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§31-3-91  Special plate for the Bristol Fourth of July Committee. –


Published: 2015

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TITLE 31

Motor and Other vehicles

CHAPTER 31-3

Registration of Vehicles

SECTION 31-3-91



   § 31-3-91  Special plate for the Bristol

Fourth of July Committee. –

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

available a special motor vehicle registration plate for the Bristol Fourth of

July Committee.



   (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 Bristol Fourth of July Committee motor vehicle plates

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

the Bristol Fourth of July Committee in conjunction with the division of motor

vehicles, with the design approved by the Rhode Island state police.



   (d) The Bristol Fourth of July Committee plates shall be

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

Bristol Fourth of July Committee plates shall not be issued unless the minimum

order requirements are met. The initial order shall be handled by the Bristol

Fourth of July Committee and shall not be submitted to the division of motor

vehicles for the production until the minimum order has been met and the proper

paperwork submitted to the division. Subsequent Bristol Fourth of July

Committee plate orders shall be handled by the division of motor vehicles.



   (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, Bristol Fourth of July Committee plates shall be subject to a

forty dollar ($40) issuance surcharge.



   (g) The forty dollar ($40) issuance surcharge shall be

allocated as follows: twenty dollars ($20) shall be allocated to the general

fund and the remaining twenty dollars ($20) shall be distributed annually to

the Bristol Fourth of July Committee to assist in the fiscal needs required to

conduct Bristol's historic Fourth of July celebration. (The distribution to the

Bristol Fourth of July Committee shall be placed in a restricted receipt

account and shall be paid to the Bristol Fourth of July Committee.)



   (h) The Bristol Fourth of July Committee will be required to

submit an annual financial statement before such monies are distributed.



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

Bristol Fourth of July Committee plates.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2011, ch. 202, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 203, § 1.)