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DUI law in Indiana
The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.
DUI law in Indiana concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.
The two legal questions
The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.
Driving privileges
The licence case
- Forum
- The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
- Clock
- Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event
- Deadline to request a hearing
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.Check the suspension notice or order and the licensing agency’s official instructions. Do not rely on the criminal court date.
- Suspension under the cited rule
- For chemical-test evidence of intoxication under this section: 180 days, or until BMV is notified that the court has disposed of the charges, whichever happens first.
- This section does not apply when the specified ignition-interlock order under § 9-30-6-8(d) is issued. A conviction can have separate license consequences.
- Hearing procedure under the cited rule
- File a written, verified petition alleging specific facts that contradict the probable cause affidavit, in the court where the DUI charges are pending or, if none have been filed, in a court of the county where the alleged offense occurred.
Criminal charge
The criminal case
- Forum
- A criminal court
- Clock
- Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here
- Alcohol-concentration threshold
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- First-offense penalty rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
- Lookback period
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Indiana
The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.
- Standard drivers
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Operating a commercial motor vehicle
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Under-21 rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Indiana in detail
8 further Indiana topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.