IC 13-11-2-245 “Vehicle”
Sec. 245. (a) “Vehicle”, for purposes of IC 13-17-5, refers to a vehicle required to be registered
with the bureau of motor vehicles and required to have brakes. The term does not include the
following:
(1) Mobile homes (house trailers).
(2) Trailers weighing not more than three thousand (3,000) pounds.
(3) A vehicle that is at least twenty-five (25) years old.
(4) Special machinery (as defined in IC 9-13-2-170.3).
Article 19. Motor Vehicle Equipment
Chapter 8. Mufflers and Noise Limits
IC 9-19-8-1 Application of chapter
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to every motor vehicle, except a vehicle that is at least twenty-five
(25) years old.
IC 9-19-10-2 Safety belt standards; use of belt
Sec. 2. Each occupant of a motor vehicle equipped with a safety belt that:
(1) meets the standards stated in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 208 (49
CFR 571.208); and
(2) is standard equipment installed by the manufacturer;
shall have a safety belt properly fastened about the occupant's body at all times when the
vehicle is in forward motion.
IC 9-19-6-21 Single-beam road-lighting equipment
Sec. 21. Head lamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light are permitted on motor
vehicles manufactured and sold before March 9, 1956, instead of the multiple-beam roadlighting
equipment specified in this chapter, if the single distribution of light meets the
following requirements:
(1) The head lamps must be aimed so that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the highintensity
part of the light will:
(A) at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet ahead, project higher than a level of five (5) inches
below the level of the center of the lamp from which light comes; and
(B) at a distance of seventy-five (75) feet ahead, project higher than forty-two (42) inches above
the level on which the vehicle stands.
(2) The intensity must be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least two
hundred (200) feet.

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