Section 140IAC6-1-3. Change of name

   Procedures and requirements for name change.

  (A) Individual. (1) Any person may make application for a new title because their name has changed.

  (2) The application must be accompanied by a name change affidavit on the form designated by the commissioner and the old title must accompany the new title application.

  (B) Company. (1) Not all company name changes are treated as name changes by the bureau of motor vehicles. If the applicant a [sic.] change of ownership is not a change of name and does not qualify for any use (sales) tax exemption or the opportunity to transfer license plates and the corresponding excise tax. The following assignments are some that do not qualify as a name change:

(a) individual to existing corporation;

(b) existing corporation to individual;

(c) irrevocable trust to individual;

(d) corporation dissolution.

  (2) The following assignments are some that do qualify as a name change:

(a) individual to company;

(b) company to individual;

(c) individual to irrevocable trust;

(d) revocable trust to individual;

(e) individual to newly formed corporation for stark;

(f) corporation name change only;

(g) wholly owned subsidiary transfer from parent corporation;

(h) merger of two corporations.

  (3) The following procedure should be used:

(a) Prior to the actual title application written notice must be given to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Room 409, State Office Building, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204.

(b) This notice should give reasons, details, and circumstances necessitating the name change. Accompanying the notice, the applicant should forward on forms designated by the commissioner a completed affidavit of ownership and, if necessary, certificate of corporate minutes.

(c) The request for name change will be reviewed by the bureau of motor vehicles and, if approved, the applicant will be notified by letter of the approval.

(d) Based upon this letter of approval, the applicant may now have his application processed at any license branch. The application must be accompanied by the letter of approval from the bureau of motor vehicles.

(e) The title will not be processed and registration plates issued or transferred without letter of authorization from the bureau of motor vehicles.

  (C) One and the same person. (1) An individual who wishes to clarify his name as it appears on a title may use a one and the same person affidavit in the form designated by the commissioner. (Bureau of Motor Vehicles; (9-1-2-1)-2; filed Feb 13, 1978, 10:31 a.m.: Rules and Regs. 1979, p. 135; filed Sep 23, 1988, 8:30 a.m.: 12 IR 250; errata filed Aug 10, 1992, 3:00 p.m.: 15 IR 2595; readopted filed Jul 30, 2001, 10:29 a.m.: 24 IR 4230; readopted filed Nov 14, 2007, 1:31 p.m.: 20071212-IR-140070562RFA; readopted filed Nov 26, 2013, 11:22 a.m.: 20131225-IR-140130487RFA)