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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES | |
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Introduced By: Senators Lawson, LaMountain, Gallo, Lauria, and Britto | |
Date Introduced: March 21, 2025 | |
Referred To: Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 31-6-8 of the General Laws in Chapter 31-6 entitled "Registration |
2 | Fees" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 31-6-8. Disabled veterans. |
4 | (a) Any veteran who has been honorably discharged from the service of the armed forces |
5 | or the Merchant Marine of the United States in any of the wars or campaigns in which the United |
6 | States has been engaged and who, while engaged in these wars or campaigns or as a result of |
7 | engagement in these wars or campaigns, by reason of amputation, has lost one or both of the |
8 | veteran’s arms, hands, feet, or legs, or who, by reason of other permanent injury, has lost the use |
9 | of one or both of the veteran’s arms, hands, feet, or legs, or to whom has been granted a motor |
10 | vehicle under chapter 870-2D, United States Public Laws 663, enacted 1946, 79th Congress, or has |
11 | suitable documentation from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to establish that the veteran: |
12 | (1) Has a combined service connected disability rating of one hundred percent (100%); or |
13 | (2) Is seventy-five (75) years of age or older with a combined disability rating of fifty |
14 | percent (50%); or |
15 | (3) Is considered “individually unemployable” due to the veteran’s service-connected |
16 | disability, shall be exempt from the payment of any fee for the annual registration of and a license |
17 | to operate that motor vehicle. |
18 | (b) The administrator for the division of motor vehicles shall issue to an eligible veteran |
19 | for use on an automobile, or on a commercial vehicle having a gross weight of twelve thousand |
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1 | pounds (12,000 lbs.) or less, registration plates designated “Disabled Veteran.” Upon the death of |
2 | the holder of “Disabled Veteran” plates, the plates may be transferred to the veteran’s surviving |
3 | spouse for the spouse’s lifetime or until the spouse remarries. Only one set of “Disabled Veteran” |
4 | plates shall be issued to an eligible veteran and only after certification of eligibility from the |
5 | Veterans’ Administration or other satisfactory documentation of eligibility is presented. |
6 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES | |
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1 | This act would include a veteran who is seventy-five (75) years of age or older with a |
2 | combined disability rating of fifty percent (50%), as eligible for disabled veterans license plates. |
3 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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