PRINTER'S NO. 297
No. 294 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, LEMMOND, WAUGH, BELAN, WAGNER,
ARMSTRONG, CONTI, COSTA, DENT, GERLACH, KASUNIC, LAVALLE,
MELLOW, MUSTO, O'PAKE, RHOADES, SALVATORE, THOMPSON AND
BOSCOLA, FEBRUARY 2, 1999
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 2, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for veteran plates and placard.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 1342(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes, amended December 21, 1998 (P.L. ,
7 No.151), is amended to read:
8 § 1342. Veteran plates and placard.
9 (a) Severely disabled veteran plate.--On the application of
10 a veteran whose service-connected disability is certified at
11 [100%] 75% or greater by the service unit of the armed forces in
12 which the veteran served or by the United States Veterans'
13 Administration or who has a service-connected disability of the
14 type enumerated in section 1338 (relating to person with
15 disability plate and placard), the department shall issue a
16 special registration plate designating the vehicle as belonging
17 to a severely disabled veteran. The registration plate shall
1 have a white background, shall have blue numbers or letters as
2 the department may determine, shall have the words, ["]disabled
3 veteran,["] in at least ten-point bold type, inscribed in red at
4 the bottom of the plate[,] and shall include the international
5 symbol for access for persons with disabilities. Only one
6 special registration plate shall be issued to a veteran under
7 this section. It may be used only on a passenger car or truck
8 with a registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds. In
9 the case of a motorcycle, the department shall issue a decal
10 containing the international symbol for access for persons with
11 disabilities and the words "disabled veteran" for display on the
12 registration plate.
13 * * *
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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