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Gold Star Family Plate — $8.50 Once, and It Stops You Paying to Park

Available to immediate family members of someone killed while on active duty. It costs $8.50 to obtain and nothing to renew, and — the part almost nobody knows — it exempts the vehicle from state and local parking fees. It must be ordered in person at a motor vehicle office and cannot be personalised.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

Available to immediate family members of someone killed while on active duty. It costs $8.50 to obtain and nothing to renew, and — the part almost nobody knows — it exempts the vehicle from state and local parking fees. It must be ordered in person at a motor vehicle office and cannot be personalised.

What it's worth: $8.50 initial, $0 renewal — and exemption from state and local parking fees

  • The department states the plate is available to immediate family members of those killed while on active duty in the armed forces, with qualifying documentation listed in the application and affidavit.
  • The department states plainly that this plate exempts the vehicle from state and local parking fees.
  • The published total fees are $8.50 initial and $0 renewal, for a sequential numbering.
  • The plate is available for non-commercial vehicles, motorcycles and trailers.
  • The department states these plates are stocked at its offices and must be ordered in person.
  • The department states that personalisations are not available on this plate.
  • The application is the Gold Star licence plate application published by the department.
  • On its disabled parking page the department repeats that Disabled Veteran plates, Fallen Military plates and Gold Star plates carry a fee exemption, and that owners are exempt from parking fees at any facility owned by a state or local government agency.
  • The department states on the same page that handicapped plates and placards do NOT waive parking fees, and that meter and garage charges must be paid.
  • The department notes that all veterans plates must be ordered in person at a local office, with an appointment recommended.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are an immediate family member.
  • Your home is in this state.

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. 1Read the qualifying documentation list on the application and affidavit before you go — the department puts the proof requirements there rather than on the web page.
  2. 2Book an appointment. This plate is stocked at offices and must be ordered in person; it cannot be done online or by post.
  3. 3Do not expect a personalised version. Personalisation is expressly unavailable on this plate, so the design conversation is a short one.
  4. 4Budget $8.50 once. There is no renewal charge for the plate itself, though your ordinary registration continues as normal.
  5. 5Use the parking exemption. The plate exempts the vehicle from state and local parking fees, which over a year of downtown or airport parking is worth many times the $8.50.
  6. 6Carry the department’s own wording if you are challenged. Its disabled parking page states that owners of these plates are exempt from parking fees at any facility owned by a state or local government agency — that is the sentence that settles an argument with an attendant.
  7. 7Note the vehicle types covered: non-commercial vehicles, motorcycles and trailers all take this plate.
Form
Gold Star licence plate application and affidavit
File with
A Department of Motor Vehicles office, in person
Annual
Claimed once a year.
CorrectionThe plate is usually described as a memorial plate and nothing more. The department’s own pages say otherwise in two places: it carries a parking fee exemption at any facility owned by a state or local government agency. That is a recurring, quantifiable benefit hiding inside a recognition plate.
Worth knowingThe exemption is from parking FEES, not from parking rules. It does not authorise an accessible space, does not override a time limit, and does not excuse a tow-away zone. It is about money, not about where you may leave the car.
Known gapThe web page defines eligibility only as "immediate family members" and refers the detail to the application and affidavit, which was not extracted this session. Who exactly counts — parents, siblings, adult children — should be confirmed from that form before a family makes the trip.

Sources

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