Chapter 160 VEHICLES, LICENSING OF.

160-12    EXEMPTIONS

No annual registration fee prescribed in this chapter shall be required for any one (1) motor vehicle owned and used personally by any veteran who has either lost or lost the use of one (1) or both legs or an arm or a hand or who is blind or who is permanently and totally disabled, as certified by the Veterans Administration.  Any such vehicle shall display special permit red, white and blue plates of a type approved by the Town Clerk.  The Town Clerk shall prescribe application forms for such exemptions, and the application shall be accompanied by a statement that such veteran has been so designated or classified by the Veterans Administration as to meet the requirements of this section and that such disability is service-connected.  For the purposes of this section, a person shall be considered blind if he has a permanent impairment of both eyes of the following status:  central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual activity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than twenty degrees (20 °) in the better eye.

 (Ord. No. 5-91 Amended (B) 12-10-90-Effective 1-1-91)

(Ord. No. 1-93 Extension of (B) 1-11-93-Effective Upon Passage)

(Ord. No. 17-93 Repealed (B) “Issuance of a Joint Town/County Decal” 12-13-93-Effective 3-15-94)