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Above: Purple Heart - Issued to Purple Heart recipients only.
Disabled Veteran - Circular logo of Disabled American Veterans Association-THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS A "VET" plate.
This is a Special Interest plate and carries NO SPECIAL PARKING PRIVILEGES. The only way a person with this plate can
use handicapped parking is with a DMV issued Handicapped parking placard hanging from the mirror.
Iwo Jima Survivor -
Korean War Veteran -
Marine Corps League -
Connecticut Army National Guard Aviation - Issued late 2003
National Guard , Retired -
Above: Paratrooper, first seen October 2001.
Pearl Harbor 1941 -
Above: Submarine Silent Service, new for 2001. (DMV photo)
US Army Reserve -
Above: USS Connecticut -
Veteran - White on Blue. Most plates are number sequence only. This style "VETERAN" plate #857 is in reality a "DISABLED
VETERAN" plate (DMV class code 14). These plates were issued long before there were handicaped parking spaces and before
handicaped plates with international wheel chair symbol existed. See C.G.S. 14-254. Statute gives vehicles with this plate
the privilege to park overtime with out penalty(i.e. at parking meters after time expired or where signs restricted amount
of time a car could park in a space or lot). With the advent of handicapped parking spaces this plate can also be used to
park in such spaces. DMV says you have to have a severe disability such as missing limbs etc, to qualify for this plate.
When CT switched to the gradient blue plates, the small diagonal letters "VET" were used to indicate this type of plate.
Above: Standard issue Veteran plate, Special Interest Plate -100.VET to 999.VET issued in both passenger or combination
types; 100.VAA to 999.VZZ to be isuued in passenger type only.; Combination plates issued 100.VSA to 999.VSA,;however,it is
believed that some early issue VAA may have been assigned to combination plates. Plates can be issued as: Passenger(c.c 01),
Combination(c.c. 03), Commercial(c.c 02), Camper(c.c. 31) or P.O.W. (c.c. 16) registrations. No special parking privilege,
Above: Passenger- Veteran,Handicap. Note Passenger sequence; "V" is used for Veteran. Picture taken from car. The attached
PAC medalion is the Police Association of Connecticut medalion, not DMV issued.
Above: Passenger- Veteran, Handicap, Combination. Note Combination Sequence,
"V" indicates Veteran, used where space is limited.
Above: Veteran: Combination, Handicap, and POW. Note lettering system,
V indicates Veteran, this 4 digit sequence used with odd configured plates
short on space. POW issue plates use 1-4 digits followed by P O W diagonally.
Above: Veteran Combination Vanity Plate.
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