Gary, IN

When the mayor declares a snow emergency in the City of Gary, parking is banned on designated snow routes entirely, and on other streets from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. under an…

In the City of Gary it is unlawful to abandon a vehicle on public or private property, or to leave a partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked or junked vehicle anywhere in the city…

Gary bars trucks over three-fourths ton capacity, buses, semitrailers and trailers from residential-zoned streets and alleys except for expeditious delivery. Section 40-295 also caps…

Gary prohibits parking any vehicle, whether operable or inoperable, on a front or rear lawn unless the property has a properly constructed, approved driveway or parking pad in place…

Gary limits how long any trailer, including a boat or camping trailer hitched to a vehicle, can sit within city limits: Section 40-291 caps parking at 48 hours unless the trailer sits…

Gary bans stopping, standing or parking in specific spots citywide: on sidewalks, in front of driveways, within intersections, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, on crosswalks, and with…

Gary bars large trucks, four-plus-wheel vehicles, trailers and semitrailers from city streets and alleys between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. entirely, and caps their daytime parking there…

Residents of a Gary neighborhood can petition the board of public works and safety to create a residential parking zone limited to permit holders. Two-thirds of lawful residents must…

Gary paints curbs yellow in two settings grounded in its own code: the reserved space next to a resident's home once the board of public works issues a disability parking permit, and…

Gary designates certain curb areas as bus stops or loading zones under Municipal Code § 40-126, reserved for receiving and discharging commercial passengers. Zones must be eight feet…

Lake County's UDO permits private EV charging stations as an accessory use in all zoning districts, and public charging as an accessory to nonresidential uses. Charging spaces can…

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…

Gary bans playing radios, phonographs, or other sound equipment loud enough to disturb neighbors at any hour. Amplifiers or speakers audible from 10 feet away from the building…

Gary bans operating a car, motorcycle or other vehicle so out of repair or overloaded that it creates loud grating, grinding or rattling noise, and separately restricts horn use to…

Gary bans operating any noise-creating blower, power fan or internal combustion engine whose exploding gases or fluids create noise, unless the device is muffled and equipped with a…

Gary bars keeping any animal or bird whose frequent or long-continued noise disturbs the comfort or repose of reasonable neighbors, and separately bars stabling a horse, mule or other…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 28-174 bans erecting, demolishing, altering or repairing any building, including excavation, on Sundays and between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on any…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 28-162 makes any loud, unnecessary or unusual noise that disturbs others unlawful citywide, and § 28-172 specifically bars yelling, shouting…

Gary's M1 Limited Manufacturing District performance standards cap industrial noise using an eight-band octave table under Sec. 123-217(c)(2): the limit at a residence-district…

Aircraft noise in Indiana is governed primarily by federal law and the FAA, with the state regulating airport zoning and tall structures under IC 8-21. Local Indiana governments cannot…

In the City of Gary every property owner must cut grass and weeds so they never rise above eight inches, covering the lot itself and the strip between the property line and the curb…

Owners of corner lots in the City of Gary must keep trees trimmed clear of vision between six feet and three feet above the street crown within 30 feet of the curb, and other…

In the City of Gary, it is unlawful to trim, remove, plant, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, vine, flower or plant within any public street, alley, thoroughfare, lawn, park, parkway…

Gary requires at least one smoke detector per level in every new single-family or multi-family unit, mounted on the ceiling at least six inches from any wall (or on a wall six to 12…

Gary's fire prevention code lets residents burn a bonfire on private property only inside a wire, metal, concrete, or similar nonflammable container or enclosure. City Code § 22-51(a)…

Gary bans open burning in any street, alley, or road unless the fire sits in a nonflammable container or stays under a competent person's direct, constant supervision. Bonfires on…

Gary sets its own fireworks calendar each year by common council resolution, but the code guarantees consumer fireworks use from 5 p.m. to two hours after sunset on June 29 through…

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…

Gary's zoning code defines an accessory dwelling unit at Municipal Code § 123-1 but never lists that use among the permitted, transitional, or special uses authorized in any residence…

Gary limits accessory buildings, including sheds, to 40 percent of the required rear yard area and 15 feet in height under Municipal Code § 123-332(b), and § 123-333(e)(3) requires any…

Gary's zoning code defines a 'cottage' at Municipal Code § 123-1 as a small dwelling of 950 to 1,200 square feet that may serve as an accessory dwelling unit, but the term is not…

Unincorporated Lake County has no rule banning garage conversions outright, but converting interior floor area into a secondary suite (an ADU inside a detached house) triggers the…

In the City of Gary, keeping chickens, poultry, pigeons, or livestock such as horses, cattle, goats, sheep, and swine within 200 feet of another person's dwelling house is unlawful…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 8-40(a) lets animal control officers pick up and impound any unrestrained cat, and § 8-69(a) requires every cat over three months old to be…

In the City of Gary, Article V of Chapter 8 (§§ 8-135 through 8-146) singles out the American Pit Bull Terrier and other potentially dangerous dogs for licensing, a $500,000.00…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 8-9(b) makes it unlawful to keep bees within 200 feet of another person's dwelling house unless that person is the beekeeper. The rule sits in…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 8-3 requires every animal, including dogs, to stay under restraint at all times, meaning securely fenced, housed, or on a leash whenever off the…

In the City of Gary, a grooming shop qualifies as a commercial animal establishment under Municipal Code § 8-1 and must obtain a permit under § 8-70 before operating. The rabies…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 8-5 bans keeping any wild animal as a pet and bars keeping a wild or vicious animal on the premises for display or exhibition, whether that…

Gary caps how many licensed animals a household can keep without becoming a kennel. Municipal Code § 8-69(d) makes it unlawful to hold more than three animal licenses for one household…

Gary's zoning code permits animal and veterinary clinics only as a listed use in B4 General Service Districts. Sec. 123-195(b)(2)d admits clinics but excludes any animal kennel or…

Lake County requires a pet shop permit for anyone selling dogs, cats or other animals, bars sale of a puppy or kitten under eight weeks old, and forces shops to give buyers a written…

Lake County Animal Control treats a microchip as valid proof of ownership when a lost dog or cat is impounded. A chipped animal is held ten working days before it becomes county…

Before building a private swimming pool in the City of Gary, the owner must apply for and receive a permit from the department of health, submit complete construction plans and…

Every private swimming pool in the City of Gary, whether newly built or already constructed, must be enclosed by a fence at least four feet high that is not easily climbed by children…

In Gary's residential (R) zoning districts, Municipal Code § 123-333(e)(1) caps open mesh fences at six feet in side and rear yards without special approval, while front yard fences…

In Gary's business districts, Municipal Code § 123-333(e)(1)d bans any fence or wall containing barbed wire in the front yard or along a street or highway. Barbed wire is allowed…

A fence that exceeds Gary's by-right height limit needs board of zoning appeals approval first. In business districts, Municipal Code § 123-333(e)(1)c caps front yard fences and walls…

Unincorporated Lake County does not set a private good-neighbor or 'finished side out' rule, but its UDO makes property owners responsible for fences in easements and requires…

The Lake County UDO treats walls like fences for height and location, but requires walls to be opaque and built of durable masonry materials. Where grade changes, wall height is…

Gary Municipal Code § 123-1 defines 'home occupation' as work clearly incidental to residential use, with no employees, no equipment beyond domestic or hobby purposes, no exterior sign…

Running a nursery school or day care out of a home in Gary's R1 or R1A district is not allowed outright; § 123-155(c)(11) authorizes 'nursery schools and day care' only as a special…

Lake County's suburban home occupation rules bar any external change that alters the residential character of the lot and prohibit outdoor display of goods, effectively barring…

Indiana lets home based vendors sell non-hazardous homemade foods without a license under IC 16-42-5.3, exempt from food-establishment rules. Every product needs a label with the…

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…

Indiana law protects short-term rentals of an owner's residence. IC 36-1-24-8 makes an owner-occupied STR a permitted residential use that a zoning ordinance may not disallow in any…

Indiana's STR law lets a unit set a reasonable maximum occupancy, and the owner states an intended maximum on the permit application. Lake County proper sets no countywide STR…

Indiana defines a short-term rental as a stay of fewer than 30 days (IC 36-1-24-6) but sets no annual cap on rental nights. Lake County imposes no statewide-style night limit; any cap…

Under Indiana's statewide STR law (IC 36-1-24), a local unit may require a permit for each short-term-rental property, but the ordinance may impose only the requirements that state law…

There is no STR-specific state noise rule. Guests at a Lake County short-term rental must follow the same nuisance/noise ordinance that applies to any residence in the unincorporated…

Short-term stays in Lake County are subject to the 5% Lake County innkeeper's (lodging) tax under IC 6-9-2, on top of Indiana's 7% state sales tax. The tax applies to rooms and…

In the City of Gary it is unlawful to consume alcoholic beverages on public grounds, streets, sidewalks, alleys, parking lots or commercial premises. The rule sits inside the city's…

In the City of Gary, pedestrians must use a marked crosswalk when crossing between signaled intersections, and anyone who crosses mid-block or outside a marked or unmarked crosswalk…

In the City of Gary, smoking is banned outdoors within 15 feet of any entrance, window or ventilation intake of a building where smoking is already prohibited indoors, so tobacco smoke…

Gary makes it unlawful to loiter in or around public buildings, on public grounds and sidewalks, or on commercial premises after being directed to leave by police or the property's…

Gary's traffic code bans rollerskates, coasters, toy vehicles and similar devices, the closest 1960s-era language to modern skateboards, from city roadways except when crossing at a…

In the City of Gary every business building must be ratproofed, kept free of rats, and maintained ratfree to the health officer's satisfaction. Gary Municipal Code § 18-219 gives an…

Every peddler and transient merchant selling food in the City of Gary must hold a food handlers certificate issued by the health department before the city controller will approve the…

Anyone doing business as a peddler or transient merchant in the City of Gary, whether an adult or a child, must obtain a permit and license from the city controller before soliciting…

Registered solicitors in unincorporated Lake County can only knock on doors from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays, with no door-to-door selling…

Gary bars minors 17 and under from streets, alleys, vehicles or public places from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and overnight Friday and Saturday, with slightly…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 30-1(a) confines swimming to guarded areas of Marquette Park Beach and to the hours the Department of Public Parks posts there. Swimming in the…

Every residential building in Gary, including hotels and motels with fossil-fuel heat, must have an approved carbon monoxide alarm within 40 feet of each sleeping room, loud enough to…

Gary requires automatic fire sprinklers in hotels, hospitals, theaters, schools, public buildings, and multi-family buildings over three stories, but City Code § 22-77 expressly…

In the City of Gary, a building permit from the building commissioner is required before starting construction, alteration or repair of any building or structure, and all permit fees…

After a Gary building permit issues, the building commissioner must inspect the work for compliance with the code and permit terms, may charge reinspection fees when work is incomplete…

Before starting most plumbing work in Gary, an applicant must file a written application with the Building Commissioner describing the job site, then pay the city controller a…

In Gary, electrical work requires a permit from the Building Commissioner, and that permit can only go to a duly licensed electrical contractor or a homeowner working on their own…

Gary Municipal Code § 105-703 flatly bans applying lead paint to toys, furniture, or interior surfaces of any dwelling, roominghouse, or facility used by children, and bars selling or…

In the City of Gary, any person or entity that is being licensed or permitted, or that is renewing a license or permit, must submit a written plan as part of that application…

Dumping garbage, trash or other waste on any public or private property in Gary is unlawful unless the board of public works and safety has designated the site, under Municipal Code §…

The City of Gary runs its own garbage, rubbish and ash collection under Municipal Code § 34-59, publishing pickup dates by route rather than a single citywide day. City crews serve…

Anyone other than a city crew who wants to collect garbage, rubbish or waste material in Gary needs a scavenger license under Municipal Code § 34-65. Applicants apply to the city…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 34-53 bars storing garbage and rubbish containers on public property except for pickup, and only where the entire private lot is built out with…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 34-52(a) requires multifamily dwellings, complexes and apartment buildings of six or more units to maintain at least a 15-cubic-yard dumpster for…

A sexually oriented business in the City of Gary cannot open before 10:00 a.m. or stay open past 11:00 p.m., and it cannot operate at all without a sexually oriented business license…

A massage establishment in the City of Gary cannot operate at all without a license from the city controller, and it must stay closed on Sundays and outside the hours of 10:00 a.m. to…

Towing companies that contract with the City of Gary to remove vehicles at a police officer's order must carry $1,000,000 in liability insurance, mark trucks with four-inch owner…

In the City of Gary, Municipal Code § 32-70(b) makes it unlawful to operate as a junk dealer, buying, selling or dismantling scrap metal, rags, paper or old vehicles, without a city…

Gary's zoning code flatly excludes auto repair from the home occupations residents are allowed to run. Municipal Code § 123-1 defines home occupation to exclude any repair shop on the…

Gary's Municipal Code doesn't license tattoo or body-piercing shops directly; Sec. 123-217(b)(1)g instead lists tattoo and body piercing establishments, licensed by the state, as a…

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 Gary it is unlawful to throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant private lot, whether the person doing it owns the property or not. Gary Municipal Code § 34-29 backs…

Gary requires whoever owns, leases or occupies a building or lot to clear ice and snow from the abutting sidewalk, with deadlines that depend on when the snow falls and whether the…

Gary adopts Indiana's unsafe building law, IC 36-7-9, by reference as its own unsafe building code, administered by the Building Commissioner under Municipal Code § 105-724. Owners of…

In the City of Gary, a garage, basement or yard sale of a resident's own property, held at the principal residence of one of the participants, is exempt from the city's peddler and…

A street fair or ethnic festival in the City of Gary can let merchants sell without a peddler license only if it is sponsored by an existing local nonprofit or civic club that was not…

Parades, processions and open-air meetings on any Gary street require a written permit from the police chief, approved by the mayor, before anyone may march, ride or attend, under…

Private residents closing a Lake County road for a block party that will serve beer or liquor need only the special-event permit form filed at least seven days ahead under § 114.11…

Anyone staging a circus, carnival, festival, athletic contest, exhibition or outdoor beer garden on county-owned land in unincorporated Lake County, Indiana, or on private land, needs…

Productions that need to close a Gary street for filming must get Board of Public Works and Safety approval and pay a $250.00 per block, per day street closure fee under Gary Municipal…

Student filmmakers shooting in the City of Gary must apply through the Gary Office of Film & Television and pay a nonrefundable $50.00 application fee plus a $50.00 per location, per…

Filming in Gary requires a permit processed through the Gary Office of Film & Television and approved by the Board of Public Works and Safety, under Municipal Code § 36-14…

A mobile food vendor in the City of Gary qualifies as a transient merchant and must keep 1,500 feet from other transient-merchant businesses, stay 20 feet off any curb, sidewalk or…

Gary calls a temporary mobile food operation tied to a fair, carnival, circus, or public exhibition an "itinerant restaurant," and City Code § 24-70 makes it unlawful to run one…

Gary places the duty to keep a sidewalk in safe repair on the owner of the abutting building or lot, not the city, under Municipal Code § 36-4: it is unlawful to let a sidewalk become…

Gary makes it unlawful to encumber a street or sidewalk with buildings, fences, vehicles, horses or any other material that blocks free passage, under Municipal Code § 36-2, with an…

In the City of Gary, no one may plant a street tree in the parkway strip between the curb and sidewalk without a written permit from the board of park commissioners. New and…

The City of Gary's building commissioner runs a systematic, citywide housing code compliance program, and the building commissioner, health commissioner and fire chief are jointly…

Gary's Stormwater Management District, GSWMD, requires a permit before any land disturbance of 10,000 square feet or more, on top of zoning and building permit compliance. No building…

Sec. 123-252 defines Gary's regulatory flood elevation, the code's flood-protection benchmark, by pointing to specific FEMA studies: the 100-year flood profiles in the city's September…

Gary Chapter 113 requires anyone starting a land disturbing activity, clearing, grading, excavating, filling, or transporting earth, to file a plan with the executive director and get…

Sec. 123-304 prohibits any development in Gary's Special Flood Hazard Area that would raise flood heights or velocity: inside the mapped floodway no project may increase the elevation…

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…

Gary's Housing Code requires every rental dwelling unit to have a working kitchen sink, a private bathroom with a flush toilet and lavatory, and continuous hot water reaching at least…

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 Code 36-1-20 restricts the scope of local rental inspection and registration programs. Cities may operate registration programs but cannot impose unreasonable fees or inspect…

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 Gary, Municipal Code § 30-1(c) bars anyone from building or maintaining a campfire, barbecue stand or barbecue pit in a public park or playground, except in the areas…

Gary's sign code has no separate category for digital billboards, but its definition of a 'flashing sign', any illuminated sign whose light is not constant in intensity and color, or…

In unincorporated Lake County, the UDO's size and number limits on signs up to 32 sq ft are suspended from 60 days before an election until the 6th day after. Any allowed sign may also…

Unincorporated Lake County has no garage-sale-specific sign rule. A garage-sale sign is a temporary residential sign under UDO 154-15-030.F.3: one freestanding or wall sign up to 8 sq…

Gary's R1 and R1A One-Family Dwelling Districts set minimum yards under § 123-155(h) through (j): a front yard of at least 25 feet or 20 percent of lot depth, combined side yards of at…

In Gary's R1 and R1A One-Family Dwelling Districts, Municipal Code § 123-155(g) caps building coverage at 40 percent of the zoning lot. The same section's subsection (f) separately…

The Lake County UDO caps building height by district. R-1 residential allows 2.5 stories / 35 feet, while R-2 and R-3 allow 2 stories / 25 feet. Chimneys, steeples, and similar…

In the City of Gary, Sec. 123-155(a)(3) of the zoning code lists agricultural uses, including nurseries and truck gardens, as a permitted use only in R1 and R1A One-Family Dwelling…

Gary's zoning code permits electronic data storage facilities outright in M1 Limited Manufacturing Districts under Sec. 123-217(b)(3)b, grouped with distribution and logistics…

Gary's only codified light-trespass rule sits inside the planned industrial park standards for the M1 district: Sec. 123-217(l)(3)h requires all lighting for entrances, roads, and…

Unincorporated Lake County's UDO has no general residential dark-sky ordinance. The only codified downward-shielding standard applies to solar farms, which must shield operational…

Lake County caps continuous mechanical noise, including HVAC condensers and rooftop equipment, at the property line under its stationary-source rule. Residential and commercial…

Playing a car stereo, subwoofer, or other vehicle sound system loud enough to be heard, or felt, more than 20 feet away is a standalone violation in unincorporated Lake County. First…

Lake County makes it unlawful to sound a vehicle horn or other audible signaling device, including a triggered car alarm, anywhere in the unincorporated county except in a genuine…

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 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…

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 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…

Indiana Code 8-1-40 governs distributed generation interconnection statewide. While solar permitting remains primarily local, IC 36-7-2-8 limits municipal authority to unreasonably…

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…