of the service outages, even if such areas are outside the twenty-five-mile commercial license zone. The vehicles may operate in the areas of service outages until service is restored, and then such vehicles may make the trip to their local area.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1965 p. 469 § 1, A.L. 1989 S.B. 238)
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