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.)