Chapter 643

2006 -- S 2013 SUBSTITUTE A

Enacted 07/14/06

A N A C T

RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES

Introduced By: Senators Tassoni, Issa, Doyle, and McBurney

Date Introduced: January 10, 2006

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Chapter 31-3 of the General Laws entitled "Registration of Vehicles" is

hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

31-3-80. Reserve Forces plates. – (a) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles

is empowered and authorized to make available to all active and retired members of the United

States Reserve Forces of Rhode Island a special motor vehicle registration plate for any motor

vehicle eligible for registration as an automobile or a commercial vehicle having a gross weight

of eight thousand five hundred pounds (8,500 lbs.) or less.

(b) The special motor vehicle registration plate shall carry on it the designation “US

Reserve Forces” and shall carry on it the titles, (Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force and Coast

Guard) arranged on the left hand side of the plate from top to bottom in this order of precedence,

with numerals to the right of the titles.

(c) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles shall issue the plate upon payment

of a service charge of twenty dollars ($20.00) and a transfer charge of five dollars ($5.00) for the

plate. All revenues shall be deposited as general revenues.

(d) For the purposes of this section an active or retired member of the United States

Reserve Forces shall be defined as currently serving or having retired under honorable conditions

from any of the Reserve Forces other than the Rhode Island Army or Air National Guard.

(e) In a national state of emergency, any active member of the United States Reserve

Forces driving a vehicle bearing the special motor vehicle registration plate shall be authorized

and empowered to travel upon the highways of the state notwithstanding any driving ban imposed

by any state or municipal authority.

(f) No US Reserve Forces plates shall be issued until at least nine hundred (900) such

plates have been ordered.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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