Sec. 26. (a) The superintendent may assign qualified persons who are not state police officers to supervise or operate permanent or portable weigh stations. A person assigned under this section may stop, inspect, and issue citations to operators of trucks and trailers having a declared gross weight of at least ten thousand one (10,001) pounds and buses at a permanent or portable weigh station or while operating a clearly marked Indiana state police vehicle for violations of the following:

(1) IC 6-1.1-7-10.

(2) IC 6-6-1.1-1202.

(3) IC 6-6-2.5.

(4) IC 6-6-4.1-12.

(5) IC 8-2.1.

(6) IC 9-18 (before its expiration) or IC 9-18.1.

(7) IC 9-19.

(8) IC 9-20.

(9) IC 9-21-7-2 through IC 9-21-7-11.

(10) IC 9-21-8-41 pertaining to the duty to obey an official traffic control device for a weigh station.

(11) IC 9-21-8-45 through IC 9-21-8-48.

(12) IC 9-21-8-59.

(13) IC 9-21-9.

(14) IC 9-21-15.

(15) IC 9-24-1-1.

(16) IC 9-24-1-7.

(17) IC 9-24-3-4.5.

(18) IC 9-24-4.

(19) IC 9-24-5 (before its expiration).

(20) Except as provided in subsection (c), IC 9-24-6.1.

(21) IC 9-24-8.5.

(22) IC 9-24-11-4.

(23) IC 9-24-11-7.

(24) IC 9-24-11-8(a).

(25) IC 9-24-11-8(b).

(26) IC 9-24-13-3.

(27) IC 9-24-18-1.

(28) IC 9-24-19-1.

(29) IC 9-25-4-3.

(30) IC 9-28-4.

(31) IC 9-28-5.

(32) IC 10-14-8.

(33) IC 13-17-5-1, IC 13-17-5-3, or IC 13-17-5-4.

(34) IC 13-30-2-1.

     (b) For the purpose of enforcing this section, a person assigned under this section may detain a person in the same manner as a law enforcement officer under IC 34-28-5-3.

     (c) A person assigned under this section may not enforce IC 9-24-6.1-7 and IC 9-24-6.1-8.

[Pre-2003 Recodification Citation: 10-1-1-25.]

As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.210-2005, SEC.72; P.L.156-2006, SEC.23; P.L.21-2007, SEC.4; P.L.26-2010, SEC.1; P.L.125-2012, SEC.399; P.L.135-2013, SEC.11; P.L.2-2014, SEC.51; P.L.217-2014, SEC.180; P.L.198-2016, SEC.633; P.L.257-2017, SEC.41; P.L.88-2022, SEC.4.