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IN Code § 8-2-17-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 17. Ferries─licensing by Cities|8-2-17-6. Vacation of Ferry; Appeals

Sec. 6. If any ferry is not faithfully maintained and operated according to the terms of the recognizance provided for in section 4 of this chapter, the legislative body on complaint to them shall cause the proprietor of the ferry to be summoned before the legislative body to show cause why the ferry shall not be discontinued. The legislative body shall vacate the ferry or dismiss the complaint, according to the testimony, and may award costs against the complainant if such complaint is dismissed, or against the proprietor if the ferry be vacated. The vacation of the ferry shall not prevent the city or town, or any interested person, from recovering damages for any breach of the bond provided for in section 4 of this chapter. The ferrykeeper or any user of the ferry shall have the right to appeal from the decision of the legislative body to the circuit court, superior court, or probate court of the proper county upon filing therein a bond, within thirty (30) days thereafter, payable to the state, with security to be approved by the court, and conditioned for the due prosecution of the appeal, and the payment of all costs if judgment be rendered against the appellant. Upon appeal, the circuit court, superior court, or probate court shall have the power to try the question of whether cause for the discontinuance of the ferry has been established.Formerly: Acts 1921, c.137, s.6; Acts 1959, c.235, s.6. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.113; P.L.8-1989, SEC.47; P.L.84-2016, SEC.37.
IN Code § 8-2-17-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 17. Ferries─licensing by Cities|8-2-17-7. Violation of Conditions of License

Sec. 7. A person licensed to keep and maintain a ferry under this chapter who does any act in violation of the conditions of his license commits a Class C infraction.Formerly: Acts 1921, c.137, s.7; Acts 1959, c.235, s.7. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.817.
IN Code § 8-2-17-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 17. Ferries─licensing by Cities|8-2-17-8. Operation Without License or Authorization

Sec. 8. A person who keeps, maintains, or runs a ferry without being licensed or authorized according to this chapter commits a Class C infraction.Formerly: Acts 1921, c.137, s.8. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.818.
IN Code § 8-2-18-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 18. Intrastate Railroad Freight Rates|8-2-18-1. Statements to Patrons; Offenses; Civil Damages

Sec. 1. (a) Every common carrier doing intrastate business within Indiana shall, within a reasonable time, give a written statement of the rate applicable to a described shipment between stated points in Indiana under the schedules or tariffs of the carrier, upon written request by a person who is a bona fide prospective shipper or receiver of freight, or who has a bona fide interest therein, made upon a general or local freight or station agent of the carrier.(b) If a carrier refuses or omits to give a statement under subsection (a) within a reasonable time, or misstates in writing the applicable rate, and the person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation making the request suffers harm in consequence of the refusal, omission, or misstatement of the rate, either through making the shipment over a line or route for which the proper rate is higher than the rate over another available line or route or through entering into a sale, purchase, or contract by which the person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation is or becomes obligated to make or receive a shipment of freight, the carrier is liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250), which accrues to the state.(c) The fine under subsection (b) may be recovered, together with reasonable attorney's fees, in a civil action by the Indiana department of transportation.(d) In addition to being liable to the Indiana department of transportation, a carrier is liable to the person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation injured for the amount of the injury, together with six percent (6%) interest from the date of the injury and reasonable attorney's fees.(e) Liability under this section is not discharged by the carrier unless the discharge is approved by the Indiana department of transportation as being free from any attempt or purpose to evade a law of this state.(f) If during the course of any action upon the liability to the person injured it appears to the satisfaction of the court or jury trying the cause that the parties have combined or agreed to obtain or allow any undue advantage or rebate or preference to the injured person, upon a finding to that effect, the cause shall be dismissed and the dismissal and finding reported by the court to the Indiana department of transportation and to the proper prosecuting attorney having jurisdiction.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.184, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.114; P.L.384-1987(ss), SEC.9; P.L.18-1990, SEC.30; P.L.8-1993, SEC.133.
IN Code § 8-2-18-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 18. Intrastate Railroad Freight Rates|8-2-18-2. Appeals

Sec. 2. Such dismissal shall be taken and deemed a final judgment, and appeal may be taken therefrom or from any other judgment in any such cause the same as in other civil cases.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.184, s.2.
IN Code § 8-2-18-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 18. Intrastate Railroad Freight Rates|8-2-18-3. Penalties or Forfeitures; Double Jeopardy

Sec. 3. No carrier making any settlement or payment upon the approval of the said commission or pursuant to a judgment or order of court under this chapter shall be liable for any penalty or forfeiture or subject to any prosecution under any other law of this state on account of the said payment or settlement.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.184, s.3. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.115.
IN Code § 8-2-18-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 18. Intrastate Railroad Freight Rates|8-2-18-4. Submission of Information

Sec. 4. The Indiana department of transportation may require from a person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation any information necessary to the determination of whether the department shall give its approval to a claim under this chapter. If a request for information is refused by the injured person, the department may decline the claim, and the claim shall not be sued upon thereafter. If the information is refused, a request for information evaded, or the search for information by the department be made difficult by the carrier, the department shall endorse the fact on the claim and the endorsement shall support any action as if approved by the department.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.184, s.4. As amended by P.L.384-1987(ss), SEC.10; P.L.18-1990, SEC.31; P.L.8-1993, SEC.134.
IN Code § 8-2-19-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 19. Suspension of Certain Railroad Freight Rates|8-2-19-1. Suspension Pending Transportation Department Determination

Sec. 1. (a) Whenever there is filed with the Indiana department of transportation a schedule stating a new individual or joint rate or charge, a new individual or joint classification, or a new individual or joint regulation or practice affecting a rate or charge, the department has the authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleadings by the interested carrier or carriers, upon reasonable notice, to hold a hearing concerning the propriety of the rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice.(b) Pending a hearing and the decision, the Indiana department of transportation, upon filing with the schedule and delivering to the carrier or carriers a statement in writing of its reason may suspend the operation of the schedule and defer the use of the rates, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, for a period not longer than one hundred and twenty (120) days beyond the time when the rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice would otherwise go into effect.(c) After full hearing, whether completed before or after the rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the Indiana department of transportation may make an order as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after it had become effective.(d) If a hearing cannot be concluded within the period of suspension, the Indiana department of transportation may extend the time of suspension for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days, and if the proceeding has not been concluded and an order made at the expiration of thirty (30) days, the proposed change of rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice shall go into effect at the end of the period.(e) At a hearing involving a rate sought to be increased, the burden of proof to show that the increased rate or proposed increased rate is just and reasonable is upon the common carrier. The Indiana department of transportation shall give to the hearing and decision of such questions preference over all other questions pending before it and decide the same as speedily as possible.Formerly: Acts 1911, c.186, s.1; Acts 1929, c.143, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.116; P.L.89-1985, SEC.10; P.L.18-1990, SEC.32.
IN Code § 8-2-20-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 20. Railroad Freight Rate Compliance|8-2-20-1. Charging Rate Different From Quoted Rate

Sec. 1. The various railroad corporations doing business within the state of Indiana shall not, at any time, increase or advance their rates of freight, or charge for the transportation thereof from one (1) point to another a sum greater than the rate of freight or charge for transportation asked or charged by said railroad corporations at the time such freight is offered or tendered to said railroad corporations for transportation, and all statutes in effect on March 16, 1867, conflicting with the provisions of this chapter are hereby repealed.Formerly: Acts 1867, c.81, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.117.
IN Code § 8-2-21-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2. Regulation of Carriers Generally|Chapter 21. Railroad Freight Rates─limitation of Actions|8-2-21-1. Limitation of Actions

Sec. 1. (a) All actions at law by carriers for recovery of their charges or any part thereof must begin within three (3) years from the time the cause of action accrues and not after.(b) For recovery of overcharges, actions at law must begin, or complaint must be filed with the Indiana department of transportation, against carriers subject to this chapter within three (3) years from the time the cause of action accrues and not after, subject to subsection (c), except that if claim for the overcharge is presented in writing to the carrier within the three (3) year period of limitation, the period shall be extended to include six (6) months from the time notice in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant of disallowance of the claim or any part or parts thereof specified in the notice.(c) If on or before the expiration of the three (3) year period of limitation in subsection (a) or (b), a carrier subject to this chapter begins action under subsection (a) for recovery of charges in respect of the same transportation service, or without beginning action, collects charges in respect of that service, the period of limitation shall be extended to include ninety (90) days from the time such action is begun or charges are collected by the carrier.(d) The cause of action in respect of a shipment of property for the purposes of this section accrues upon delivery or tender of delivery thereof by the carrier and not after.(e) The term "overcharges", as used in this section, means charges for the transportation services in excess of those applicable thereto under the tariffs lawfully on file with the Indiana department of transportation.Formerly: Acts 1941, c.151, s.1; Acts 1961, c.110, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.118; P.L.89-1985, SEC.11; P.L.18-1990, SEC.33.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-1. Application

Sec. 1. The definitions in this chapter apply throughout this article.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-2. "Broker"

Sec. 2. "Broker" means:(1) a person who:(A) is not a common carrier or contract carrier;(B) is not a bona fide employee or agent of a common or contract carrier; and(C) as principal or agent, sells or offers to sell transportation service subject to regulation under this article; or(2) a person who negotiates for, or professes to be, by solicitation, advertisement, or otherwise, a person who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts, or arranges for transportation service subject to regulation under this article.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.1; P.L.42-2007, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-3. "Certificate"

Sec. 3. "Certificate" means:(1) the certificate issued by the department to an intrastate motor carrier; or(2) the acknowledgment issued by the department to an interstate common carrier or a contract carrier.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-4. "Common Carrier"

Sec. 4. "Common carrier" means a person that is regulated as a common carrier under this article.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-5. "Contract Carrier"

Sec. 5. "Contract carrier" means a person that is regulated as a contract carrier under this article.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-6. "Department"

Sec. 6. "Department" refers to the department of state revenue.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-6.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-6.5. "Digital Network"

Sec. 6.5. "Digital network" means an online enabled application, software, web site, or system offered or used by a TNC to enable the prearrangement of rides with TNC drivers.As added by P.L.175-2015, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-7. "Emergency Temporary Authority"

Sec. 7. "Emergency temporary authority" means limited term motor carrier operating authority issued for periods of thirty (30) days or less to meet an immediate and urgent need for service due to emergencies, in which time or circumstances do not reasonably permit the filing and processing of an application for temporary authority.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-7.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-7.5. "Freight Forwarder"

Sec. 7.5. "Freight forwarder" means any person that:(1) holds itself out to the general public (other than as a pipeline, rail, motor, air, or water carrier) as a provider of transportation of property for compensation; and(2) in the ordinary course of its business:(A) assembles and consolidates, or provides for assembling and consolidating, shipments and performs or provides for breakbulk and distribution operations of the shipments;(B) assumes responsibility for the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination; and(C) uses a carrier subject to this article for any part of the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination.As added by P.L.42-2007, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-8. "Household Mover"

Sec. 8. "Household mover" means any person who undertakes, whether directly or by a lease or other arrangement, to transport household goods by motor vehicle for compensation on any public highway between two (2) or more points in Indiana, whether over regular or irregular routes, in excess of one thousand (1,000) pounds per shipment for a single shipper regardless of the number of trips or movements made for the same shipper.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-9. "Household Goods"

Sec. 9. (a) "Household goods" means:(1) personal effects and property used or to be used in a dwelling when the effects and property are parts of the equipment or supply of that dwelling;(2) furniture, fixtures, equipment and the property of stores, offices, museums, institutions, hospitals, or other establishments when these items are parts of the stock, equipment, or supply of those stores, offices, museums, institutions, hospitals, or other establishments; and(3) articles including objects of art, displays, and exhibits that because of their unusual nature or value require the specialized handling and equipment usually employed in moving household goods.(b) Subsection (a)(1) does not include property moving from a factory or store, except property that the householder has purchased with intent to use in the dwelling and that is transported at the request of, and the transportation charges paid to the carrier by, the householder. Subsection (a)(2) does not include the stock-in-trade of any establishment, whether consignor or consignee, other than used furniture and used fixtures, except when transported as an incident to the removal of the establishment, or a portion thereof, from one (1) location to another. Subsection (a)(3) does not include any article, whether crated or uncrated, that does not, because of its unusual nature or value, require the specialized handling and equipment usually employed in moving household goods.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-9.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-9.1. "Leasing Company"

Sec. 9.1. "Leasing company" means a lessor that is engaged in the business of leasing or renting for compensation motor vehicles without drivers to a motor carrier, motor private carrier, or freight forwarder.As added by P.L.42-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-9.3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-9.3. "Limousine"

Sec. 9.3. "Limousine" means a motor vehicle that:(1) is a passenger vehicle; and(2) is designed and constructed to accommodate and transport not more than fifteen (15) passengers, including the driver.As added by P.L.70-1990, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-10. "Motor Carrier"

Sec. 10. "Motor carrier" means a common carrier, contract carrier, or carrier certified in accordance with rules adopted by the department under IC 4-22-2.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-11. "Motor Vehicle"

Sec. 11. "Motor vehicle" means a truck, a tractor, a trailer, a semitrailer, a motor bus or another self-propelled or motor driven vehicle that is operated upon a public highway for the purpose of transporting persons or property for hire.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-11.2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-11.2. "Motor Vehicle Insurance"

Sec. 11.2. "Motor vehicle insurance" means any type of insurance described in IC 27-1-5-1, Class 2(f).As added by P.L.175-2015, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-12. "Permit"

Sec. 12. "Permit" means:(1) the permit issued by the department to an intrastate contract carrier; and(2) the acknowledgment issued by the department to an interstate contract carrier as evidence of the registration of the contract carrier's interstate contract authority.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-13. "Person"

Sec. 13. "Person" means an individual, corporation, firm, or partnership.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-13.2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-13.2. "Personal Vehicle"

Sec. 13.2. "Personal vehicle" means a vehicle that is:(1) used by a TNC driver to provide a prearranged ride;(2) owned, leased, or otherwise authorized for use by the TNC driver; and(3) not a taxicab, limousine, or other for hire vehicle.As added by P.L.175-2015, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-13.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-13.5. "Prearranged Ride"

Sec. 13.5. (a) "Prearranged ride" means the provision of transportation by a TNC driver to a TNC rider:(1) beginning when the TNC driver accepts a TNC rider's request for a ride through a digital network controlled by a TNC;(2) continuing while the TNC driver transports the requesting TNC rider; and(3) ending when the last requesting TNC rider departs from the personal vehicle.(b) The term "prearranged ride" does not include transportation provided through any of the following:(1) A shared expense carpool or vanpool arrangement.(2) Use of a taxicab, limousine, or other for hire vehicle.(3) A regional transportation authority established under IC 36-9-3.As added by P.L.175-2015, SEC.4.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-14. "Public Highway"

Sec. 14. "Public highway" means a street, alley, road, highway, or thoroughfare in Indiana used by the traveling public.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8.
IN Code § 8-2.1-17-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 2.1. Motor Carrier Regulation|Chapter 17. Definitions|8-2.1-17-16. "Taxicab"

Sec. 16. "Taxicab" means a motor vehicle that:(1) is designed and constructed to accommodate and transport not more than six (6) passengers in addition to the driver;(2) does not operate over any definite and designated routes within the corporate boundaries of a city or town and the suburban territory of a city or town; and(3) transports passengers to the destination designated by the passengers at the time of their transportation.The term does not include a personal vehicle operated by a TNC driver.As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.175-2015, SEC.5.