Bill Text: PA SB1015 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In registration of vehicles, providing for a special registration plate for veterans and members of United States military airborne units.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-28 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [SB1015 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB1015-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1127
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1015 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, COSTA, FONTANA, BREWSTER, FARNESE, RAFFERTY, WASHINGTON AND BOSCOLA, APRIL 28, 2011
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 28, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in registration of vehicles, providing for a
special registration plate for veterans and members of United
States military airborne units.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1366. Special plates for United States military airborne
units.
(a) General rule.--Upon application of any person who is a
veteran of or a member of a United States military airborne
unit, accompanied by a fee of $20 which shall be in addition to
the annual registration fee and by such documentation as the
department shall require, the department shall issue to the
person a special registration plate designating the vehicle so
licensed as belonging to a person who is a veteran of or a
member of a United States military airborne unit. 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.
The department shall design and produce the special registration
plate to display a set of jump wings and glider wings.
(b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "veteran
of or a member of a United States military airborne unit"
includes parachutist or glider units, glider troopers,
paratroopers, air assault troopers, Rangers, U.S. Army Special
Forces, USMC Recon, U.S. Navy Seals, U.S. Air Force Special
Operations, Troop Carrier Command, including glider pilots and
the 160th SOAR, military personnel who satisfactorily completed
the prescribed proficiency tests while assigned or attached to
an airborne unit and any other military personnel determined by
the department to be appropriately classified as a member of a
United States military airborne parachutist or glider unit.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 120 days.
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