PRINTER'S NO. 2143
No. 1721 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY MASLAND, JULY 28, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JULY 28, 1997
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 is amended to read:
7 § 1342. Veteran plates and placard.
8 * * *
9 (c) Disabled veteran plates.--On the application of any
10 veteran having a disability certified by the service unit of the
11 armed forces in which the veteran served or by the United States
12 Veterans' Administration as service-connected, the department
13 shall issue a special registration plate designating the vehicle
14 as belonging to a disabled veteran. The registration plate shall
15 have a white background, shall have numbers or letters as the
16 department may determine and shall have the words "disabled
17 veteran" in at least ten-point bold type inscribed at the bottom
1 of the plate. [Only one] A special registration plate [shall be]
2 issued to a veteran under this section[. It] may be used only on
3 [one] a passenger vehicle or [one] other vehicle with a
4 registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.
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6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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