Disabled Veteran Plates — Three Registrations a Year, No Fee
A wartime veteran whose qualifying disability is certified service-connected — blindness, hemiplegia, paraplegia, loss or loss of use of an arm or leg, or traumatic brain injury — registers up to three vehicles a year with disabled veteran plates for NO registration fee, on new registrations, transfers and renewals alike. An overtime-parking identification card comes with each renewal.
Verified August 27, 2026
What this benefit is
A wartime veteran whose qualifying disability is certified service-connected — blindness, hemiplegia, paraplegia, loss or loss of use of an arm or leg, or traumatic brain injury — registers up to three vehicles a year with disabled veteran plates for NO registration fee, on new registrations, transfers and renewals alike. An overtime-parking identification card comes with each renewal.
What it's worth: No registration fee on up to three vehicles a year — passenger, camper or combination class — with the disabled veteran plate
- Title, lien, Clean Air Act and similar charges still apply; only the registration fee is waived.
- The fee exemption sits at CGS 14-49(o) and the overtime-parking identification card at CGS 14-254.
- This is not the only route to free registration in Connecticut. CGS 14-21d gives former prisoners of war and Medal of Honor recipients two vehicles free of registration fees, on tests that have nothing to do with the qualifying disabilities listed here.
Who is entitled to it
- The federal veterans affairs department certifies a service-connected disability — the plate turns on its NATURE, listed below.
- You are a resident of this state.
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How to claim it
- 1Get a letter on federal veterans affairs letterhead verifying the disabled veteran status — the qualifying disability must be certified service-connected: blindness, hemiplegia, paraplegia, loss or amputation of all or part of an arm or leg, or traumatic brain injury, for a veteran who served in time of war.
- 2Make the initial plate-and-registration request in person at the Wethersfield office; renewals and transfers run at any full-service office.
- 3Up to three registrations a year carry the plates for no fee — passenger, camper or combination class, owned or leased by the veteran. Title, lien and clean-air charges still apply.
- 4An overtime-parking identification card (form A-19) is issued at each renewal, allowing up to 24 hours of overtime parking under Conn. Gen. Stat. §14-254 — it does not open reserved accessible spaces.
- 5On the veteran's death the surviving spouse keeps the plate for life at no fee, until remarriage.
- Form
- Disabled veteran plate request with the federal approval letter
- File with
- Department of Motor Vehicles — initial requests in person at the Wethersfield office
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- Periodic
- Re-confirmed from time to time.
Sources
- operating · published policyDepartment of Motor Vehicles — Disabled Veteran Registration (class code 14) notice, published on the state portal
Why only one source type: The department's own notice states eligibility, the three-registration no-fee rule, the office procedure and the spouse survivorship in terms; the statute site refused connections this session, so the fee section could not be read alongside it.
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