TITLE 31
Motor and Other vehicles
CHAPTER 31-3
Registration of Vehicles
SECTION 31-3-86
§ 31-3-86 Special plate for Friends of
Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc.
(a) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles is empowered to make
available special motor vehicle registration plates for the not-for profit
Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. The plates shall be designed to
reference Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc.
(b) The special plate shall be displayed upon the same
registration number assigned to the vehicle for which it was issued, and shall
be used in place of and in the same manner as the registration plates issued to
the vehicle. The original registration plates for the vehicle shall be removed
from the vehicle and returned to the division of motor vehicles. The
registration certificate for the plates shall be carried in the vehicle, in
accordance with § 31-3-9. The registration certificate shall be in effect
for the special plate.
(c) The Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. motor vehicle
plates shall be the same size as regular motor vehicle plates, and shall be
designed by the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. in conjunction with the
division of motor vehicles, with the design approved by theRhode Island state
police.
(d) The Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. plates shall
be subject to a minimum pre-paid order of at least nine hundred (900) sets of
plates per plate type (i.e. passenger, commercial, etc.). The Friends of Plum
Beach Lighthouse, Inc. plates shall not be issued unless the minimum order (s)
requirements are met. The initial order will be handled by the Friends of Plum
Beach Lighthouse, Inc., and shall not be submitted to the division of motor
vehicles for production until the minimum order(s) have been met, and the
proper paperwork submitted to the division.
(e) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles shall
develop application forms, pre-payment procedures and any other procedures
deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(f) In addition to the regular prescribed motor vehicle
registration fee, the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. plates shall be
subject to a forty dollar ($40.00) issuance surcharge.
(g) The forty dollar ($40.00) issuance surcharge shall be
allocated as follows:
Twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be allocated to the general
fund and the remaining twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be distributed annually to
the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. to assist in the fiscal needs
required to maintain and protect this historic site for all to enjoy, and to
continue in the fostering of the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse's, Inc.
presence as an asset to Rhode Island's economic growth and prosperity. (The
distribution to the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. shall be placed in a
restricted account and shall be paid to the Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse,
Inc.)
(h) The Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. will be
required to submit an annual accounting report before such monies are
distributed.
(i) There shall be no refunds for early cancellation of
Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse, Inc. plates.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2009, ch. 221, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 222, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch.
446, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 483, § 1.)