Indiana Code
Ind. Code § 9-22-3-18 (2026)
Vehicles designated as junk or similar designation
✓ current as of May 2026
Sec. 18. A vehicle that has been designated "JUNK", "DISMANTLED", "SCRAP", "DESTROYED", or any similar designation in another state or jurisdiction shall not be titled in Indiana.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-1-3.6-9(c) part.]
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.125-2012, SEC.138.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2019–2021 · leading case: Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehs. v. Majestic Auto Body, 128 N.E.3d 466 (Ind. Ct. App. 2019).
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehs. v. Majestic Auto Body, 128 N.E.3d 466 (Ind. Ct. App. 2019). “The State argues that to prevent Hoosiers from finding themselves in Barney Fife's shoes, the General Assembly enacted Ind. Code § 9-22-3-18 , and that the aim of the statute is to ensure Indiana citizens are not duped into buying vehicles that have been declared as junk by…”
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehs. v. Gregory D. Schneider (Ind. Ct. App. 2019). “However, under the plain and unambiguous terms of Indiana Code 9-22-3-18, 5 In both Majestic and this case, the purchasers availed themselves of the statutory procedure for having the police inspect their vehicles and the vehicles were declared roadworthy.”
Improta v. White, 2021 IL App (1st) 201140 (Ill. App. Ct. 2021). “” Ind. Code Ann. § 9-22-3-18 (West 2018). The court of appeals found that, despite Texas’s issuance of salvage titles, “under the plain and unambiguous terms of Indiana Code section 9-22-3-18, [the] vehicles cannot be titled in Indiana since Texas had designated them as junk…”
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