PRINTER'S NO. 746
No. 708 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY MASLAND, THOMAS, ARMSTRONG, EGOLF, SCHULER, PESCI,
READSHAW, BAKER, LAUGHLIN, PIPPY, M. COHEN, DeWEESE, HARHAI,
HORSEY, MAHER, McCALL, MICHLOVIC, MICOZZIE, ORIE, RAMOS,
ROBERTS, SAINATO, SAYLOR, SEMMEL, SERAFINI, SEYFERT,
B. SMITH, STABACK, E. Z. TAYLOR, TRELLO, VAN HORNE, WALKO AND
WILT, MARCH 2, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 2, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for disabled veteran plates.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 1342(c) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes, amended December 21, 1998 (P.L.1126,
7 No.151), is amended to read:
8 § 1342. Veteran plates and placard.
9 * * *
10 (c) Disabled veteran plates.--On the application of any
11 veteran having a disability certified by the service unit of the
12 armed forces in which the veteran served or by the United States
13 Veterans' Administration as service-connected, the department
14 shall issue a special registration plate designating the vehicle
15 as belonging to a disabled veteran. The registration plate shall
16 have a white background, shall have numbers or letters as the
1 department may determine and shall have the words "disabled
2 veteran" in at least ten-point bold type inscribed at the bottom
3 of the plate. [Only one] A special registration plate [shall be]
4 issued to a veteran under this section[. It] may be used only on
5 a passenger car or truck with a registered gross weight of not
6 more than 9,000 pounds.
7 * * *
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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