Knox County Traffic Court Records
A traffic court record treats a citation as a case. It is not just a piece of paper. Expect to see the UTT or cause number. The offense cited, the court, and hearing settings appear there too. So does a plea, the judgment, payments, and any failure-to-appear entry. Where the file lives depends on the court printed on your ticket. Knox Superior Court II and Bicknell City Court are the two likely homes.
Under the current Knox caseload plan, IF infractions and OV ordinance violations go to Superior II. Treat that as an allocation rule, not a guarantee of where every ticket starts. Bicknell runs its own city court under case prefix 42H01. The state directory lists no Vincennes City Court. No other municipal court exists in Knox County. If the ticket is unclear, ask the issuing office or the Clerk which court maintains the record. Need court-level numbers? The official Indiana trial statistics page reports statewide aggregates, not any single citation.
That distinction matters. County totals say nothing about the status of one Knox County traffic ticket.
Knox County ePay Search Fields
Indiana ePay Public Access handles the payment side of a Knox County traffic ticket. You can search by Ticket or UTT number. Driver's-license number and name plus date of birth also work. Look for the UTT in the upper-right area of the citation, leading zeroes and all. A name search requires first name, last name, and date of birth. A middle initial is optional.
| Portal | Field | Required or options | Official limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ePay | Ticket or UTT | Exact text with leading zeroes | Wait if the ticket is under ten business days old. |
| ePay | Driver's-license number | Alternative search key | Use MyCase or name/DOB if unavailable. |
| ePay | Name and DOB | First, last, DOB; middle optional | Do not publish a private DOB. |
| MyCase | Case or citation number | Court, status, and date filters | Best for the CCS, not payment checkout. |
Your ticket number may not match the cause number on file. Once Knox County assigns one, it looks like 42D02-YYMM-IF-######. Each part tells you something: the court is Superior II, the middle shows the filing month, IF marks it as an infraction, and the final digits give the case its sequence.
Looking Up a Traffic Ticket
Start with the paper ticket itself. It names the court handling your case and prints the date you must appear or respond, so those two facts drive your first move. Wondering whether you can simply pay? Try ePay. To read the public Chronological Case Summary, use MyCase instead. When neither system pulls up the citation, the right fallback turns on how fresh the ticket is and which Knox County court took it in.
- Copy the UTT exactly, including leading zeroes.
- Search ePay by UTT, then try its alternate permitted method.
- Search MyCase by citation or cause number and narrow to the named Knox court.
- For a new ticket, allow the official ten-business-day entry period.
- Call the court printed on the ticket, then the Knox County Clerk.
- If no court is printed, ask the issuing city or agency where it filed the matter.
Need a phone instead of a web form? Superior II sits at 620 Busseron Street in Vincennes. It is reachable at 812-882-4962. Bicknell City Court is at 119 East Second Street, Box 127, and answers at 812-735-4636. The Clerk's office, at 111 North 7th Street, takes calls at 812-885-2521.
Ten-Day Knox Ticket Delay
ePay tells drivers to hold off when a ticket is under ten business days old. The paperwork and data entry often trail what an officer handed out on the roadside. That lag shifts nothing. Your printed response date stands. The citation stays live, so guard the paper ticket. If the due date looms, call the court listed on it.
Still nothing after ten business days? Run another ePay key and check MyCase too. Some courts and some tickets simply are not eligible for online payment. Juvenile tickets for drivers under 18 can be paid through the system. ePay notes that copies cannot be purchased there. Need a public case copy? Ask the court handling the ticket or the Clerk.
The trial statistics help page explains a separate statewide system.
Statistics tools cannot fill the gap left by a newly issued or unmatched citation.
How to Find Your Traffic Court Date
Start with the citation itself. That printed ticket shows when a response or appearance is due. Once the case is entered, MyCase becomes the second public place to look for a Knox County court date. An older setting can linger in the record after a reset. Check the newest CCS entry and any later orders. Phone the court listed on the ticket last. A quick call confirms the live date, time, place, and setting type for the Knox County traffic docket.
| Date | The current hearing or response date, subject to later orders. |
|---|---|
| Time | The listed start time; confirm it with the court. |
| Court | Superior II, Bicknell City Court, or another court shown on the citation. |
| Location | The court building and room stated in the current setting. |
| Setting type | Appearance, hearing, trial, review, or another description entered by the court. |
| Identifier | The UTT or Knox cause number used to confirm the record. |
The statewide Trial Court Calendars application lists county 42 but currently shows no available Knox courts.
The image shows why the court office and CCS remain the local date-check path.
Knox County Traffic Offices
Knox County splits its traffic offices across two addresses. That catches some ticket holders off guard. Head to the historic courthouse on 7th Street. The Clerk's main office and its general record counter sit there. In-person payment of a traffic citation goes elsewhere, though. The Clerk page sends those payments to 620 Busseron Street, the Superior II location. Bicknell municipal tickets are different again. A city-court office of their own handles that docket.
Knox Superior Court II
620 Busseron Street
Vincennes, IN 47591
812-882-4962
County traffic counter route.
Bicknell City Court
119 East Second Street, Box 127
Bicknell, IN 47512
812-735-4636
Separately listed as 42H01.
Know which court you are walking into before you drive anywhere. Knox County's Court dates link points to the Clerk page, not a local live calendar.
Pay or Contest a Ticket
Paying a Knox County traffic ticket and fighting it are two different roads. You must pick one. Indiana ePay spells out the stakes. When you submit payment, you admit the violation or enter a nolo contendere plea. That payment carries the force of a court judgment. It also waives your right to a trial. If you believe the ticket is wrong, do not click pay. Follow the appearance or response instructions printed on the citation. Then contact the court named there to contest the case.
| Point | Pay through an authorized route | Contest through the court |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Admission or nolo contendere under ePay terms | Preserves the request for court process |
| First source | Eligibility and amount shown by ePay or court | Citation's response instructions and named court |
| Result | Payment has the effect of judgment | Court sets or confirms the next step |
| Local option | No universal Knox fine table was found | No Knox-wide contest deadline beyond the citation was found |
| Deferral | Generic ePay choices do not prove Knox eligibility | Ask the court about any available local option |
Pay or contest a ticket. Knox County publishes no defensive-driving or deferral program of its own. Do not rely on another county's program or deadline for a Knox County ticket.
Do not miss the response date. Failure to appear or pay can prompt court action and a notice to the BMV. Contact the court at once when a date has passed.
Knox County Missing Ticket Steps
Missed the ten-business-day window? Try UTT first, then the alternate ePay search, then MyCase. If none of those turns up the ticket, call the court directly. Be careful about assuming a city court, though. A citation written in Vincennes, Oaktown, Monroe City, or Bruceville does not belong to some invented municipal tribunal. The official directory lists only Bicknell City Court among Knox municipal courts.
For a town ticket with no cause number, the issuing agency can tell you where it routed the citation. Once a Knox court number exists, the Clerk can pinpoint who keeps the record. The Clerk can also explain how to get a copy. That chain keeps you from paying the wrong office or trusting a stale screen. A city name shows who wrote the ticket. The court field shows which tribunal actually holds the case.
Traffic Court Record vs Driving Record
Two custodians, two files. The court record is the citation case itself, covering the filed violation, the plea, each setting, the judgment, payment, and any failure-to-appear events. The Indiana BMV record is different: it tracks licensing status and the driving events reported to that agency. Asking for one will never hand you the other.
| Point | Traffic court record | BMV driving record |
|---|---|---|
| Custodian | Maintaining court and Clerk | Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles |
| Main content | Citation, court dates, plea, disposition, payment entries | License status and reported driving events |
| Lookup | ePay, MyCase, court office, Clerk | Official BMV services |
| Correction path | Ask the court about its case entry | Ask BMV about its agency record |
The BMV traffic violations page spells out what happens after a failure to appear or pay. The court itself must report the qualifying resolution to the BMV.
Knox County FTA Terms
Traffic dockets carry a handful of short codes. Read them in context so you can ask the court the right question. The latest order and disposition control the case, never a guess built on one code.
- UTT
- The ticket identifier used by ePay and printed on the citation.
- IF
- Indiana case-type code for an infraction.
- OV
- Case-type code for an ordinance violation.
- FTA
- Failure to appear for a required court response or setting.
- Disposition
- The court's recorded outcome for the charge or case.
The Indiana weighted-caseload page is captured in the assigned image below.
ICOR explains court workload. The latest order and disposition explain your individual Knox traffic case.
Copies and Fees
ePay tacks on transaction costs at checkout, and it posts no fixed amount. Knox publishes no fee schedule for a plain citation copy, a certified traffic record, a search, or an ordinary page either. So ask the maintaining court or the Clerk for the current charge before you pay. One more limit: ePay cannot sell copies for juvenile tickets.
| Item | Published amount or status | Where to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| ePay transaction cost | Added at checkout; fixed amount not captured | ePay before final submission |
| Plain traffic case copy | No Knox amount published | Maintaining court or Clerk |
| Certified traffic copy | No Knox amount published | Maintaining court or Clerk |
| Search or delivery charge | No Knox schedule located | Clerk before ordering |
When you call, give the court, the UTT or cause number, the document you want, whether it needs certification, and how you want it delivered. The Knox County court record process walks through how the Clerk handles the files behind a docket.
Knox County Traffic Caseload Context
Official ICOR data for 2024 reports 7,904 new cases across all Knox courts. Of those, 3,062 were civil-violation matters. That figure is aggregate court activity. It says nothing about the count or status of any one person's citation. Superior II handles infraction and ordinance work alongside misdemeanor, eviction, small-claim, and other assigned cases. The ICOR application offers county and court selectors on its public page.
Use ICOR to grasp the workload. To actually resolve an individual Knox County traffic ticket, rely on the citation, ePay, MyCase, and the court office.