The commissioner shall, at the request of the chief of any regular or volunteer fire department or the person in charge of any organized civil preparedness auxiliary fire company, register, without charge, any motor vehicle used as fire apparatus by such department or company and shall issue a certificate of registration and number plates bearing the words “fire apparatus” therefor.
(1955, S. 1290d; 1963, P.A. 410; P.A. 73-544, S. 22.)
History: 1963 act added provision that plates bear words “fire apparatus”; P.A. 73-544 substituted “civil preparedness” for “civil defense”.