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Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles — maps, releases, the FY2019 Annual Report, the county-numbers list; State Board of Accounts review reports behind them
What it is: a state agency's publications are the primary record of its own acts, and the BMV leg is built on them: the October 2017 branch-locations map (this county's seats: Mishawaka and South Bend); the releases of 27 and 31 October 2014 (the South Bend branch at 623 South St. Joseph Street); the FY2019 Annual Report (the Mishawaka branch and its Connect Center, the state's second); the current branch record read in November 2026 (Mishawaka, 2544 Miracle Lane, active; the South Bend branch and kiosk at 1139 East Ireland Road; Walkerton, 302 Roosevelt Road); and the Bureau's published county-numbers list, which gives St. Joseph County its plate number — 71, in the alphabetical run Adams 1 to Whitley 92 — the fact the county's whole plate course hangs on. The State Board of Accounts' review reports (FY2007, FY2009) carry the commission's composition and the commissioner terms the state frame needs (Silverman, 1 July 2005 – 15 October 2006; Stiver from 16 October 2006).
Its standing, from this build's experience: on seats, numbers and its own announcements, the Bureau's word is the record — the boundary verdict of the BMV file (no branch ever seated inside the CDP) rests on the Bureau's lists across the whole span reached, not on the absence of a rumor. The Bureau also illustrates the apparatus rule for images: the one photograph located with its rights basis stated is the FY2019 Annual Report's picture of the Mishawaka Connect Center, credited there to the South Bend Tribune — the Tribune's rights, not reproduced, routed to the photo hunt.
Where it fails: two silences, both printed. The Bureau's public branch listings name no branch manager for Mishawaka or South Bend, and the leg prints that as a named gap (GAP-BMV-6) rather than fill it from lesser directories. And the Bureau's exact statutory creation date could not be settled from an official source in this build — the 1945 date circulates in commercial profiles only — so no creation date prints as fact; it belongs to the Indiana leg's record, where the Bureau's institutional history will be told whole.
Sources:
- Indiana BMV (in.gov): branch-locations map (Oct 2017); releases of Oct 2014, Jan 2019 and May 2025; FY2019 Annual Report; "Indiana County Numbers and County Names." Indiana State Board of Accounts, BMV review reports FY2007 and FY2009.