HARRY HUGHES, Governor

711

CHAPTER 238

(House Bill 913)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Special Registration Plates for Disabled
Persons - Prohibition

FOR the purpose of providing that a person who operates a motor
vehicle with a special disabled person's registration number
may not use certain privileges unless the person, or a
certain dependent or individual who accompanies the person,
meets certain requirements.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Transportation
Section 13-616(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation
Section 13-616(g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

13-616.

(a) (1) The owner of any vehicle described in paragraph (2)
of this subsection may apply to the Administration for the
assignment to that vehicle of a special, disabled person's
registration number, if the applicant, a dependent of the
applicant, or any individual who depends on the applicant for
transportation:

(i) Has permanently lost the use of a leg or an
arm;

(ii) Is so severely and permanently disabled as
to be unable to move without a wheelchair or crutches;

(iii) So suffers from lung disease that his
forced expiratory volume, one second, when measured by
spirometry, is less than one liter;