§ 31-3-112. Special plate for Gaspee Days Committee.
(a) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles is empowered to make available
special motor vehicle registration plates for the Gaspee Days Committee (hereafter
referred to as "the Gaspee Days committee�). The plates shall be designed to reference
the Gaspee Days 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 returned to the division
of motor vehicles. 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 plates.
(c) The Gaspee Days committee motor vehicle plates shall be the same size as regular motor
vehicle plates and shall be designed by the Gaspee Days committee, in conjunction
with the division of motor vehicles, with design approval by the Rhode Island state
police.
(d) The Gaspee Days committee 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.). The Gaspee Days committee plates shall not be issued unless the minimum order(s)
requirements are met. The initial order will be handled by the Gaspee Days committee
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.
(e) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles shall develop prepayment 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, the Gaspee Days
committee plates shall be subject to a forty-dollar ($40.00) issuance surcharge.
(g) The forty-dollar ($40.00) issuance surcharge shall be allocated as follows: Twenty
dollars ($20.00) shall be allocated to the general fund and the remaining twenty dollars
($20.00) shall be distributed annually to the Gaspee Days committee in furtherance
of its mission.
(h) A ten-dollar ($10.00) surcharge for subsequent registration renewals shall be allocated
to the Gaspee Days committee.
(i) In consideration of the receipt of funds from the registration of the Gaspee Days
plates, the foundation must use any Rhode Island sourced funds, in, and for the benefit
of, Rhode Island-based charitable organizations.
(j) The Gaspee Days committee shall be required to submit an annual accounting report
before such monies are distributed.
(k) There shall be no refunds for early cancellation of Gaspee Days committee plates.