Sec. 14-20c. Number plates for immediate family of residents killed in action with armed forces.
Sec. 14-20c. Number plates for immediate family of residents killed in action
with armed forces. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, at the request of any immediate family member, shall issue a special certificate of registration and a set of number
plates memorializing residents of this state who were killed in action while performing
active military duty with the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103. Such registration
and number plates shall be available for any motor vehicle owned or leased for a period
of at least one year. Such number plates shall expire and be renewed as provided in
section 14-22. No fee shall be charged for such plates. Such plates shall bear the words
"Gold Star Family", and the design of such plates shall be approved by a committee
established by the commissioner. For the purposes of this section, "immediate family
member" includes a spouse, mother, father, brother, sister, child, grandmother or grandfather of a resident of this state who was killed in action while performing active military
duty with the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103.
(P.A. 07-167, S. 24; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 32; P.A. 08-104, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 07-167 effective June 25, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 made technical changes, deleted provision re
Connecticut service members and added provisions re state residents killed in action while performing active military duty
with armed forces, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 08-104 eliminated fee for Gold Star Family number plates, effective
May 27, 2008.