TITLE 31

Motor and Other vehicles

CHAPTER 31-3

Registration of Vehicles

SECTION 31-3-99



   § 31-3-99  Special plate for the wildlife

rehabilitators association of Rhode Island (WRARI). –

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

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

Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island. The plates shall be

designed to reference Wildlife Rehabilitators Association 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 Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island

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

and shall be designed by the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode

Island in conjunction with the division of motor vehicles and with final

approval from the Rhode Island state police.



   (d) The Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island

plates shall be subject to a minimum prepaid order of at least nine hundred

(900) sets of plates per plate type (i.e. passenger, commercial, etc.). The

Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island plates shall not be issued

unless the minimum order(s) requirements are met. The initial order will be

handled by the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association 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 Wildlife Rehabilitators Association 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 to the

Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island to help further their

efforts in caring for injured and orphaned wildlife. All of the money raised

shall be spent in Rhode Island.



   (h) The Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island

will be required to submit an annual accounting report before such monies are

distributed.



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

Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island plates.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2013, ch. 480, § 1.)