PRINTER'S NO. 1035
No. 887 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY M. WHITE, ROBBINS, TOMLINSON, BOSCOLA, FONTANA,
FERLO, TARTAGLIONE, ERICKSON, COSTA, ORIE, RAFFERTY,
WONDERLING, GREENLEAF, RHOADES, C. WILLIAMS, WASHINGTON,
ARMSTRONG, KITCHEN, STACK AND REGOLA, MAY 21, 2007
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, MAY 21, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for special plates for recipients
3 of the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Sections 1345 and 1346 of Title 75 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 1345. Special plates for recipients of the Medal of Honor.
9 Upon application of any person who is a recipient or a
10 surviving spouse of a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the
11 department shall issue to such person a special registration
12 plate designating the vehicle so licensed as belonging to a
13 person who is a recipient or a surviving spouse of a recipient
14 of the Medal of Honor. The plate shall have a light blue
15 background interspersed with 13 white stars. The center of the
16 plate shall bear a golden bronze replica of the appropriate
17 medal. The initials of each recipient shall be embossed in red
1 to the left of the medal and the letters "CMH" (for
2 Congressional Medal of Honor) shall be embossed in red to the
3 right of the medal.
4 § 1346. Special plates for recipients of the Purple Heart.
5 Upon application of any person who is a recipient or the
6 surviving spouse of a recipient of the Purple Heart, the
7 department shall issue to such person a special registration
8 plate designating the vehicle so licensed as belonging to a
9 person who is a recipient or a surviving spouse of a recipient
10 of the Purple Heart. Only one special registration plate shall
11 be issued to a recipient or surviving spouse of a recipient of
12 the Purple Heart under this section. The special registration
13 may be used on a vehicle that is a truck with a registered gross
14 weight of not more than 9,000 pounds, a passenger car or a motor
15 home. A severely disabled veteran, as described in section
16 1342(a) (relating to veteran plates and placard), who is
17 qualified to receive a plate under this section may also elect
18 to receive a placard under section 1342(b). [The special
19 registration plate may be used only on a passenger car or truck
20 with a registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.]
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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