Introduced By: Senators Enos, Paiva Weed, Igliozzi, Cicilline J., and Tocco
Date Introduced : March 19, 1999
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. -- {ADD (a) ADD} The registrar of motor vehicles shall have 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 thereon the official seals of the respective city in a manner that does not obstruct the numbering or lettering thereon.
{ADD (b) The registrar of motor vehicles is hereby authorized and directed to issue a special registration plate for the private passenger motor vehicle of each former speaker of the house of representatives and of each former majority leader of the senate. Each such plate is to bear the identification "house speaker emeritus" or "senate majority leader emeritus" with a seal of the state thereon imprinted and shall be financed without additional registration charge for such period of time as each former speaker and senate majority leader so desires. ADD}
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
