Indiana Code 8-2.1-24-3. Exemptions
(1) Motor vehicles used exclusively for carrying United States mail.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 8-2.1-24-3
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. Source: U.S. Mint
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(A) the United States government, the state, or a political subdivision; or
(B) the board of trustees of a state institution.
(3) Motor vehicles while transporting supplies, livestock feed ingredients, fertilizer, or fertilizing materials that are in transit to or from farms.
(4) Motor vehicles:
(A) controlled and operated by a farmer when used in the transportation of the farmer’s agricultural commodities and products of those commodities or in the transportation of supplies to the farm;
(B) controlled and operated by a nonprofit agricultural cooperative association (or by a federation of agricultural cooperative associations if the federation does not possess greater powers or purposes than the cooperative associations);
(C) used in carrying property consisting of livestock or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products) if the motor vehicles are not used in carrying:
(i) other property;
(ii) agricultural commodities; or
(iii) passengers;
for compensation; or
(D) used in carrying livestock feed or feed ingredients, if those products are transported to a site of agricultural productions or to a business enterprise engaged in the sale of agricultural goods to a person engaged in agricultural production.
This chapter shall not be construed to apply to motor vehicles owned, leased, controlled, or operated by a nonprofit cooperative association, either incorporated or unincorporated, that was in existence on July 6, 1961.
(5) Motor vehicles, commonly known as armored cars, used exclusively to transport, under written bilateral contract, coin, currency, bullion, securities, precious metals, jewelry, precious stones, money, legal tender, stocks and bonds, negotiable and nonnegotiable instruments and securities, postage and revenue stamps, and other valuable documents and rare objects.
(6) Motor vehicles operating exclusively in intrastate commerce that have a gross vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination weight, or gross combination weight rating equal to or less than twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds. However, the motor vehicle may not be:
(A) used to provide for-hire transport;
(B) designed or used to transport sixteen (16) or more passengers, including the driver; or
(C) used to transport hazardous material in amounts requiring a placard.
As added by P.L.110-1995, SEC.29. Amended by P.L.42-2007, SEC.12; P.L.9-2010, SEC.2.