The university plans to study the safety of electric skateboards and scooters in response to a rash of serious injuries on campus.

Most of the nearly 300 new laws crafted by the General Assembly this year take effect Monday.

The city says the regulations are an attempt to distribute scooters more evenly throughout the city, especially in areas where residents have low mobility options.

The measure largely inserts a definition of electric scooter into state law and ensures they're not classified as motor vehicles.

A state lawmaker says the owners of electric scooter companies should be liable for damage the scooters cause to people's property.

Parking operations stores the scooters and notifies the company they belong to, who must then pay the fine for the scooter's release.

Companies Bird and Lime brought their scooter share service back to the city after city councilors created regulations for the new business model.

Scooter share companies Bird and Lime can start business again on Sept. 4. Both are expected to bring significantly more scooters to the street than they did earlier this summer.

Most of the council's debate, which lasted over an hour, focused on who would enforce the new rules and regulations.

Lime, one of two companies to deploy a fleet of dockless scooters in Indianapolis this summer, has stopped operations here after the city sent a cease-and-desist order.