PRINTER'S NO. 539

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No. 512 Session of 2003

        INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, COSTA, TOMLINSON, TARTAGLIONE, KASUNIC,
           RAFFERTY, SCHWARTZ, DENT, O'PAKE, STACK, THOMPSON, WAGNER,
           ORIE, LOGAN, WONDERLING, MUSTO, BOSCOLA, WOZNIAK AND WAUGH,
           MARCH 17, 2003

        REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 17, 2003

                                     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 is amended to read:
     7  § 1342.  Veteran plates and placard.
     8     (a)  Severely disabled veteran plate.--On the application of
     9  a veteran whose service-connected disability is certified at
    10  [100%] 75% or greater by the service unit of the armed forces in
    11  which the veteran served or by the United States Veterans'
    12  Administration or who has a service-connected disability of the
    13  type enumerated in section 1338 (relating to person with
    14  disability plate and placard), the department shall issue a
    15  special registration plate designating the vehicle as belonging
    16  to a severely disabled veteran. The registration plate shall
    17  have a white background, shall have blue numbers or letters as

     1  the department may determine, shall have the words, ["]disabled
     2  veteran,["] in at least ten-point bold type, inscribed in red at
     3  the bottom of the plate[,] and shall include the international
     4  symbol for access for persons with disabilities. Only one
     5  special registration plate shall be issued to a veteran under
     6  this section. It may be used only on a passenger car or truck
     7  with a registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds. In
     8  the case of a motorcycle, the department shall issue a decal
     9  containing the international symbol for access for persons with
    10  disabilities and the words "disabled veteran" for display on the
    11  registration plate.
    12     * * *
    13     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.












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