Construction and purposes
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case In Re Chapman (1992)
Most recently applied in Dzielak v. Whirlpool Corp. (June 2014)
Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.367, SEC.1
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 1. (a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its purposes and policies.
(b) The purposes and policies of this chapter are to:
(1) simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing deceptive and unconscionable consumer sales practices;
(2) protect consumers from suppliers who commit deceptive and unconscionable sales acts; and
(3) encourage the development of fair consumer sales practices.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.