§ 9-20-6-5 — Public utility facilities; transportation of materials reasonably necessary to restore facility; reporting requirements; fees

Indiana § 9-20-6-5

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 9: MOTOR VEHICLES
• Art. 20: SIZE AND WEIGHT REGULATION
• Ch. 6: Special and Emergency Permits

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(a) If a breakdown or threatened breakdown of
electric, gas, water, or telephone public utility facilities occurs in
Indiana, the public utility whose services to the public are or may be
affected may in the emergency, without securing a permit, transport
over highways or streets heavy vehicles and loads or other objects not
conforming to this article if it is reasonably necessary to do so to
restore utility service at the earliest practicable time or to prevent the
interruption of utility service. The public utility shall, not later than the
second succeeding day that is not a Sunday or holiday, report the fact
of the transportation to the public authority from whom a permit would
otherwise have been required.
(b) The public utility shall pay to the public authority an amount
equal to the fee that would have been due for a permit under this
article. The making of the report and payment of the fee satisfies all
requirements of this chapter concerning the securing of a permit for the
trip required by the emergency.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-8-1-16(d) part.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.198-2016, SEC.343.