Bill Text: MI HB5840 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; disabled veteran registration plates; allow surviving spouse of totally disabled veteran to use disabled veteran registration plate. Amends sec. 803f of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.803f).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-09-13 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/08/2016 [HB5840 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5840-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5840

 

 

September 8, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Potvin, Barrett, Kelly, Callton, Canfield and McBroom and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 803f (MCL 257.803f), as amended by 1998 PA 68.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 803f. (1) A person who is a totally disabled veteran with

 

an honorable discharge from the armed services may make an

 

application to the secretary of state if he or she owns a private

 

passenger motor vehicle, and the secretary of state may issue a

 

special registration plate which shall be inscribed with special

 

identification numbers preceded by the letters "DV" and shall have

 

the words "disabled veteran" inscribed beneath the registration

 

number. For the purposes of this section, "private passenger motor

 

vehicle" means a motor vehicle which that is personally owned by

 

the disabled veteran and is used for the primary purpose of

 

transporting the disabled veteran and family members of the

 

disabled veteran, but does not include a motor home.

 

     (2) Application for the special registration plate shall be on

 

a form prescribed by the secretary of state , and shall be

 

accompanied by a service fee of $5.00 and proof that the applicant

 

was honorably discharged from the armed services and either 1 of

 

the following:

 

     (a) That the applicant has been determined by the veterans'

 

administration of the federal government United States Department

 

of Veterans Affairs to have a service-connected total or permanent

 

total disability rating for compensation.

 

     (b) That the applicant has been determined to have a service-

 

connected total or permanent total disability rating and is

 

receiving disability retirement pay from a branch of the uniformed

 

armed services.

 

     (3) A special registration issued under this section is exempt

 

from payment of the tax provided in section 801.

 

     (4) The special registration plate shall expire expires on the

 

birthday of the disabled veteran in a year in which new plates are

 

issued by the secretary of state. Application for renewal of the

 

special registration plate shall be accompanied by a $5.00 service

 

fee. The applicant shall not be required to furnish the proof

 

provided in subsection (2).

 

     (5) The surviving spouse of a person who is a totally disabled

 

veteran with an honorable discharge from the armed services may use

a special registration plate issued under this section after the

 

death of the totally disabled veteran and may renew a special

 

registration plate issued under this section after the death of the

 

totally disabled veteran in the same manner as provided under this

 

section for a totally disabled veteran.

 

     (6) (5) The secretary of state may issue to a disabled person

 

who has been issued a special registration plate under this section

 

a tab for persons with disabilities. The tab for persons with

 

disabilities shall be an adhesive tab displaying the international

 

wheelchair symbol or a reasonable facsimile of that symbol. The tab

 

for persons with disabilities may be attached only to the special

 

registration plate issued to the disabled person under this

 

section.

 

     (7) (6) An application for a tab for persons with disabilities

 

shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state. The

 

secretary of state shall require the same proof that the applicant

 

is a disabled person as is required for issuance of a permanent

 

windshield placard under section 675. If the surviving spouse of a

 

totally disabled veteran is a disabled person, he or she may apply

 

to the secretary of state for a tab for persons with disabilities

 

in the same manner as provided for a totally disabled veteran under

 

this subsection.

 

     (8) (7) The tab for persons with disabilities shall be issued

 

free of charge.

 

     (9) (8) When a disabled person who has been issued a tab for

 

persons with disabilities renews his or her special registration

 

plate under this section, the secretary of state shall issue a new

tab for persons with disabilities to the disabled person, free of

 

charge. The disabled person shall not be required to again furnish

 

the proof required under subsection (6).(7).

 

     (10) (9) The use of the special registration plate or a tab

 

for persons with disabilities on a motor vehicle other than the

 

motor vehicle for which the special registration plate is issued,

 

or by a person who does not qualify under this section, is a

 

misdemeanor.