Bill Text: OH SB249 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To allow a veteran with a service-connected disability of less than 100 per cent to apply for disabled veteran license plates upon payment of one-half of the applicable fees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-08 - To Highways & Transportation [SB249 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-SB249-Introduced.html
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Senator Tavares
Cosponsors:
Senators Skindell, Cafaro
| To amend section 4503.41 of the Revised Code to allow | 1 |
| a veteran with a service-connected disability of | 2 |
| less than 100 per cent to apply for disabled | 3 |
| veteran license plates upon payment of one-half of | 4 |
| the applicable fees. | 5 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 4503.41 of the Revised Code be | 6 |
| amended to read as follows: | 7 |
| Sec. 4503.41. (A) Any disabled veteran who, because of a | 8 |
| service-connected disability, has been or is awarded funds for the | 9 |
| purchase of a motor vehicle under the "Disabled Veterans' and | 10 |
| Servicemen's Automobile Assistance Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1998, 38 | 11 |
| U.S.C. 1901, and amendments thereto, and any disabled veteran | 12 |
| having a service-connected disability rated at one hundred per | 13 |
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cent by the | 14 |
| affairs, may apply to the registrar for the registration of the | 15 |
| disabled veteran's personal motor vehicle without the payment of | 16 |
| any registration fee and service fee as required by sections | 17 |
| 4503.04, 4503.10, and 4503.102 of the Revised Code, and without | 18 |
| the payment of any local motor vehicle tax levied under Chapter | 19 |
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4504. of the Revised Code. | 20 |
| (B) Any disabled veteran having a service-connected | 21 |
| disability rated at less than one hundred per cent by the | 22 |
| department of veterans affairs who meets at least one of the | 23 |
| criteria identified in division (A)(1) of section 4503.44 of the | 24 |
| Revised Code may apply to the registrar for the registration of | 25 |
| the disabled veteran's personal motor vehicle and issuance of | 26 |
| license plates under this section upon payment of one-half of the | 27 |
| regular license fee as prescribed under section 4503.04 of the | 28 |
| Revised Code, one-half of any local motor vehicle license tax | 29 |
| levied under Chapter 4504. of the Revised Code, one-half of any | 30 |
| applicable service fee for issuance of license plates, and | 31 |
| one-half of any applicable additional fee prescribed by section | 32 |
| 4503.40 or 4503.42 of the Revised Code, with each fee or tax | 33 |
| rounded to the nearest full cent. | 34 |
| (C) The application for registration shall be accompanied by | 35 |
| such documentary evidence of disability as the registrar may | 36 |
| require by rule. | 37 |
| (D) Upon the receipt of an application for registration of a | 38 |
| motor vehicle under this section, and presentation of satisfactory | 39 |
| evidence of disability, the registrar shall issue to the applicant | 40 |
| a set of license plates, which shall be red, white, and blue in | 41 |
| color and shall, in addition to the letters and numbers ordinarily | 42 |
| inscribed thereon, be inscribed with the word "veteran" and | 43 |
| imprinted with the international wheelchair symbol. The license | 44 |
| plates issued under division (B) of this section shall be distinct | 45 |
| from license plates issued under division (A) of this section. | 46 |
| Section 2. That existing section 4503.41 of the Revised Code | 47 |
| is hereby repealed. | 48 |
