PRINTER'S NO. 1014
No. 906 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY BUNT, HERSHEY, CORRIGAN, PHILLIPS, RAMOS, YEWCIC,
BELARDI, B. SMITH, COY, ARGALL, WALKO, OLASZ, DERMODY,
PETTIT, ROONEY, HERMAN, STABACK, LYNCH, BAKER, DeLUCA, BEBKO-
JONES, KENNEY, L. I. COHEN, SANTONI, C. WILLIAMS, FAIRCHILD,
EGOLF, FARGO, J. TAYLOR, TRELLO, LEDERER, SHANER, FICHTER,
ITKIN, PLATTS, MICOZZIE, GANNON, TRAVAGLIO, MILLER, HORSEY,
E. Z. TAYLOR, COLAFELLA, MELIO, DALEY, GLADECK, SERAFINI,
ROBERTS, SEYFERT, BROWNE, YOUNGBLOOD, McCALL AND BOSCOLA,
MARCH 13, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 13, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for prisoner of war registration
3 plates.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1342(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1342. Veteran plates and placard.
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10 (d) Prisoner of war plate.--On the application of an ex-
11 prisoner of war whose imprisonment while in the service of the
12 armed forces of the United States is certified by the
13 appropriate branch of the armed forces, the department shall
14 issue a special registration plate designating the vehicle as
15 belonging to an ex-prisoner of war. The registration plate shall
1 contain the letters "POW" and such other numbers or letters as
2 the department may determine and shall have the words "prisoner
3 of war" in at least ten-point bold type inscribed at the bottom
4 of the plate. The special registration plate may be used only on
5 one passenger vehicle or one other vehicle with a registered
6 gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds. The surviving spouse
7 of a person who has been issued this plate may continue to use
8 it and to be subject to the privileges extended under section
9 1901(c) (relating to exemption of entities and vehicles from
10 fees) unless the surviving spouse remarries, in which case he or
11 she shall surrender the plate to the department within ten days
12 after his or her marital status changes legally.
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14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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