§ 32-31-9-10 — Change of lock requirements if a court issues a protection or restraining order

Indiana § 32-31-9-10

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 32: PROPERTY
• Art. 31: LANDLORD-TENANT RELATIONS
• Ch. 9: Rights of Tenants Who Are Victims of Certain Crimes

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(a) This section applies if the perpetrator
who is restrained from contact with the tenant referred to in subsection
(b) under an order referred to in section 7(2)(A) or 7(2)(B) of this
chapter is a tenant of the same dwelling unit as the tenant referred to in
subsection (b).
(b) A landlord shall change the locks of a tenant's dwelling unit,
upon the written request of the tenant, not later than twenty-four (24)
hours after the tenant provides the landlord with a copy of a court order
referred to in section 7(2) of this chapter restraining the perpetrator
referred to in subsection (a) from contact with the tenant, and shall give
a key to the new locks to the tenant.
(c) Unless the court order provided to the landlord under subsection
(b) allows the perpetrator to return to the dwelling unit to retrieve the
perpetrator's personal property, a landlord to whom subsection (b)
applies may not by any act provide the perpetrator access to the
dwelling unit.
(d) A landlord to whom subsection (b) applies is immune from civil
liability for:
(1) excluding the perpetrator from the dwelling unit under a court
order; or
(2) loss of use of or damage to personal property while the
personal property is present in the dwelling unit.
(e) A perpetrator who has been excluded from a dwelling unit under
this section remains liable under the lease with all other tenants of the
dwelling unit for rent or damages to the dwelling unit as provided in
the lease.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.22-2007, SEC.2.