Sec. 10. (a) If a certificate of salvage title is lost, mutilated, or destroyed or becomes illegible, the person that owns the vehicle or the legal representative or legal successor in interest of the person that owns the vehicle for which the certificate of salvage title was issued, as shown by the records of the bureau, shall apply for a duplicate certificate of salvage title.
(b) A person described in subsection (a) may obtain a duplicate certificate of salvage title when the person furnishes information concerning the loss, mutilation, destruction, or illegibility satisfactory to the bureau and pays a salvage title fee of four dollars ($4). The fee shall be deposited in the motor vehicle highway account.
(c) Upon the issuance of a duplicate certificate of salvage title, the most recent certificate of salvage title issued is considered void by the bureau.
(d) A certificate of salvage title issued under this section must have prominently recorded on the title the words "DUPLICATE SALVAGE TITLE".
(e) If the lost, mutilated, destroyed, or illegible certificate of salvage title contained the notation "FLOOD DAMAGED", the duplicate certificate of salvage title must have prominently recorded on the title the words "FLOOD DAMAGED".
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-1-3.6-3; Pre-2016 Revision Citation: subsection (b) formerly 9-29-7-2.3(a).]
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.59-1998, SEC.8; P.L.125-2012, SEC.131; P.L.198-2016, SEC.394; P.L.27-2018, SEC.15.
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