THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, RAFFERTY, COSTA, HUGHES, BROWNE, TARTAGLIONE, FONTANA, ERICKSON, MENSCH, LEACH, SCHWANK, FOLMER, SOLOBAY, BREWSTER AND BRUBAKER, SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, SEPTEMBER 6, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for

veteran plates and placard.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 1342(a), (c) and (d) of Title 75 of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:

§ 1342.  Veteran plates and placard.

(a)  Severely disabled veteran plate.--On the application of

a veteran whose service-connected disability is certified at

100% by the service unit of the armed forces in which the

veteran served or by the United States Veterans' Administration

or who has a service-connected disability of the type enumerated

in section 1338 (relating to person with disability plate and

placard), the department shall issue a special registration

plate designating the vehicle as belonging to a severely

disabled veteran. The registration plate shall have a white

background, shall have blue numbers or letters as the department

may determine, shall have the words "disabled veteran" in at

least ten-point bold type inscribed in red at the bottom of the

plate and shall include the international symbol for access for

persons with disabilities. [Only one] A special registration

plate [shall be] issued to a veteran under this section[. It]

may be used only on a passenger car or truck with a registered

gross weight of not more than 10,000 pounds. In the case of a

motorcycle, the department shall issue a decal containing the

international symbol for access for persons with disabilities

and the words "disabled veteran" for display on the registration

plate.

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(c)  Disabled veteran plates.--On the application of any

veteran having a disability certified by the service unit of the

armed forces in which the veteran served or by the United States

Veterans' Administration as service-connected, the department

shall issue a special registration plate designating the vehicle

as belonging to a disabled veteran. The registration plate shall

have a white background, shall have numbers or letters as the

department may determine and shall have the words "disabled

veteran" in at least ten-point bold type inscribed at the bottom

of the plate. [Only one] A special registration plate [shall be] 

issued to a veteran under this section[. It] may be used only on

a passenger car or truck with a registered gross weight of not

more than 10,000 pounds.

(d)  Prisoner of war plate.--On the application of an ex-

prisoner of war whose imprisonment while in the service of the

armed forces of the United States is certified by the

appropriate branch of the armed forces, the department shall

issue a special registration plate designating the vehicle as

belonging to an ex-prisoner of war. The registration plate shall

contain the letters "POW" and such other numbers or letters as

the department may determine and shall have the words "prisoner

of war" in at least ten-point bold type inscribed at the bottom

of the plate. [Only one] A special registration plate [shall be]

issued to an ex-prisoner of war under this subsection[. The

special registration plate] may be used only on a passenger car

or truck with a registered gross weight of not more than 10,000

pounds.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.