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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