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Indiana license points

6 points

What the rule says happens: you must take the knowledge exam to renew your driver’s license. Applies to: at least 21 years of age

If you are at least 21 years of age and have six or more active points on your driving record, you must take the knowledge exam to renew your driver’s license.

Points for each violation

Violation, in Indiana’s wordingPoints
1 – 15 miles per hour over the speed limit2
16 – 25 miles per hour over the speed limit4
26+ miles per hour over the speed limit6
Disregarding a stop sign or yield sign4
Following another vehicle too closely6
Violation for hand-held device4
Unsafe lane movement4
Failure to yield to an emergency vehicle6
Driving while suspended8
Speed contest on road8
Failure to use headlights2

These are the lines we have. Indiana’s full schedule is at the source links and may list more.

Sources for these lines, word for word

1 – 15 miles per hour over the speed limit 2 points

16 – 25 miles per hour over the speed limit 4 points

26+ miles per hour over the speed limit 6 points

Disregarding a stop sign or yield sign 4 points

Following another vehicle too closely 6 points

Violation for hand-held device 4 points

Unsafe lane movement 4 points

Failure to yield to an emergency vehicle 6 points

Driving while suspended 8 points

Speed contest on road 8 points

Failure to use headlights 2 points

When points lead to a suspension or other action

PointsWithinThe rule’s wordingWhat happensApplies to
6no period givensee the ruleyou must take the knowledge exam to renew your driver’s licenseat least 21 years of age

Whether a rule means that many points or more, or more than that many, is in the rule’s own words below.

The rules, word for word

If you are at least 21 years of age and have six or more active points on your driving record, you must take the knowledge exam to renew your driver’s license.

How long points last

Points stay active on an individual’s driving record for two years from the conviction date.

Which date counts

What it means for a particular case is for the agency to say.

Points stay active on an individual’s driving record for two years from the conviction date.

Taking points off: courses and clean driving

The BMV will apply a 4 point credit to an Indiana Official Driver Record for successful completion of a BMV-approved DSP. The credit may only be applied once every three years.

However, if an additional course is completed, the time period of the credit will be extended for three years from the new course completion date.

Each driver is allowed one four-point credit during a three-year period.

Completion of the Driver Safety Program will not remove a citation from your driver history.

The point system itself

Indiana law assesses a point value for each conviction of moving violations. The point value relates to the seriousness of the offense in posing a risk to traffic safety.

More from Indiana’s rules

Point values for offenses range from zero to ten, depending on the violation.

The Point Study Committee assesses a point value for traffic violations. The point value relates to the severity and history of the violation or accident.

State law provides that persons convicted of two or more traffic offenses within a 12-month period may be required to complete a BMV-approved Driver Safety Program (DSP).

Individuals under 21 years of age are required to complete a DSP if, they are convicted of two or more traffic offenses. When the BMV is notified of these convictions, a DSP course must be completed within 90 days or driving privileges will be suspended.

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What this adds up, and what it can’t say
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The checker has only the violations in the table above.

Sources for Indiana

Official pages we asked for and don’t quote

What a plain request to each page got on November 12, 2026. The page names are ours. Nothing is said about what a page holds beyond the counts shown, and a count says nothing about what the page means.
Official pageWhat the request got
140 IAC 1-4.5, the BMV point system rule and point value table (the page the BMV links to)The answer had no text our reader could use.
the BMV suspension guideThe page answered with text. A search of that text, as our reader extracted it, for the exact string “point system” found it 0 times, for “demerit” found it 0 times, for “points” found it 2 times. We quote nothing from this page.

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