55-4-243 - Enemy evadees. - Tennessee Statutes

55-4-243. Enemy evadees.

(a)  (1)  An owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state and who is an “enemy evadee” certified as such by the department of veterans' affairs, upon complying with state motor vehicle laws relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles and upon paying the regular fee applicable to the vehicle and the fee prescribed by § 55-4-203, shall be issued a registration plate for a motor vehicle authorized by § 55-4-210(c).

     (2)  A surviving spouse of a deceased enemy evadee, upon complying with state motor vehicle laws relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles and upon paying the regular fee applicable to the vehicle and the fee prescribed by § 55-4-203, shall be issued a registration plate pursuant to this section, until the surviving spouse remarries.

     (3)  The application shall be accompanied by orders or a statement of discharge from the appropriate branch of the United States armed forces, certified by the department of veterans' affairs, classifying the applicant as an “enemy evadee,” or in the case of an application by a surviving spouse for continuation of a license plate or plates formerly held by a deceased spouse enemy evadee, a copy of the death certificate.

(b)  (1)  The design of such license plates that are issued pursuant to this section shall be colored red, white and blue so as to be similar in hue and intensity to the coloration of the United States flag and shall bear the legend, “ENEMY EVADEE.”

     (2)  The registration plates provided for in this section shall be designed in consultation with the commissioner of veterans' affairs.

(c)  For the purposes of this part, “enemy evadees” means veterans of the United States armed forces who, in time of war, successfully evaded capture behind enemy lines, and many of whom joined local indigenous personnel in resisting enemy forces.

[Acts 1998, ch. 1063, § 1.]