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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6251

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Rasmussen, Patterson, Saling, Thorsness, Wojahn, Bender, Conner and Kreidler

Read first time 1/10/90 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to license plates for surviving spouses of deceased former prisoners of war; and amending RCW 73.04.115.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 98, Laws of 1987 and RCW 73.04.115 are each amended to read as follows:

          The department shall issue to the surviving spouse of any deceased former prisoner of war described in RCW 73.04.110(2), one set of regular or special license plates for use on a personal passenger vehicle registered to that person.

          ((In order to qualify under this section the surviving spouse must have been married to the deceased former prisoner of war during the period of his or her incarceration.))  The plates shall be issued without the payment of any license fees or excise tax on the vehicle.  Whenever any person who has been issued license plates under this section applies to the department for transfer of the plates to a subsequently acquired motor vehicle, a transfer fee of five dollars shall be charged in addition to all other appropriate fees.  If the surviving spouse remarries, he or she shall return the special plates to the department within fifteen days and apply for regular license plates.