2023 Indiana Code › Title 9. Motor Vehicles › Article 25. Financial Responsibility › Chapter 6. Suspension of Driving Privileges and Vehicle Registrations › 9-25-6-3. Certificate of Compliance Not Received From Person Identified in Accident Report; Receipt of Certificate Not Indicating Financial Responsibility in Effect; Suspension of License; Exceptions

Sec. 3. (a) If the bureau:
(1) does not receive a certificate of compliance during the applicable compliance response period for a person identified under IC 9-25-5-2; or
(2) receives a certificate that does not indicate that financial responsibility was in effect with respect to the motor vehicle operated by the person or operation of the motor vehicle by the person on the date of the accident referred to in IC 9-25-5-2;
the bureau shall take action under subsection (d).
(b) If the bureau:
(1) does not receive a certificate of compliance during the applicable compliance response period for a person presented with a request for evidence of financial responsibility under IC 9-25-9-1; or
(2) receives a certificate that does not indicate that financial responsibility was in effect with respect to the motor vehicle or operation of the motor vehicle that the person was operating when the person committed the violation described in the judgment or abstract received by the bureau under IC 9-25-9-1;
the bureau shall take action under subsection (d).
(c) If the bureau:
(1) does not receive a certificate of compliance during the applicable compliance response period for a person presented with a request under IC 9-25-10 (before its repeal); or
(2) receives a certificate that does not indicate that financial responsibility was in effect on the date requested;
the bureau shall take action under subsection (d).
(d) Under the conditions set forth in subsection (a), (b), or (c), the bureau shall immediately suspend the person's driving privileges, motor vehicle registration, or both, until proof of future financial responsibility is filed by the person with the bureau under subsection (g).
(e) Except as provided in subsection (f), if subsection (a), (b), or (c) applies to a person, the bureau shall suspend the driving privileges of the person irrespective of the following:
(1) The sale or other disposition of the motor vehicle by the owner.
(2) The cancellation or expiration of the registration of the motor vehicle.
(3) An assertion by the person that the person did not own the motor vehicle and therefore had no control over whether financial responsibility was in effect with respect to the motor vehicle.
(f) The bureau shall not suspend the driving privileges of a person to which subsection (a), (b), or (c) applies if the person, through a certificate of compliance or another communication with the bureau, establishes to the satisfaction of the bureau that the motor vehicle that the person was operating when the accident referred to in subsection (a) took place or when the violation referred to in subsection (b) or (c) was committed was:
(1) rented from a rental company;
(2) shared through a peer to peer vehicle sharing program (as defined in IC 24-4-9.2-4); or
(3) owned by the person's employer and operated by the person in the normal course of the person's employment.
(g) As to any suspension described in this section:
(1) the bureau shall stay the suspension for one hundred and eighty (180) days upon a showing of proof of future financial responsibility by the person who has had the person's driving privileges, motor vehicle registration, or both, suspended; and
(2) if the bureau does not receive proof that financial responsibility has lapsed after the period of one hundred and eighty (180) days, the bureau shall terminate the suspension.
(h) If the bureau receives notice that financial responsibility has lapsed during the period of one hundred and eighty (180) days under subsection (g), the bureau shall lift the stay of suspension and again suspend the person's driving privileges, motor vehicle registration, or both.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-2-1.5-9(b).]
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.59-1994, SEC.7; P.L.268-2003, SEC.31; P.L.125-2012, SEC.259; P.L.59-2013, SEC.20; P.L.188-2015, SEC.97; P.L.120-2017, SEC.4; P.L.253-2019, SEC.1; P.L.86-2021, SEC.6.