Ch. 615                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 615

(Senate Bill 740)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Disabled Persons' Registration - Applications

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the Motor Vehicle Administration,
under certain circumstances, from accepting more than a
certain number of applications for special disabled persons'
registration from certain individuals; and generally
relating to applications for special disabled persons'
registration.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation
Section 13-616
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume)

(As enacted by Chapter 472 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1986)

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;

(iv) 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

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