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Disabled Veteran Plates — No Registration Fee, Up to Three Vehicles

A veteran certified permanently disabled and receiving 100% service-connected benefits registers up to three vehicles with no annual registration fee, with disabled-veteran plates on request — and the excise tax that towns collect on registration is exempt for total service-connected disability as well.

Verified August 22, 2026

What this benefit is

A veteran certified permanently disabled and receiving 100% service-connected benefits registers up to three vehicles with no annual registration fee, with disabled-veteran plates on request — and the excise tax that towns collect on registration is exempt for total service-connected disability as well.

What it's worth: Registration certificate and plates with no annual registration fee, up to three vehicles of 26,000 lbs registered gross weight or less; municipal excise tax exempt alongside

  • The certification must come from the federal veterans department or a branch of the armed forces and state both the permanence and the 100% service-connected benefits.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are certified permanently disabled with 100% service-connected benefits.
  • You live in Maine.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Bring certification from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs — or a branch of the armed forces — of the permanent disability and receipt of 100% service-connected benefits; the Secretary of State then issues the registration with no annual fee, and the special designating plates on request.
  2. 2The no-fee registration reaches up to three vehicles owned by the veteran, each of registered gross weight not more than 26,000 pounds.
  3. 3Claim the municipal excise tax exemption at the same town office visit — the veterans bureau lists it for veterans receiving any form of federal pension or compensation for total service-connected disability, proved with a current VA Benefit Summary letter.
  4. 4A disability parking placard is available alongside the disabled-veteran registration at no fee.
Form
Registration with the federal disability certification
File with
Bureau of Motor Vehicles, through your town office registration desk
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter
Annual
Claimed once a year.
CorrectionSummaries stop at "free plates". The statute waives the annual registration fee itself, on up to three vehicles at once — and the excise tax, which towns collect on every registration and which usually dwarfs the registration fee, is exempt for total service-connected disability through its own provision.
Worth knowingThe eligibility wording is double-barrelled: certification of the permanent disability AND of receipt of 100% service-connected benefits. A temporary 100% rating does not read onto it.

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