Chapter 453
2013 -- H 5306 SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 07/16/13
A N A C T
RELATING TO
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
Introduced
By: Representatives
Date Introduced: February 07, 2013
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:
31-3-96.
Emergency medical technician plates. – (a) The administrator of the division
of motor vehicles is empowered and authorized to make
available to all licensed emergency
medical technicians a special motor vehicle registration
plate for any motor vehicle eligible for
registration as an automobile or for a commercial vehicle having a
gross weight of ten thousand
pounds (10,000 lbs) or less.
(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 section 31-3-9. The registration
certificate shall be in effect for the
special plate. The administrator shall be authorized to
retain newly issued plate numbers, at his or
her discretion, for the purpose of conducting auctions of
the right to use and display those
numbers under such terms and conditions as the administrator
may permit.
(c) The emergency
medical technician plates shall be subject to a minimum prepaid order
of at least nine hundred (900) sets of plates per plate
type (i.e. passenger, commercial, etc.). Said
plates shall not be issued unless the minimum order
requirements are met. The initial order will
be handled by the Hope Valley Ambulance Squad, Inc., and
shall not be submitted to the division
of motor vehicles for production until the minimum
order(s) have been met, and the proper
paperwork submitted to the division.
(d) 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.
(e) The administrator
of the division of motor vehicles shall issue the plate upon the
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.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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