TITLE 31

Motor and Other vehicles

CHAPTER 31-3

Registration of Vehicles

SECTION 31-3-97



   § 31-3-97  Special plate for home and

hospice care of Rhode Island. –

(a) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles is empowered to make

available special motor vehicle registration plates for the not-for-profit

entity Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island. The plates shall be designed to

reference Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island.



   (b) The special plates 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 Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island motor vehicle

plates shall be the same size as regular motor vehicle plates, and shall be

designed by the Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island in conjunction with the

division of motor vehicles, and with final approval from the Rhode Island state

police.



   (d) The Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island plates shall be

subject to a minimum prepaid order of at least nine hundred (900) sets of

passenger plates per plate type (i.e. passenger, commercial, etc). The Home and

Hospice Care of Rhode Island plates shall not be issued unless the minimum

order(s) requirements are met. The initial order will be handled by the Home

and Hospice Care of Rhode Island, and shall not be submitted to the division of

motor vehicles for production until the minimum order(s) has been met, and the

proper paperwork submitted to the division.



   (e) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles shall

develop prepayment 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 fees, the Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island 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 Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island in furtherance of their mission to

provide compassionate and skilled care to those who are seriously ill in the

state of Rhode Island.



   (h) The Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island will be

required to submit an annual accounting report before such monies are

distributed.



   (i) In consideration of the receipt of funds from the

registration of the Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island, the organization

must use any Rhode Island sourced funds in and for the benefit of the state of

Rhode Island.



   (j) There shall be no refunds for early cancellation of the

Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island plates.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2013, ch. 459, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 468, § 1.)