CHAPTER 1. GENERAL

IC 9-20
    ARTICLE 20. SIZE AND WEIGHT REGULATION

IC 9-20-1
    Chapter 1. General

IC 9-20-1-1
Operation of vehicles exceeding size and weight limitations;prohibition
    Sec. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this article, a person,including a transport operator, may not operate or move upon ahighway in Indiana a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size orweight exceeding the limitations provided in this article.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.

IC 9-20-1-2
Owners of motor vehicles; causing or permitting operation ofvehicles exceeding size and weight limitations; prohibition
    Sec. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this article, an owner ofa vehicle may not cause or knowingly permit to be operated ormoved upon a highway in Indiana a vehicle or combination ofvehicles of a size or weight exceeding the limitations provided in thisarticle.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.

IC 9-20-1-3
Local authorities; adoption of ordinances; erection of signs;department of transportation; weight restrictions
    Sec. 3. (a) This subsection does not apply to any highway or streetin the state highway system. Except as provided in subsection (e),local authorities, with respect to highways under their jurisdiction,may by ordinance:
        (1) prohibit the operation of vehicles upon any highway; or
        (2) impose restrictions as to the weight of vehicles to beoperated upon any highway;
for a total period not to exceed ninety (90) days in any one (1) year,whenever any highway by reason of deterioration, rain, snow, orother climatic conditions will be seriously damaged or destroyedwithout the regulation of vehicles.
    (b) A local authority adopting an ordinance under subsection (a)shall erect or cause to be erected and maintained signs specifying theterms of the ordinance at each end of that part of any highwayaffected by the ordinance and at intersecting highways. Theordinance may not be enforced until the signs are erected andmaintained.
    (c) Except as provided in subsection (e), local authorities withrespect to highways under their jurisdiction, except highways in thestate highway system and state maintained routes through cities andtowns, may by ordinance do the following:
        (1) Prohibit the operation of trucks or other commercial

vehicles.
        (2) Impose limitations as to the weight, size, or use of thosevehicles on designated highways.
The prohibitions and limitations must be designated by appropriatesigns placed on the highways.
    (d) The Indiana department of transportation has the sameauthority granted to local authorities in subsections (a) and (c) todetermine by executive order and to impose restrictions as to weight,size, and use of vehicles operated upon a highway in the statehighway system, including state maintained routes through cities andtowns. These restrictions may not be enforced until signs givingnotice of the restrictions are erected upon the highway or part of thehighway affected by the order.
    (e) A local authority may not, in an ordinance passed undersubsection (a) or (c), prohibit the operation of buses that are not morethan forty-five (45) feet in length on any segment of the primarysystem (as defined in IC 8-23-1-33) that was in existence on June 1,1991.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.100-1991, SEC.1;P.L.122-1993, SEC.1.

IC 9-20-1-4
Violation of restrictions; Class C infraction
    Sec. 4. A person who violates a restriction imposed under section3(d) of this chapter commits a Class C infraction.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.