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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 3-664 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (625 ILCS 5/3-664)
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| 7 | Sec. 3-664. Gold Star license plates. Upon proper | ||||||
| 8 | application, the Secretary of State shall
issue registration | ||||||
| 9 | plates designated as Gold Star license plates to any Illinois | ||||||
| 10 | resident who is the
surviving widow or widower, to each parent | ||||||
| 11 | who is an Illinois resident, and to each Illinois resident who | ||||||
| 12 | is a child, stepchild, child through adoption, brother, | ||||||
| 13 | half-brother, sister, or half-sister, widower, sibling, | ||||||
| 14 | daughter, son, or parent of a person who served in the Armed | ||||||
| 15 | Forces of the United States and
lost his or her life while in | ||||||
| 16 | service whether in peacetime or war. The
surviving widow or | ||||||
| 17 | widower, each of the parents, and each child, stepchild, child | ||||||
| 18 | through adoption, brother, half-brother, sister, or | ||||||
| 19 | half-sister and each surviving parent, daughter, son, and | ||||||
| 20 | sibling shall be issued one or more sets of registration | ||||||
| 21 | plates. Registration plates issued under this
Section shall be | ||||||
| 22 | for first division vehicles and second division vehicles
of | ||||||
| 23 | 8,000 pounds or less. The Secretary may, in his or her | ||||||
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| 1 | discretion, allow the plates to be issued as vanity or | ||||||
| 2 | personalized plates in accordance with Section 3-405.1 of this | ||||||
| 3 | Code. No registration fee shall be required from a surviving | ||||||
| 4 | widows, widowers, parents, or children of persons widow, | ||||||
| 5 | widower, or parent of a person who served in the Armed Forces | ||||||
| 6 | of the United States: and
lost his or her life while in service | ||||||
| 7 | while in wartime.
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| 8 | (1) who lost their lives during World War I, World War | ||||||
| 9 | II, or during any subsequent period of armed hostilities | ||||||
| 10 | in which the United States was engaged before July 1, | ||||||
| 11 | 1958; | ||||||
| 12 | (2) who lost or lose their lives after June 30, 1958: | ||||||
| 13 | while engaged in military operations involving conflict | ||||||
| 14 | with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with | ||||||
| 15 | friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict in | ||||||
| 16 | which the United States is not a belligerent party against | ||||||
| 17 | an opposing armed force; or | ||||||
| 18 | (3) who lost or lose their lives after March 28, 1973, | ||||||
| 19 | as a result of: an international terrorist attack against | ||||||
| 20 | the United States or a foreign nation friendly to the | ||||||
| 21 | United States, recognized as such an attack by the | ||||||
| 22 | Secretary of Defense; or military operations while serving | ||||||
| 23 | outside the United States (including the commonwealths, | ||||||
| 24 | territories, and possessions of the United States) as part | ||||||
| 25 | of a peacekeeping force. | ||||||
| 26 | (Source: P.A. 102-106, eff. 1-1-22.)
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