By Mr. Atsalis of Barnstable, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3426) of Demetrius J. Atsalis that the Registrar of Motor Vehicles be directed to issue distinctive motor vehicle plates for recipients of the Combat Infantry Badge.  Transportation.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Demetrius J. Atsalis

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act requiring that the Registry of Motor Vehicles be directed to issue distinctive motor vehicle plates for recipients of the Combat Infantry Badge.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  Section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1998

Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the 16th paragraph the following

paragraph:—

The registrar shall furnish without charge to owners of private passenger motor vehicles

who are veterans, who have been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, upon presentation

of satisfactory evidence of such status as determined by the registrar, distinctive

registration plates for one private passenger motor vehicle owned and principally used by

such survivor; provided, however, that the surviving spouse of a deceased survivor may

elect to retain such distinctive registration plates for personal use upon payment of the

established registration fee for private passenger motor vehicles and an additional annual

$20 fee until such time as such spouse remarries or fails to renew or cancels such

registration.