2011 South Dakota Code
Title 32 MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 05. Annual Registration And License Plates
§32-5-108 Special plates for certain disabled veterans--Design of plates--Fees--Surrender of plates--Violation as misdemeanor.

32-5-108. Special plates for certain disabled veterans--Design of plates--Fees--Surrender of plates--Violation as misdemeanor. Any resident veteran owner of a motor vehicle who has received the United States Veterans' Administration K Award, meets the qualifications established by Public Law 187 of the Eighty-second Congress for a veteran to receive an automobile, or a veteran who has been rated as in receipt of a statutory benefit for loss or loss of use of one or more extremities, or a veteran who receives a veteran's allotment for total disability under compensation which is considered a service-connected injury, upon application to the department shall receive a maximum of two sets of special license plates for any automobile, pickup truck, or van licensed pursuant to § 32-5-5 or a motorcycle licensed pursuant to § 32-5-9. The veteran may choose to use one of the two sets of plates on a noncommercial motor vehicle that is a pickup truck and that weighs more than six thousand pounds licensed pursuant to § 32-5-6.3 or a motor home licensed pursuant to § 32-5-6.1. The veteran shall pay the regular license fees set out in §§ 32-5-6.3 and 32-5-6.1 and may not be required to pay the ten dollars for the special plates and renewal stickers. The special plates shall be displayed as set forth in § 32-5-98. The design of the license plate shall consist of a white background bordered on the left by a blue field with white stars and on the right by alternating red and white stripes. The words, Disabled Veteran, shall be inscribed on the plate in blue, in at least ten point bold type. The license plate shall be reflectorized and validated each year with a sticker in the same manner as a noncommercial license plate. License fees for the special plates shall be ten dollars for the plates and the renewal stickers. No license fee or sticker fee pursuant to § 32-5-6 or 32-5-9 may be charged to the veteran. The fees shall be deposited in the license plate special revenue fund.

In order to qualify for a special license plate pursuant to this section, a veteran shall, in addition to meeting the qualifications established in the first paragraph, have incurred disabling injuries while serving the United States in active duty during a time of war or while participating in a military mission involving armed conflict. If it is determined that the veteran owner does not qualify for the special plates or if the veteran owner dies, the plates shall be surrendered to the county treasurer of applicant's residence. The treasurer shall notify the secretary who shall make the necessary changes in the registration file. Failure to surrender the special license plates as required by this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1980, ch 216; SL 1981, ch 235, § 1; SL 1985, ch 247, §§ 1, 1A; SL 1986, ch 242, § 17; SL 1989, ch 257, § 105; SL 2007, ch 173, § 31, eff. July 1, 2008; SL 2008, ch 153, § 1.