Bill Text: IN HB1099 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Compression release engine brakes.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-02-17 - First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy [HB1099 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-HB1099-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 9-21.
Synopsis: Compression release engine brakes. Provides that a person
who drives a motor vehicle (vehicle) equipped with a compression
release engine brake (brake) may not use the vehicle's brake unless the
vehicle is equipped with a factory installed muffler or an equivalent
after market muffler, except in Porter County where brake operation is
prohibited unless there is a failure of the service brake system.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 6, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
February 10, 2011, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
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(b) A person who drives a motor vehicle equipped with compression release engine brakes on the Indiana toll road in a county having a population of more than one hundred forty-five thousand (145,000) but less than one hundred forty-eight thousand (148,000) may not use the motor vehicle's compression release engine brakes instead of the service brake system, except in the case of failure of the service brake system.
(c) Except as provided in subsection (b), a person who drives a motor vehicle equipped with compression release engine brakes may not use the motor vehicle's compression release engine brakes instead of the service brake system unless the motor vehicle is equipped with a factory installed muffler or an equivalent after
market muffler.