Indiana Administrative Code › Title 45 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVENUE › Article 16 - PETROLEUM SEVERANCE TAX › Rule 1 - Motor Carrier Department › Section 1-10 - Vehicle identification; numbering and lettering

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 8-2.1-18-6
Affected: IC 8-2.1-18
Sec. 10.
NUMBERING AND LETTERING OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
(a) Method of Identification of Motor
				Vehicles Operated in Intrastate Commerce. No intrastate common or contract
				carrier for hire shall operate motor vehicles over the public highways of the
				State of Indiana unless there shall be displayed on both sides of each vehicle
				operated under its own power the name or trade name of the motor carrier under
				whose authority the vehicle or vehicles is or are being operated and the
				certificate or permit number assigned to such operating authority by the
				Commission. The certificate or permit number shall be in the following form:
				"P.S.C.I. No. _____ ", but need not include any sub-numbers which may have been
				assigned. If the name of any person other than the operating carrier appears on
				a vehicle operated either alone or in combination under its own power, the name
				of the operating carrier shall be followed by the information required above
				and shall be preceded by the words "operated by".
(b) Size, Shape and Color. The display of
				name and number prescribed in this Rule
[this section]
shall
				be in letters and figures not less than one and three-fourths (1 3/4) of an
				inch in height nor shall said letters and figures be less than three-eighths
				(3/8) of an inch in letter-line or stroke width. All such letters and figures
				shall contrast in shape and color to the background on which they are displayed
				and shall be so located on each side of the motor vehicle as to be plainly
				visible to the traveling public at all times. If display is accomplished
				through use of a removable device, such device shall be firmly attached to the
				motor vehicle; it shall be constructed of durable material, such as wood,
				plastic or metal, and otherwise so prepared as to meet the identification and
				legibility requirements set out in this Rule
[this section]
.
(c) Passenger Vehicles-When
				Exempted; Procedure. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (e) of this Rule
[this
				section]
shall not apply to motor vehicles used in the transportation
				of passengers by common carriers when such vehicles are used in providing
				through transportation of passengers, in regular services, over the authorized
				routes of two or more of such carriers under a continuing interchange or lease
				of equipment arrangement between such carriers, if the vehicle owner's name and
				certificate numbers are displayed thereon in the manner provided in Paragraph
				(a) herein, and if there shall have been filed with the Director and posted in
				each terminal and ticket agency on the involved routes a published schedule of
				the carriers, clearly showing the points or places between which each carrier
				assumes and bears complete control and responsibility for the operation of the
				interchanged or leased vehicle.
(d) Method of Identification of Motor
				Vehicles Operated in Interstate Commerce. No interstate common or contract
				carrier for hire shall operate motor vehicles over the public highways in the
				State of Indiana unless there shall be displayed on each such motor vehicle
				such identification of carrier name and operating authority as required by the
				Rules and Regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
(e) Method of Identification for Motor
				Vehicles Operated in Both Interstate and Intrastate Commerce. No common or
				contract carrier for hire which holds authority to operate in both intrastate
				and interstate commerce within the borders of the State of Indiana shall
				operate motor vehicles over the public highways of said State unless there
				shall be displayed thereon the intrastate P.S.C.I. identification required by
				Paragraph (a) of this Rule
[this section]
, as well as the
				interstate identification required by Paragraph (d) of this Rule.
Transferred from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
					 ( 170 IAC 2-1-10 ) to the Department of State Revenue ( 45 IAC 16-1-10 ) by
					 P.L. 72-1988, SECTION 12, effective July 1,
					 1988.