Bloomington, IN

In the City of Bloomington, anyone who owns land with a residential swimming pool must restrict access to it under the requirements of the Indiana Administrative Code. Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington, a swimming pool must meet the Indiana Administrative Code's Swimming Pool Code, the Unified Development Ordinance's setback standard, and Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington, tree canopies must clear fifteen feet above any street surface and eight feet above any sidewalk. Owners must remove or trim dead, diseased or hazardous…

In the City of Bloomington, the mayor and the utilities director can declare emergency water-use restrictions during a fire, flood, drought, or other emergency under Bloomington…

Bloomington Municipal Code § 6.06.050 bars any lot owner in the City of Bloomington from letting weeds, grass or noxious plants grow beyond eight inches, or grow enough to become a…

In the City of Bloomington, cutting, removing, or treating a protected tree, or excavating within its drip line, requires a free tree work permit from the department under Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington, a compost pile kept as part of a noncommercial urban agriculture use cannot exceed six feet in height, and the refuse and compost area must be enclosed at…

Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance requires every green infrastructure facility, meaning detention basins, bioswales and raingardens built as part of a development project, to…

Every dog, cat, rabbit or ferret adopted out of the City of Bloomington Animal Shelter must be spayed or neutered before it goes home, at the city's expense, under Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington it is unlawful to keep any wild or exotic animal on your property under Bloomington Municipal Code Section 7.40.010, enforced by Bloomington Animal Care and…

Feeding deer on purpose is illegal anywhere in the City of Bloomington. Bloomington Municipal Code Section 7.40.030 makes it an offense to intentionally feed deer or leave food where…

In the City of Bloomington, every animal except spayed or neutered cats wearing identification or ear-tipped feral cats must be kept under restraint at all times, meaning on a leash or…

In the City of Bloomington, an animal declared potentially dangerous, dangerous, or vicious by the animal control commission must be implanted with a microchip, on top of confinement…

In the City of Bloomington, no one may own or harbor more than a total of nineteen cats and dogs over twelve months old without a kennel permit. Service dogs don't count toward the…

In the City of Bloomington, no pet shop may sell cats or even offer them for sale; violating that ban is a separate offense for every sale or offer under Chapter 7.56's enforcement…

In the City of Bloomington, keeping backyard chickens requires a flock permit from Animal Care and Control, a flock capped at five hens with no roosters, and a location in an estate…

Bloomington doesn't require a general cat license, but anyone feeding or sheltering a colony of feral cats in the City of Bloomington must register with Animal Care and Control and…

In the City of Bloomington, no one may keep a wild or exotic animal on their property for any purpose, and a list of specific reptiles, including venomous snakes, large pythons…

In the City of Bloomington, 'pet grooming' is a zoning use under the Unified Development Ordinance, not a separate Title 4 business license: Section 20.07.010 defines it as a fee-based…

In the City of Bloomington, a veterinarian clinic that keeps an outdoor kennel cannot have one in the MN, MM, or MD zoning districts, and an outdoor kennel in the MC zoning district…

Indiana does not require statewide apiary registration, but IC 14-24-8-4 bars bringing bees or beekeeping equipment in from another state or country without a permit from the Division…

In the City of Bloomington, a dog or other animal that barks, whines or howls excessively or continuously is legally a public nuisance, and its owner, guardian or colony caretaker must…

In the City of Bloomington, ordinary construction noise is exempt from the noise ordinance only between six a.m. and ten p.m. on non-Sundays and non-holidays, under Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington, playing a radio, loudspeaker, or sound amplifier so it's audible outside the immediate premises for fifteen minutes or more is a violation of Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington, driving with a cut-out or removed muffler is a violation of Bloomington Municipal Code § 14.09.030(c)(1), and playing a car stereo loud enough to be clearly…

In the City of Bloomington, aircraft noise is exempt from the local noise ordinance entirely: Bloomington Municipal Code § 14.09.040(g) excuses any aircraft operating under federal…

In the City of Bloomington, the Unified Development Ordinance bars parking a commercial vehicle or trailer overnight at any residence unless the home is occupied by the business owner…

In the City of Bloomington, an officer or parking enforcement officer who finds a vehicle believed abandoned must tag it under Bloomington Municipal Code Section 15.52.040, giving the…

In the City of Bloomington, city parks and recreation parking lots close to parked vehicles between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. under Bloomington Municipal Code § 15.40.025(b). The one…

In the City of Bloomington, a yellow-painted curb is legal notice that parking is prohibited there under Bloomington Municipal Code Section 15.32.010. Any vehicle stopped with any…

In the City of Bloomington, parking on dirt, sand, or grass is banned outright under Bloomington Municipal Code Section 15.32.025, and for single-family, duplex, triplex, fourplex…

In the City of Bloomington, marked loading zones under Bloomington Municipal Code Section 15.32.100 run twenty-four hours a day unless Schedule O says otherwise, and every vehicle…

In the City of Bloomington, eleven numbered residential neighborhood permit parking zones let residents and their visitors park during posted hours; Bloomington Municipal Code Section…

In the City of Bloomington, on-street parking is banned every night from 3:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. in the downtown area on an alternating-side schedule set by Bloomington Municipal Code…

In the City of Bloomington, Municipal Code Section 15.32.140 keeps a full travel lane open: no vehicle may park on a street, other than an alley, leaving less than twelve feet of…

In the City of Bloomington, any parking area with fifty or more spaces must dedicate one electric-vehicle space for every twenty-five spaces on site, with an ADA van-accessible EV…

In the City of Bloomington, vehicles and trailers cannot be stored or parked on an unimproved surface, and campers or tractor-trailers of any type cannot be used for storage or…

Indiana regulates nonconsensual towing through IC 24-14, the towing services article, backed by the abandoned vehicle rules in IC 9-22-1. If you reach your car while it is being hooked…

In the City of Bloomington, it is unlawful to erect, build, or maintain a barbed wire fence anywhere in the city under Bloomington Municipal Code § 14.36.030. The ban is citywide and…

In the City of Bloomington, a retaining wall is exempt from the fence and wall height limits in the Unified Development Ordinance, but it still has to be built to the manufacturer's…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance caps fences and walls behind the front building wall at eight feet and limits them to four feet forward of that wall, on every…

Indiana Code 32-26-9 governs partition fences between adjoining rural property owners, requiring shared cost and maintenance. The law applies statewide to fences where at least one…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance allows tiny homes only inside a permitted 'cottage development': a cluster of at least five small single-family homes under 500…

In the City of Bloomington, an accessory dwelling unit is limited to one per lot, capped at two bedrooms, and restricted to eight hundred forty square feet whether attached or…

In the City of Bloomington an accessory dwelling unit rented out must register with Housing and Neighborhood Development and be certified before occupancy, and the property owner must…

In the City of Bloomington, the Unified Development Ordinance caps how big a shed or other accessory structure can be by zoning district. Under Section 20.03.030(g)(1)(E), Table 03-4…

An accessory dwelling unit in the City of Bloomington only gets zoning approval if the owner actually lives on the property. Section 20.03.030(g)(5)(G) requires either the primary…

Running a home-based business in the City of Bloomington almost always means getting a certificate of zoning compliance first, under Section 20.03.030(g)(6)(B), and in Residential…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance carves home-based childcare out of its home occupation rules entirely. Section 20.03.030(g)(6)(A)(i) lists a childcare home that…

The City of Bloomington limits when clients can show up at a home-based business. Section 20.03.030(g)(6)(M) of the Unified Development Ordinance bars customer visits before eight a.m…

The City of Bloomington's zero-permit category for home activity comes with a hard no-sign rule. Section 20.03.030(g)(6)(A)(ii)(2) keeps a home-based activity out of the certificate of…

Indiana's cottage food scheme is Ind. Code § 16-42-5.3, the home based vendor chapter added by P.L.49-2022. Section 16-42-5.3-3 exempts a home based vendor's production and sale of…

Indiana never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, so there is no license to apply for and no inspection to schedule before cooking for sale at home. The state went the other…

In the City of Bloomington, no one may kindle or maintain a bonfire or open burning within city limits without a permit from the fire chief, per Bloomington Municipal Code § 18.16.020…

In the City of Bloomington, an open bonfire needs a permit from the fire chief under Bloomington Municipal Code § 18.16.020, but the same section exempts fire pits and grills used…

In the City of Bloomington, Bloomington Municipal Code § 18.12.020 requires smoke detectors to be installed and maintained under the building code that applied when the structure was…

The City of Bloomington doesn't write its own separate fireworks-discharge ordinance; instead, Section 14.09.040(l) of the noise code exempts legal consumer fireworks from the noise…

Indiana regulates propane through Chapter 61 of the 2014 Indiana Fire Code, adopted and amended statewide by the Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission at 675 IAC 22-2.5-41…

Indiana bans nearly all open burning statewide; IC 13-17-9 carves out narrow exemptions for agricultural and land-clearing vegetation, and every legal fire must be attended…

Indiana Code 36-1-24 prohibits local units from banning short-term rentals statewide. Cities and counties may impose reasonable regulations on permits, occupancy, noise, and safety…

Indiana imposes 7% state sales tax plus county innkeeper's tax on rentals under 30 days. Marketplace facilitators like Airbnb and Vrbo must collect and remit these taxes statewide…

In the City of Bloomington, no one may be on the waters or city-owned lands surrounding Griffy Lake after sunset or before sunrise. The only exceptions are night fishing and specially…

Indiana Code 31-37-3 establishes statewide juvenile curfew hours that apply in all jurisdictions. Children under 15 may not be in public places after 11 PM, while 15-17 year olds face…

In the City of Bloomington, a towing company cannot perform a non-consensual tow, one requested by a parking lot owner without the vehicle owner's consent, without a non-consensual tow…

Anyone who buys, sells or trades used goods for business purposes in the City of Bloomington must first get a license from the city controller under Bloomington Municipal Code §…

Anyone who wants to operate as a pawnbroker in the City of Bloomington must first get a license from the city controller under Bloomington Municipal Code § 4.18.020, on top of the…

In the City of Bloomington, a sexually oriented business cannot locate within five hundred feet of a place of worship, school, day care center, park, library, homeless shelter, another…

In the City of Bloomington, residents may repair a vehicle they own in their own parking area as long as no business is conducted and the activity is reasonable and customary, but no…

Indiana requires retailers to hold an Electronic Cigarette Retailer Certificate to sell vapor products, complying with age verification, packaging, and Tobacco 21 sales rules.

In the City of Bloomington, Municipal Code Chapter 2.29 requires new city-owned buildings to hit LEED-NC Silver certification at minimum, with major renovations held to the same…

In the City of Bloomington, the rental housing code makes it illegal to disable a carbon monoxide detector or smoke detector in a residential rental unit, under Bloomington Municipal…

In the City of Bloomington, an adult or child day care center sited in a Residential zoning district cannot open within five hundred feet of another day care center, must submit proof…

In the City of Bloomington, a building permit is required whenever construction, alteration, demolition, moving, or repair work meets or exceeds the scope set out in Title 17 of the…

In the City of Bloomington, electrical work is governed by the Indiana Electrical Code, which Bloomington Municipal Code § 17.04.060 adopts by reference as part of the city's…

In the City of Bloomington, plumbing installations must follow the Indiana Plumbing Code, adopted into Bloomington Municipal Code § 17.04.060 by reference as part of the city's…

In the City of Bloomington, elevators, escalators, manlifts and hoists in an unsafe building fall under the state's Article 21 safety code, which Bloomington Municipal Code §…

In the City of Bloomington it is unlawful to drink any alcoholic beverage on a publicly owned place or on any public street, highway or accessway. Bloomington Municipal Code Section…

Bloomington Municipal Code § 6.12.030 bans smoking on restaurant and bar patios, in courtyards, at service and ticket lines, near ATMs, and anywhere food or drink is sold, on top of…

In the City of Bloomington, Bloomington Municipal Code Section 15.56.025 treats a skateboard as a coaster, bars riding one on the sidewalks and crosswalks of ten named downtown…

In the City of Bloomington, no one may build a boathouse or permanent dock structure on land adjoining Lake Lemon within the flowage easement without written permission from the city…

In the City of Bloomington, dumping anything other than stormwater into a storm drain, ditch, or waterbody is illegal under Bloomington Municipal Code § 13.03.040, and so is building…

In the City of Bloomington, every construction site disturbing ground, no matter the size, must control erosion and sediment under Bloomington Municipal Code § 13.05.040, using best…

In the City of Bloomington, no structure may be located, altered or extended within an area of special flood hazard without a Floodplain Development Permit, and violations are treated…

New or substantially improved homes in a Bloomington special flood hazard area must have their lowest floor built at or above the Flood Protection Grade, defined as the base flood…

Building a permanent structure in, or removing water or material from, Lake Michigan or any Indiana navigable waterway requires a permit from the Department of Natural Resources under…

It is unlawful in the City of Bloomington to throw, place or scatter garbage, recyclable material or yard waste on any street, alley or premises, public or private. HAND treats every…

In the City of Bloomington, the City of Bloomington Utilities-billed sanitation division collects solid waste at least once a week from a city-provided cart on each household's…

In the City of Bloomington, every address that gets city solid-waste collection also gets weekly curbside recycling on its assigned day under Bloomington Municipal Code § 6.04.040…

In the City of Bloomington, recyclables must stay separated from trash and yard waste at the curb, and only materials on the department of public works' annually published list…

In the City of Bloomington, grass, leaves and garden waste must go into a watertight thirty-five gallon container or biodegradable paper bag, each under forty pounds, kept separate…

In the City of Bloomington, large items other than appliances can be set at the curb on your assigned collection day for a fee, but you must call the sanitation division at least one…

In the City of Bloomington, carts must go at the curb by 5:00 a.m. on collection day, clear of overhead lines, trees, mailboxes and fire hydrants by at least four feet and parked cars…

In the City of Bloomington, the department of public works collects solid waste, recycling and yard waste on each address's assigned day under rules the board of public works sets…

The Bloomington board of public works can move a resident's collection day when a holiday or bad weather disrupts the normal route, and Bloomington Municipal Code § 6.04.090 bars the…

Bloomington Municipal Code Chapter 6.05 requires every business and institution on commercial refuse collection to keep its dumpster covered and sanitary at all times, limits…

In the City of Bloomington, every owner or occupant of a house, building or vacant lot must keep the sidewalk in front of it in repair, and keep it clean and free of dirt, filth or…

In the City of Bloomington, closing, digging up, cutting into or excavating a street, sidewalk, alley or other right-of-way is unlawful without a right-of-way use permit from the city…

In the City of Bloomington, a contractor blocking a sidewalk for twenty-four hours or more under a right-of-way use permit must provide a walkaround at least five feet wide, protected…

In the City of Bloomington, a restaurant or retailer cannot put tables or merchandise on the public sidewalk without an encroachment permit from the engineering department and final…

In the City of Bloomington, no parade may march or proceed along any street without a permit from the chief of police under Bloomington Municipal Code § 15.60.070. An application must…

A street fair or festival in the City of Bloomington is a Special Event under the Unified Development Ordinance, and Section 20.03.030(h)(7) caps it at fifteen days and one permit per…

In the City of Bloomington, owners of property next to a public street must maintain the street tree lawn, the strip between the curb and the sidewalk, including mowing, raking and…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance requires developers to retain a set percentage of a site's existing tree canopy and directs that when individual trees must be…

In the City of Bloomington, anyone operating a pushcart selling food or beverages on sidewalks and the B-Line Trail needs a business license from the city controller under Bloomington…

A food truck or trailer operating in the City of Bloomington needs a separate business license for each unit from the city controller before setting up, under Bloomington Municipal…

Bloomington Municipal Code § 4.28.140 confines mobile food vendor units to specific zoning districts, commercial general, commercial arterial, commercial downtown, industrial general…

Bloomington Municipal Code § 4.16.050 blocks the city controller from even considering a solicitor's or mobile vendor's business-license application unless the applicant first proves…

Anyone soliciting door-to-door in the City of Bloomington, whether selling goods, taking orders or collecting contributions, must get a business license from the city controller before…

Bloomington Municipal Code § 4.28.160(v) caps generator noise from a mobile food vendor unit at 70 decibels on the A-weighted scale, measured four feet above ground and twenty-five…

A monument, streetscape, building, or site can become part of a City of Bloomington historic district if it meets the cultural or historic criteria in Bloomington Municipal Code…

Every owner of property abutting a sidewalk in the City of Bloomington must clear snow and ice within 24 hours after it stops falling or accumulating. Downtown sidewalks need a wider…

In the City of Bloomington, a structure found unsafe under state law can be sealed, repaired or ordered vacated through the city's Unsafe Building Law, Bloomington Municipal Code…

In the City of Bloomington, any company that leases or rents shared-use motorized scooters must hold a license from the Board of Public Works before deploying a single unit, under…

In the City of Bloomington, Bloomington Municipal Code Section 15.56.080 bars any motor vehicle from parking, stopping, or standing in a marked bicycle lane, except a public transit…

Indiana bans golf carts from public roads by default and hands the switch to local government. Ind. Code § 9-21-8-57 says a golf cart may not be operated on a highway except in…

In the City of Bloomington, every residential rental unit must undergo a HAND department cycle inspection at least sixty days before its occupancy permit expires, under Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington, any city resident, government employee, tenant, tenant's representative, owner or owner's agent can trigger a complaint inspection of a residential rental…

In the City of Bloomington, no owner may let a residential rental unit to a tenant without first registering it with the Housing and Neighborhood Development (HAND) department, under…

In the City of Bloomington, every residential rental unit must meet the exterior, interior and structural maintenance standards in Bloomington Municipal Code Chapter 16.04, part of the…

For nonpayment of rent, IC 32-31-1-6 lets a landlord terminate the lease with 'not less than ten (10) days notice,' and no eviction follows if the tenant pays in full before the period…

Indiana follows state landlord-tenant law under IC 32-31, which permits eviction on lease expiration or breach without requiring just cause. The state framework preempts attempts by…

Under IC 32-31-5-6, an Indiana landlord must give the tenant 'reasonable written or oral notice' before entering and may enter only at reasonable times, and may not abuse entry to…

Indiana's landlord-tenant statutes contain no late-fee cap, no required grace period, and no dedicated late-fee provision for residential rent. A late fee is enforceable only if the…

For a month-to-month or other tenancy at will, IC 32-31-1-1 requires a 'one (1) month notice in writing, delivered to the tenant' to terminate. A year-to-year tenancy needs at least…

Indiana prohibits local rent control. Indiana Code 32-31-1-20 bars any unit of local government from regulating rental rates for privately owned real property unless authorized by an…

Indiana sets no statutory limit on the security deposit amount. Under Indiana Code 32-31-3, a landlord must return the deposit, minus itemized lawful deductions, within 45 days after…

Indiana requires 10 years of possession to claim title by adverse possession (IC 34-11-2-11), and IC 32-21-7-1 adds that the possessor must have paid 'all taxes and special…

In the City of Bloomington, a ground- or building-mounted solar collector is an accessory use permitted in every zoning district under the Unified Development Ordinance. The panel must…

Indiana does not void covenants that ban rooftop solar. Instead IC 32-25.5-3.5 hands the homeowner a workaround the board cannot veto: gather signatures equal to either the number…

In the City of Bloomington, backyard grills and smokers do not need a fire chief burning permit. BMC § 18.16.020 exempts outdoor fires in pits or grills used solely for the preparation…

In the City of Bloomington, the Unified Development Ordinance caps impervious surface coverage by zoning district in Table 04-2 under BMC § 20.04.020. The single-family districts range…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance sets minimum yard setbacks by zoning district in Table 04-2 under Bloomington Municipal Code § 20.04.020. In the core…

The City of Bloomington caps building height by zoning district in Table 04-2 under BMC § 20.04.020. Primary structures top out at 40 feet in the R1, R2, and R4 districts and 35 feet…

The City of Bloomington bans planting species listed in Table 04-18, including Callery Pear, Norway Maple, Tree-of-Heaven and common buckthorn, because of their invasive…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance lists Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) as a Prohibited Invasive Tree on Table 04-18. Any landscaping installed under a…

In the City of Bloomington, the most frequently cited code violations are overgrown weeds and grass above eight inches and illegal garbage or yard-waste dumping under Bloomington…

In the City of Bloomington, the Unified Development Ordinance's Mixed-Use Downtown (MD) district is split into Downtown Character Overlays with their own design rules, under BMC §…

Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance lets a residential project that qualifies as Tier 1 or Tier 2 affordable housing build higher than its zoning district's baseline height…

The City of Bloomington's outdoor lighting ordinance exempts holiday lighting and seasonal decorations using typical unshielded low-intensity incandescent lamps from its shielding…

Bloomington's sign ordinance bans electronic reader boards outright unless they fit the narrow exception in Section 20.04.100(g)(3): built into permanent signage, capped at thirty…

Indiana Code 32-21-13 prohibits homeowners associations and restrictive covenants from banning political yard signs during a protected window. HOAs may impose only reasonable size…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance requires most outdoor light fixtures to be fully shielded and full cutoff so the bulb is never visible past the property line…

Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance caps how much light a fixture can throw across a property line: one footcandle at a point one meter beyond most lines, dropping to half a…

Indiana prohibits marijuana dispensaries entirely under IC 35-48-4. Because no licensed retail framework exists, cities cannot zone for or permit dispensaries. The statewide…

Indiana prohibits all marijuana cultivation, possession, and use under IC 35-48-4. No medical or recreational program exists, and home cultivation is a felony statewide. Local…

Indiana law preempts cities and counties from setting a local minimum wage above the state and federal floor of $7.25, with limited exceptions for public contracts.

Indiana has no statewide paid sick leave law for private employers, and no Indiana city has enacted a local paid sick leave ordinance. State law does not require private employers to…

Indiana law preempts local firearm regulation, barring cities and counties from passing or enforcing ordinances on firearms, ammunition, or accessories beyond state law.

Indiana permits open carry of handguns by lawful adults without a permit, subject to location-based restrictions and the state's preemption of local firearm regulation.

Indiana allows lawful adults at least 18 to carry a handgun in a vehicle without a permit, consistent with the state's permitless carry framework and firearms preemption.

Indiana's state design criteria table gives every county a wind speed of 115 mph, a weathering classification of Severe and required ice shield underlayment, while seismic design…

Indiana sets footing depth county by county in a single state table: 24 inches across much of the south, 30 inches through the middle of the state, and 36 inches along the northern…

Indiana accepts four ways to protect a foundation from frost, so digging below the county frost depth is only one option: a shallow foundation built to Section R403.3 or ASCE 32 is…

Indiana assigns each of its 92 counties a ground snow load of either 20 or 30 pounds per square foot, with the higher figure reserved for the northern counties along Lake Michigan and…

Indiana law names the only places a casino may ever operate: eleven owner's licenses total, allocated by statute to Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, one Lake Michigan-county city, five…

Indiana requires any charity, civic, fraternal, or veterans group to hold a license from the Indiana Gaming Commission before running bingo, raffles, pull tabs, punchboards, tip…

Indiana's gambling statute makes no exception for private social games. IC 35-45-5-2 criminalizes anyone who 'knowingly or intentionally engages in gambling,' a Class B misdemeanor…

Indiana Gaming Commission certificates of authority under IC 4-38 have let licensed casino owners, racino operating agents, and satellite off-track betting permit holders run sports…

Unpaid assessments become a homeowners association lien under Ind. Code § 32-28-14 once a notice of lien is recorded with the county recorder. The association may foreclose by court…

Indiana's HOA Act mandates transparency. Under Ind. Code § 32-25.5-3-3, the annual budget must be approved by a majority of members at a meeting, members may attend board meetings, and…

Covenant and architectural enforcement in Indiana flows from the recorded declaration, not the HOA Act. The Act (Ind. Code § 32-25.5) does not script architectural review, violation…

Indiana has no statute giving a homeowner the right to install an electric vehicle charging station in a deeded, assigned or exclusive use parking space, and nothing in the Indiana…

Since P.L.26-2026 added IC 32-21-13.5, an Indiana property owners association may not adopt or enforce any governing document provision that prohibits or restricts, or has the effect…

Indiana has no statute granting HOAs fining power or capping fine amounts. Authority to fine must come from the recorded declaration, bylaws, or rules; if the governing documents do…

Indiana runs two different association liens. A condominium association's unpaid assessments become a lien on the unit at the time of assessment under Ind. Code § 32-25-6-3(a), with…

Indiana lets an association ban or cap leasing, and the statutes contain no rental cap percentage, no minimum lease term and no grandfathering for owners already renting. The limits…

Indiana runs sobriety checkpoints but has never passed a law authorizing them. The word "checkpoint" appears in exactly one section of the Indiana Code, Ind. Code § 9-19-10-3.1, and…

No Indiana statute prohibits photographing or filming police, and Indiana's wiretap law is a one party consent law, so recording your own encounter with an officer is not an unlawful…

Indiana has no general stop and identify statute. The one provision that compels you to give your name, Ind. Code § 34-28-5-3.5, applies only after an officer has stopped you for an…

Indiana has no cannabis legalisation statute and therefore none of the "lawful possession is not grounds for a search" language that California, New York and Michigan drivers rely on…

Indiana allows counties to adopt agricultural zoning under IC 36-7-4 but limits restrictions on bona fide farming activities, especially in unincorporated areas.

Indiana Code 36-1-3-8.6 (2016) preempts local governments from banning, taxing, or regulating auxiliary containers, including plastic and paper bags. City or county single-use bag bans…

Indiana sets the minimum legal age at 21 for purchasing tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine products, with penalties for both retailers and underage buyers.

Indiana does not impose a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vape products, leaving sales of menthol and flavored e-liquid permitted under federal labeling and Indiana licensing laws.

Indiana licenses extra lamps by name and by count. Ind. Code §§ 9-19-6-13 through 9-19-6-16 allow a motor vehicle not more than two spot lamps, not more than two fog lamps mounted 12…

Indiana has no statute that names a dash camera, so a camera is governed by the general windshield rule and by an old television provision. Ind. Code § 9-19-19-3(b) prohibits driving…

Indiana has never written a lane splitting rule. The phrases lane splitting, lane filtering and between lanes return zero hits anywhere in the Indiana Code. What Indiana does say, at…

Indiana never uses the phrase license plate cover in its code, but Ind. Code § 9-18.1-4-4(b) reaches covers anyway. A plate must be maintained free from foreign materials and in a…

Indiana has never enacted a radar detector prohibition. A full text search of the 2026 Indiana Code, all 36 title files published by the General Assembly, returns the word radar nine…

Indiana lets any vehicle run metal tire studs from October 1 to the following May 1 and bans them for the rest of the year. Ind. Code § 9-19-18-3(d) caps the projection at three…

Indiana applies a single figure to the whole car. Ind. Code § 9-19-19-4(c) makes it an infraction to drive a vehicle whose windshield, side wing, front-door side window or rear back…