Bureau of Motor Vehicle locations across the state are starting to reopen to more in-person customers this week, with a goal to open all branches by Memorial Day. (Lauren Chapman/IPB News)
Bureau of Motor Vehicle locations across the state are starting to reopen to more in-person customers this week, with a goal to open all branches by Memorial Day.
The BMV has only been open during the pandemic for truckers who needed their commercial driver’s licenses.
Fifty-five BMV branches are open statewide for in-person business, with the goal of having one open branch within an hour of every Hoosier.
Commissioner Peter Lacy says visits are by appointment only.
“We are going to have a 30-minute barrier between each customer so we can make sure that we wipe down all hard surfaces between customers coming into our branch,” Lacy says.
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Lacy still urges people to conduct business online when they can – and reminds them the governor extended expiration dates through May 22.
“There is no need to feel pressure either on a driver’s license or on an expiration of a license plate to go into the BMV right now,” Lacy says.
Lacy says those expiration dates might be extended again in the coming weeks.
There are nine transactions that must happen in-person:
- Commercial driver’s license
- New driver’s license/learner’s permit or identification card
- Amend a current driver’s license/learner’s permit or identification card
- Replacement credential/learner’s permit or identification card
- Title transfer
- Update to an existing title
- New registration
- Disability placard
The BMV is not offering driving skills exams as branches reopen.
Contact Brandon at bsmith@ipbs.org or follow him on Twitter at @brandonjsmith5.
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