2015 -- H 5089

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION FEES - DISABLED

VETERANS

     Introduced By: Representatives Giarrusso, Malik, Abney, McLaughlin, and Lancia

     Date Introduced: January 14, 2015

     Referred To: House Finance

     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 who has been determined by the Veterans' Administration to have a service

connected disability of one hundred percent (100%) the status of individual unemployability,

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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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION FEES - DISABLED

VETERANS

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     This act would amend the definition of disabled veteran to conform to the current

terminology of the Veterans' Administration.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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