| Chapter 224 |
| 2018 -- S 2033 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 07/02/2018 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES--DISABLED VETERANS |
| Introduced By: Senators Felag, Gallo, Ciccone, Lynch Prata, and Conley |
| Date Introduced: January 11, 2018 |
| 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 suitable documentation from the U.S. Department |
| of Veterans' Affairs to establish that the veteran: |
| (1) Has have a combined service connected disability rating of one hundred percent |
| (100%); or |
| (2) Is considered "individually unemployable" due to their his or her service-connected |
| disability, 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 on January 1, 2019. |
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