PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 589

Approved May 25, 1995.

CHAPTER 589
(House Bill 1175)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Disabled Persons' Registration Plates Trucks

FOR the purpose of authorizing the owner of a motorcycle to apply to the Motor Vehicle
Administration for assignment to the motorcycle of a special, disabled person's
registration number and special registration plate; increasing the maximum
allowable manufacturer's rated capacity of a Class E (truck) vehicle that is eligible
for special disabled persons' registration plates; making conforming changes
concerning the issuance of certain placards; making a stylistic change changes; and
generally relating to the eligibility of motorcycles and trucks for special disabled
persons' registration plates.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 13-616(a) and 13-616.1(e)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 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 and special registration plates, 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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