PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 550

CHAPTER 550
(Senate Bill 137)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Annual Registration Fee - Special Registration Plates for Disabled

Veterans

FOR the purpose of clarifying that a certain qualifying disabled veteran may receive a
special vehicle registration number numbers and special registration plates without
paying the annual vehicle registration fee; making a stylistic change; clarifying
language; and generally relating to registration fees.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 13-903
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article - Transportation

13-903.

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

(1) A vehicle that is owned and operated by the United States, this State, or
any political subdivision of this State;

(2) A vehicle that is owned by a volunteer fire company incorporated in this
State or by a rescue squad and that is used for fire-fighting or ambulance purposes;

(3) A canteen wagon of a recognized fire buff organization, as certified by
the International Fire Buffs Association;

(4) A vehicle owned and operated by the Civil Air Patrol;

(5) A vehicle owned and operated by a unit of a national veterans'
organization;

(6) A vehicle owned and operated by a Maryland chapter of the American

Red Cross;

(7) 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;

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

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