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SENATE BILL NO. 758
Offered January 18, 2008
A BILL to authorize the issuance of special license plates for immediate family members of persons who died in military service in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 11, 2001.
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Patron-- Ruff
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1. Special license plates for members of the immediate families of persons who died in military service to the United States in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001.

On receipt of an application and written evidence that the applicant is a member of the immediate family of a person who died in military service to the United States in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001, the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue to the applicant special license plates following the provisions of § 46.2-725 of the Code of Virginia.

For the purposes of this section, a member of the immediate family shall include (i) a widow or widower, remarried or not; (ii) a mother, father, stepmother, stepfather, mother through adoption, father through adoption, and foster parents who stood in loco parentis; (iii) each child, stepchild, and adopted child; and (iv) each brother, half-brother, sister, and half-sister.