BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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FOR the purpose of exempting bona fide church school
vehicles Type I and Type II school vehicles owned by a
religious organization from vehicle registration fees.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Transportation
Section 13-903 (a) (8) and (9)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article — Transportation
Section 13-903(a)(10)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article - Transportation

13-903.

(a) The following vehicles are exempt from the
registration fees specified in this subtitle:

(8)    A motor vehicle and trailer known as the
"40—8 box car" that is owned and operated only for social or
charitable purposes by any voiture of the Forty and Eight of
the American Legion, Department of Maryland; [and]

(9)    A vehicle owned and personally used by a
veteran who:

(i) As designated or classified by the
Veterans' Administration, has lost the use of a hand, arm,
or leg, or is totally disabled; or

(ii) Has a permanent impairment of both
eyes so that:

1.     The central visual acuity is
20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses;
or

2.     There is a field defect in
which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent
that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular
distance no greater than 20 degrees in the better eye[.];

AND

(10)   A TYPE I OR TYPE II SCHOOL VEHICLE OWNED