§ 9-25-6-6 — Payment of judgment in installments; allowing driving privileges and registration to judgment debtor on consent of judgment creditor

Indiana § 9-25-6-6

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 9: MOTOR VEHICLES
• Art. 25: FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Ch. 6: Suspension of Driving Privileges and Vehicle

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(a) The bureau may not suspend the driving
privileges of a person and shall reinstate the driving privileges of a
person following nonpayment of a judgment whenever a judgment
debtor does the following:
(1) Gives proof that the judgment debtor will maintain financial
responsibility in the future for at least three (3) years following
reinstatement.
(2) Obtains an order from the trial court in which the judgment
was rendered permitting the payment of the judgment in
installments, unless the payment of an installment is in default.
(b) A judgment debtor, upon five (5) days notice to the judgment
creditor, may apply to the trial court in which the judgment was
obtained for the privilege of paying the judgment in installments. The
court, in the court's discretion and without prejudice to other legal
remedies the judgment creditor may have, may order the payment of
the judgment in installments, fixing the amounts and times of payment
of the installments.
(c) Except as provided in subsection (d), if the judgment debtor fails
to pay an installment as permitted by the order of the court, upon notice
of the default the bureau shall suspend the driving privileges of the
judgment debtor. The bureau may not take action for failure to make
installment payments for judgments entered at least seven (7) years
after the date of the accident. Suspended driving privileges may not be
reinstated until evidence of proof of future financial responsibility is
presented.
(d) Notwithstanding a default by the judgment debtor in the
payment of a judgment or the payment of an installment under
subsection (b), whenever the judgment creditor consents in writing, in
the form the bureau prescribes, that the judgment debtor be allowed
driving privileges and registration, the driving privileges and
registration may be allowed by the bureau at the bureau's discretion.
The driving privileges and registration may be renewed until the
consent is revoked in writing if the judgment debtor furnishes proof
under this article that the judgment debtor will maintain financial
responsibility in the future for at least three (3) years following
reinstatement.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-2-1-8.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.125-2012, SEC.262.