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§31-3-87  Special plate for breast cancer support. –


Published: 2015

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TITLE 31

Motor and Other vehicles

CHAPTER 31-3

Registration of Vehicles

SECTION 31-3-87



   § 31-3-87  Special plate for breast cancer

support. –

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

available a special motor vehicle registration plate for victims and survivors

of breast cancer. The plate shall bear the designation

"www.breastcancerRI.org", and shall bear the pink ribbon associated with breast

cancer support.



   (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 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 "Breast Cancer Support" motor vehicle plates shall be

the same size as regular motor vehicle plates and shall be designed in

conjunction with the division of motor vehicles, with the design approved by

the Rhode Island state police.



   (d) The "Breast Cancer Support" motor vehicle plates shall be

subject to a minimum pre-paid order of at least nine hundred (900) plates.

Rhode Island breast cancer coalition plates shall not be issued unless the

minimum order requirements are met.



   (e) The administrator of motor vehicles shall develop

application forms, 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 fee, "Breast Cancer Support" motor vehicle 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 Rhode Island Breast Cancer Coalition.



   (h) A ten dollar ($10.00) surcharge for subsequent

registration renewals shall be allocated to the Rhode Island Chapter Breast

Cancer Coalition.



   (i) The Rhode Island Breast Cancer Coalition shall be

required to submit an annual audit, prepared by a certified public accountant

before such monies are distributed.



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

"Breast Cancer Support" motor vehicle plates.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2009, ch. 226, § 1.)