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.)