§ 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,
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§ 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,
Space 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.