DOT Administrative Rules
Iowa currently has an extensive set of administrative rules. If you are unfamiliar with administrative rules, they help implement, interpret, prescribe a law or policy, or more completely describe a procedure or the requirements of an agency.
Executive Order 10: Administrative Rulemaking Moratorium & Review
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Executive Order Number 10 on January 10, 2023, putting a moratorium on administrative rulemaking and instituting a comprehensive review of all existing administrative rules.
- Executive Order 10
- 2024 DOT Rule Schedule
(including completed Red Tape Review Rule Report, and Regulatory Analysis, if repromulgating the chapter) - 2025 DOT Rule Schedule
EO 10 Exception—Final Regulatory Analysis
- Chapter 511, June 2023
- Chapters 511 and 607, November 2023
- Chapters 529, 607, 800, 810, and 911, February 2024
The Executive Order directs a comprehensive evaluation and rigorous cost-benefit analysis of existing rules to evaluate their public benefits, whether the benefits justify the cost, and whether there are less restrictive alternatives to achieve their intended objective.
The goals of the Executive Order are:
- Implement a deliberative approach to rulemaking
- Increase public input in the rulemaking process
- Eliminate rules that do not provide substantiated benefits to Iowans
- Adopt the least costly way to realize the public benefits or purpose of a rule
- Adhere to the rulemaking authority granted by the legislature
- Reduce page and word count of the administrative code
- Reduce restrictive language (shall, must, may not, prohibit, require, restrict)
- Avoid verbatim repetition of statutory language, cite the statute instead
Administrative Rules
The Iowa Administrative Code is updated biweekly.
- View the Iowa DOT's administrative rules
- View the administrative rules for all state agencies
- View other administrative rules information
Iowa DOT rules tracker
The following link tracks the rule-making process for Iowa DOT rulemakings from Notice of Intended Action to adoption and includes public comment deadlines, public hearing dates, Administrative Rules Review Committee (ARRC) meeting dates and actions taken, published rule-making documents (ARCs), and effective dates.
Iowa DOT Regulatory Plan
The Iowa DOT Regulatory Plan is updated annually and lists the proposed regulatory actions that the DOT reasonably expects to issue in proposed or final form in this fiscal year or thereafter.
Petitions for Rule Making, Waiver of Rules and Declaratory Orders
The following Iowa DOT administrative rule chapters explain the process for submitting a petition for rule making, petition for waiver or a petition for a declaratory order. All petitions must be submitted to the DOT’s Rules Administrator via email or U.S. mail. Please see the Rules Administrator’s contact information.