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ORIGINAL House
ENGROSSED
Bill No
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HB0067
ENROLLED ACT NO. 62,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2023 General Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for a decal designating a woman veteran to attach to a veteran's special license plate; making clarifying amendments; providing for a decal fee; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 31
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217(a) through (d), (e) by creating a new paragraph (v), (g) and by creating a new subsection (m) is amended to read:
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217.
Special plates; Pearl Harbor survivors; national guard members; armed forces veterans; purple heart recipients; women armed forces veteran decals.
(a)
The county treasurer shall issue one (1) set of special license plates to each applicant for either a passenger car, truck, motorcycle, handicapped motorcycle or motor home owned or leased by a survivor of Pearl Harbor, a member of the Wyoming army or air national guard
,
a purple heart recipient or honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces
and, if applied for and eligible, one (1) set of decals designating the person is an honorably discharged woman veteran of the United States armed forces
in accordance with this section
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for the year 1990 and thereafter. For the year 1993 and thereafter, the county treasurer shall issue one (1) set of special license plates to each applicant for either a passenger car, truck, motorcycle, handicapped motorcycle or motor home owned by a purple heart recipient.
These license plates shall be displayed upon the vehicle for which they are issued.
A decal designating the person is an honorably discharged woman veteran shall be attached in the lower left corner of a license plate issued under this section.
(b)
Application
Applications
for license plates
and decals
under subsection (a) of this section shall be annually made to the county treasurer as provided by this article. Application forms shall be available at all county treasurer's offices. The registration fees prescribed by W.S. 31
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101 shall accompany each application,
and
except as provided in
subsection
subsections
(j)
and (m)
, no additional fee shall be charged for the license plates
or decals
provided by this section.
(c)
Any person eligible under subsection (e) of this section for
the
a
special license plate
or decal
provided by this section may apply for additional special license plates
or decals
upon the payment of any fees required by this act.
(d)
The special license plates shall be the same color as regular motor vehicle license plates, but shall bear a distinctive symbol or letters identifying the registrant as a survivor of Pearl Harbor, a member of the Wyoming army or air national guard, a purple heart recipient or as a veteran of the United States armed forces. The armed forces license plate shall specify the branch of service in which the applicant served
,
or is serving. The department shall prescribe the symbol or letters
,
which need not include arabic numerals designating the county. The symbol or letters for
a survivor of Pearl Harbor
each type of
license plate
provided for in this section
shall be different from
the symbol or letters for
the other types of license plates provided for in this section to differentiate and designate whether the person is a survivor of Pearl Harbor,
a national guard member,
and for the armed forces license plate as well as
a purple heart recipient
license plate
or a veteran of the United States armed forces
.
The special license plates shall allow for a decal designating an honorably discharged woman veteran to be attached in the lower left corner of the license plate without obscuring any other symbols, letters or numbers on the license plate.
(e)
Any person who is a Wyoming resident at the time of application may apply under this section for:
(v)
An honorably discharged woman veteran of the United States armed forces decal to be attached in the lower left corner of any license plate under this section by presenting documentation that she is a female and an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces.
(g)
All applications for special license plates provided by this section shall be made directly to the county treasurer at least thirty (30) days before registration of the vehicle expires.
Applications for decals designating an honorably discharged woman veteran of the United States armed forces may be made at the same time as applying for special license plates under this section.
The department may prepare any special forms and issue any rules and regulations necessary to carry out this section.
(m)
The decal designating a woman veteran of the United States armed forces shall bear a distinctive symbol or letters identifying the registrant as an honorably discharged woman veteran of the United States armed forces. Each applicant for a decal under this subsection shall submit an administration fee with the application. The fee shall be in an amount determined by the department to be sufficient to recover reasonable administrative costs of the decal, but not more than five dollars ($5.00) per set of decals for any one (1) vehicle. Upon completion of the application, receipt of the administration fee, determination of eligibility and issuance or renewal of special license plates under this section, the county treasurer shall issue to the applicant the number of decals corresponding to the number of license plates issued or renewed under this section to be attached to the license plates issued or renewed under this section. The replacement fee for a decal under this subsection shall be the same as for the original decal.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
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(END)
Speaker of the House
President of the Senate
Governor
TIME APPROVED: _________
DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.
Chief Clerk
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