Senate File 153 amends existing Iowa law regarding driver age qualifications for transporting hazardous materials. Specifically, it removes the previous stipulation that age qualifications apply to drivers for private and for-hire motor carriers operating solely intrastate when transporting hazardous materials that require placarding. The bill establishes that the minimum age for these exempted intrastate operations is eighteen years.

Additionally, the bill modifies the age requirements for retail dealers of fertilizers, petroleum products, and pesticides, along with their employees, allowing them to deliver these products to farm customers within a one-hundred-mile radius of their retail location without being subject to the age requirements previously outlined in section 321.449. This change aims to facilitate the delivery of essential agricultural products while maintaining safety regulations.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 321.449, 321.450
Enrolled: 321.449, 321.450