Chapter 537
2004 -- S 2001
Enacted 07/09/04
A N A C T
RELATING
TO MOTOR VEHICLES - REGISTRATION FEES - DISABLED VETERANS
Introduced
By: Senator Daniel J. Issa
Date
Introduced: December 16, 2003
It
is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Section 31-6-8 of the General Laws in Chapter 31-6 entitled
"Registration
Fees"
is hereby amended to read as follows:
31-6-8.
Disabled veterans. -- (a) Any veteran who has been honorably discharged
from
the
service of the armed forces or the merchant marine of the United States in any
of the wars or
campaigns
in which the United States has been engaged and who, while engaged in these
wars or
campaigns
or as a result of engagement in these wars or campaigns, by reason of
amputation, has
lost
one or both of his or her arms, hands, feet, or legs, or who, by reason of
other permanent
injury,
has lost the use of one or both of his or her arms, hands, feet, or legs, or to
whom has been
granted
a motor vehicle under chapter 870-2D, United States Public Laws 663, enacted
1946,
79th
Congress, or has been determined by the Veterans’ Administration to have a
service
connected
disability of one hundred percent (100%) shall be forever exempt from the payment of
any
fee for the annual registration of and a license to operate that motor vehicle.
(b) The administrator for the division of motor vehicles shall issue to an
eligible veteran
for
use on an automobile, or on a commercial vehicle having a gross weight of six
thousand three
hundred
pounds (6,300 lbs.) or less, registration plates designated "Disabled
Veteran". Upon the
death
of the holder of "Disabled Veteran" plates, the plates may be
transferred to his or her
surviving
spouse for his or her lifetime or until he or she remarries. Only one set of
"Disabled
Veteran"
plates shall be issued to an eligible veteran and only after certification of
eligibility from
the
Veterans' Administration or other satisfactory documentation of eligibility is
presented.
SECTION
2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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