Indiana Administrative Code › Title 45 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVENUE › Article 16 - PETROLEUM SEVERANCE TAX › Rule 1 - Motor Carrier Department › Section 1-11 - Annual vehicle registration identification stamps; fee

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 8-2.1-18-6
Affected: IC 8-2.1-18
Sec. 11.
(a) Pursuant
				to IC 8-2-7-50
[Repealed by P.L. 72-1988, SECTION 10, effective March 1,
				1990.]
, and except as provided by paragraphs (e) and (g) of this
				section, no motor vehicles, except vehicles operated in driveaway or towaway
				service, or any motor bus carrier operating a foreign licensed vehicle in
				interstate commerce in special or chartered service under the provisions of IC
				8-2-7-29(b)
[Repealed by P.L. 108-1983, SECTION 13, effective September
				1, 1983.]
, shall be operated under any certificate of public
				convenience and necessity, permit or acknowledgement of registration of
				interstate authority without the operating carrier having first obtained a
				valid annual vehicle registration identification stamp issued by the commission
				for the motor vehicle. A motor carrier may apply for such number of stamps as
				it anticipates will be sufficient to cover its motor vehicles that will be
				placed in operation during the period for which such identification stamps are
				effective by completion of such application form as from time to time may be
				prescribed by law. A motor carrier may, from time to time, apply for the
				purchase of additional stamps and cab cards as needed.
(b) Upon receipt of an annual vehicle
				registration identification stamp for a motor vehicle, the carrier shall
				complete and execute a uniform identification cab card for such vehicle, which
				uniform identification cab card for motor vehicles operated solely in
				intrastate commerce shall be in such form as from time to time may be
				prescribed and approved by the commission. The uniform identification cab card
				for motor vehicles, including a motor vehicle providing the motive power for
				vehicles operated in driveaway and towaway service, operated in interstate or
				interstate-intrastate commerce shall be in such form as from time to time may
				be prescribed and approved by the interstate commerce commission. Each uniform
				identification cab card shall be typed or printed in indelible ink and
				maintained in the cab of the motor vehicle for which prepared whenever the
				vehicle is operated under the authority of the carrier identified on the cab
				card. Such cab card shall not be used for any vehicle except the vehicle for
				which it was originally prepared, unless as otherwise authorized by the
				commission under paragraph (f) of this section; i.e., a cab card shall
				terminate at the termination of the lease of the vehicle for which it is
				prepared, or on January 31 of the following year, whichever occurs first. Any
				erasure, alteration or unauthorized use of a cab card other than provided for
				in paragraph (f) of this section shall render it void. If a motor carrier
				permanently discontinues the use of a vehicle for which a cab card has been
				prepared, it shall nullify the cab card at the time of such discontinuance,
				unless such cab card is transferred to a replacement motor vehicle pursuant to
				paragraph (f) of this section.
(c)
				Upon execution of a uniform identification cab card for a motor vehicle, the
				carrier executing said cab card shall affix permanently thereon by use of the
				glue on the back of the identification stamp the proper annual vehicle
				registration identification stamp, which stamp may not thereafter be removed
				from said cab card or used on any other cab card. Any attempt to remove said
				identification stamp shall nullify both the identification stamp and the
				uniform cab card to which it is affixed.
(d) When a mailing or shipment of
				identification stamp(s) and/or cab card(s) by the commission is not received
				due to the failure of the U.S. Post Office or other carrier used by the
				commission to deliver such stamp(s) and/or cab card(s), the same will be
				replaced, provided the motor carrier advises the director of the motor carrier
				department of the nondelivery within thirty (30) days of the date of shipment
				by the commission; and further provided that an officer of said motor carrier,
				within three (3) days thereafter, executes a verified affidavit setting forth
				the circumstances of order and nondelivery of the stamp(s) and/or cab card(s)
				and forwards the same to the director of the motor carrier department.
In no other instance shall lost vehicle registration
				  identification stamps be replaced by the commission.
(e) Any motor vehicle operated by any common
				or contract motor carrier under proper acknowledgement of registration of
				interstate authority issued by this commission may traverse the highways of the
				state of Indiana in interstate commerce without a registration stamp issued by
				this commission, provided that said vehicle so operated is properly licensed in
				the state where fully qualified and registered; and further provided that the
				state in which the vehicle is registered has entered into a contract, agreement
				or arrangement with the state of Indiana pursuant to which like reciprocal
				privileges are extended by that state to motor carriers of the state of
				Indiana.
(f)
(1) Each authorized common or contract motor
				carrier (hereinafter referred to as "authorized carrier") shall destroy a cab
				card immediately upon its expiration, except as otherwise provided in (2) of
				this paragraph.
(2) An authorized
				carrier permanently discontinuing the use of a vehicle, for which a Uniform
				Form D (interstate) Cab Card or Uniform Form D-1 (intrastate) Cab Card has been
				prepared, shall nullify said Cab Card at the time of such discontinuance;
				provided, however, that if such discontinuance results from destruction, loss
				or transfer of ownership of a vehicle and such carrier provides a
				newly-acquired vehicle in substitution therefor within thirty (30) days of the
				date of such discontinuance, each identification stamp and number placed on the
				Uniform Form D Cab Card or Uniform Form D-1 Cab Card prepared for such
				discontinued vehicle, if such card is still in the possession of the carrier,
				may be transferred to the substitute vehicle by compliance with the following
				procedure:
(A) Such authorized carrier shall
				duly complete and execute the form of certificate printed on the front of a new
				Uniform Form D Cab Card or New Uniform Form D-1 Cab Card, so as to identify
				itself and the substitute vehicle and shall enter the appropriate expiration
				date in the space provided below such certificate;
(B) Such authorized carrier shall indicate
				the date it terminated use of the discontinued vehicle by entering same in the
				space provided for an early expiration date which appears below the certificate
				of the Cab Card prepared for such vehicle; and
(C) Such authorized carrier shall affix the
				Uniform Form D Cab Card or Uniform Form D-1 Cab Card prepared for the
				substitute vehicle to the front of the Cab Card prepared for the discontinued
				vehicle, by permanently attaching the upper left-hand corners of both cards
				together in such a manner as to permit inspection of the contents of both cards
				and, thereupon, each identification stamp or number appearing on the card
				prepared for the discontinued vehicle shall be deemed to apply to the operation
				of the substitute vehicle.