Chapter
310
2006 -- S 2871 SUBSTITUTE A AS AMENDED
Enacted 07/04/06
A N A
C T
RELATING TO MOTOR AND
OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
Introduced By: Senator
Roger R. Badeau
Date Introduced: March 01,
2006
It is enacted
by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Section 31-3-15 of the General Laws in Chapter 31-3 entitled
"Registration
of
Vehicles" is hereby amended to read as follows:
31-3-15.
Special plates for state officers and mayors. -- (a) The administrator
of the
division
of motor vehicles has the right to issue a special registration plate for the
use of the
governor,
the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general, the
state treasurer,
the
president pro tem of the senate, the speaker of the house, and mayors of Rhode
Island cities.
The
plates will be furnished without additional cost. If mayors of Rhode Island
cities choose to
use city
motor vehicle registration plates, the mayors may place on the plates the official
seals of
the
respective city in a manner that does not obstruct the numbering or lettering.
(b) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles is authorized and
directed to
issue,
in addition to a regular registration plate, a special registration plate
for the private
passenger
motor vehicle of each former speaker of the house of representatives , each
former
majority
and minority leader of the house of representatives, and of each former majority and
minority leader of the senate and president of the senate.
Each of these plates is to bear the
identification
"house speaker emeritus" or , house majority leader
emeritus, house minority leader
emeritus, "senate majority leader emeritus" senate
minority leader emeritus, or “senate president
emeritus" with a seal of the state imprinted on the plate and
shall be financed without additional
registration
charge for a period of time as each former speaker and senate majority leader
and
president
of the senate desires.
SECTION
2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
=======
LC02389/SUB A
=======