§ 27-15-101 - Decal for deaf persons.

27-15-101. Decal for deaf persons.

(a) The Department of Finance and Administration shall provide a motor vehicle license plate decal for deaf persons upon the payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00) and satisfactory proof that the person's average loss in the speech frequencies of five hundred (500) Hertz to two thousand (2,000) Hertz in the better ear is eighty-six (86) decibels or worse by the International Organization for Standardization.

(b) The department shall design a decal to indicate that the operator of the motor vehicle may be deaf.

(c) The decals shall be made available beginning September 1, 1985.