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July 30, 2024

32-31-9-9 Change of tenant’s locks; outside perpetrators

Sec. 9. (a) This section applies if a perpetrator who is restrained from contact with the tenant referred to in subsection (b) under an order referred to in section 7(2)(A) or 7(2)(B) of this chapter is not a tenant of the same dwelling unit as the tenant referred to in subsection (b).

(b) A landlord shall change the locks of a tenant’s dwelling unit upon the written request of the tenant not later than forty-eight (48) hours after the tenant gives the landlord a copy of a court order referred to in section 7(2) of this chapter, and shall give a key to the new locks to the tenant.