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2017 Indiana Code
TITLE 9. Motor Vehicles
ARTICLE 19. MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER 3. Brakes
9-19-3-3. Trailers and semitrailers of gross weight of 3,000 pounds or more
Universal Citation: IN Code § 9-19-3-3 (2017)
IC 9-19-3-3 Trailers and semitrailers of gross weight of 3,000 pounds or more
Sec. 3. Subject to section 4 of this chapter, a trailer or semitrailer of a gross weight of at least three thousand (3,000) pounds, when operated upon a highway, must be equipped with brakes adequate to control the movement of and to stop and to hold the vehicle. The brakes must be designed so that the driver of the towing motor vehicle can apply the brakes from the cab, and must be designed and connected so that the brakes will be automatically applied in an accidental breakaway of the towed vehicle.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-8-6-32(3).]
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.221-2014, SEC.26.
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