Conditions for granting permits; local authorities; jurisdiction
Sec. 2. (a) The Indiana department of transportation or any agency
or political subdivision of the state designated by the Indiana
Department of Transportation shall grant a permit to operate a
tractor-mobile home rig on an Indiana highway to a person upon the
following conditions and upon the rules that the Indiana Department
of Transportation prescribes:
(1) The tractor-mobile home rig must be operated in a manner
that will not impede traffic or increase the hazard to traffic.
(2) The tractor-mobile home rig may be operated only on days
other than Sunday and the legal holidays that the Indiana
department of transportation prescribes. The tractor-mobile
home rig may be operated between one-half (1/2) hour before
sunrise and one-half (1/2) hour after sunset on any weekday,
and between one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise and noon on
Saturday.
(3) The tractor-mobile home rig may be operated only over the
roads or highways in the state highway system, including,
except to the extent provided in section 5 of this chapter, the
routes designated as federal highways and the state maintained
routes through cities and towns. The tractor-mobile home rig
may not extend past the center line of those roads and
highways.
(4) The person to whom the permit is granted shall present
satisfactory evidence of the person's financial responsibility, as
provided in IC 9-25, to the granting authority.
(5) If in use as a towing vehicle component of a tractor-mobile
home rig, the towing vehicle for which the permit is granted
must have a wheelbase of not less than one hundred twenty
(120) inches.
(6) A permit granted for the towing vehicle component of a
tractor-mobile home rig may be suspended or revoked by the
Indiana department of transportation for violation of any of the
conditions of the permit set forth in this section.
(7) The towing vehicle may be operated only over the roads or
highways approved by the authority granting the permits.
(b) Except as provided in section 5 of this chapter, this section
does not prevent a local authority with respect to highways and roads
under the authority's jurisdiction from granting permission to operate
a tractor-mobile home rig on roads and highways under the
authority's jurisdiction that are not highways in the state highway
system or state maintained routes through cities and towns.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.125-1993, SEC.1;
P.L.119-1995, SEC.4.
Last modified: May 27, 2006