Bill Text: MI HB4513 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; purchase of a second disabled American veterans plate; allow for certain individuals. Amends sec. 803f of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.803f).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-05 - Printed Bill Filed 03/05/2009 [HB4513 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4513-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4513

 

March 4, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Moore, Lund, Espinoza, Rick Jones, Polidori, Rogers and Stamas and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

     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 or a person whose

 

immediate family member 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 1 or more

 

special registration plate which plates to each applicant that

 

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

 

     (a) "Immediate family" means a spouse, parent, child, or

 

sibling residing in that person's household.

 

     (b) "Private passenger motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle

 

which that is personally owned by the disabled veteran or his or

 

her immediate family 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

 

or the applicant's immediate family member was honorably discharged

 

from the armed services and either 1 of the following:

 

     (a) That the applicant or his or her immediate family member

 

has been determined by the veterans' administration of the federal

 

government to have a service-connected total or permanent total

 

disability rating for compensation.

 

     (b) That the applicant or his or her immediate family member

 

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 to a disabled veteran under

 

this section is exempt from payment of the tax provided in section

 

801. A special registration issued to an immediate family member of

 

a disabled veteran under this section is subject to the tax

 

provided in section 801 or a tax to be determined by the secretary

 

of state, at the secretary of state's discretion.

 

     (4) The special registration plate shall expire on the

 

birthday of the disabled veteran person applying for the special

 

registration plate 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 or the applicant's immediate family member shall not be

 

required to furnish the proof provided in subsection (2).

 

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

 

his or her immediate family member 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 or his or her immediate family member

 

under this section.

 

     (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

 

or his or her immediate family member is a disabled person as is

 

required for issuance of a permanent windshield placard under

 

section 675.

 

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

 

of charge.

 

     (8) When a disabled person or his or her immediate family

 

member 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 or his or her immediate family member shall not be required

 

to again furnish the proof required under subsection (6).

 

     (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.