Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:490.1.1 – Military honor plates for veterans and other military personnel; issuance of military honor license plate with an identical number for motorcycle and boat trailer
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:490.1.1
- Boat trailer: means a noncommercial vehicle of the trailer or semitrailer type used solely and exclusively for transporting pleasure watercraft and having a loaded gross weight of not more than one thousand five hundred pounds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Motor vehicle: means every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self propelled. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicles as may be included within the classification "tractor" as herein defined. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Trailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure and designed to be drawn by a truck, tractor, or another motor vehicle and having two or more load carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person, property, or thing is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided, that for the purpose of this Chapter, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall not be deemed a vehicle, and provided further that a trailer or semitrailer shall be held and deemed each to be and constitute a separate vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
A. The provisions of this Section shall be applicable to a Louisiana resident who has been issued a military honor license plate under the provisions of this Part.
B. In the event the motor vehicle registration system of the office of motor vehicles is re-engineered, or other technology is otherwise made available to the office of motor vehicles, and upon application of a Louisiana resident who holds a military honor license plate issued under the provisions of this Part, the deputy secretary of public safety shall issue a military honor license plate with an identical number for use on an applicant’s motorcycle and boat trailer in lieu of the regular motor vehicle registration license plate applicable to a motorcycle and boat trailer. The applicant shall comply with state laws relating to registration and licensing of a motorcycle and boat trailer.
C. No vehicle license tax and fee shall be charged for issuance of an additional military honor license plate as authorized by this Section, and such plate shall not be subject to the renewal requirements applicable to standard plates.
D. The deputy secretary of public safety shall adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of this Section, including but not limited to rules and regulations governing the transfer and disposition of such license plates.
Acts 2017, No. 320, §1.