Chapter 261
2022 -- H 7096
Enacted 07/02/2022

A N   A C T
RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES

Introduced By: Representative Deborah L. Ruggiero

Date Introduced: January 12, 2022

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:
     31-3-122 31-3-125. Special plate for the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.
     (a) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles is empowered to make available
special motor vehicle registration plates for the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association. The
plates shall be designed to reference the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.
     (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 plate.
     (c) The Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association motor vehicle plates shall be the same
size as regular motor vehicle plates and shall be designed by the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum
Association, in conjunction with the division of motor vehicles, with design approval by the Rhode
Island state police.
     (d) The Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association plates shall be subject to a minimum
pre-paid order of at least six hundred (600) sets of plates per plate type (i.e., passenger, commercial,
etc.). The Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association plates shall not be issued unless the
minimum order(s) requirements are met. The initial order will be handled by the Beavertail
Lighthouse Museum Association 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 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 Beavertail
Lighthouse Museum Association 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 Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association in furtherance of
its mission to preserve and protect the buildings of the Beavertail Lighthouse site and to maintain
and make available key aspects of Beavertails Beavertail’s history.
     (h) A ten-dollar ($10.00) surcharge for subsequent registration renewals shall be allocated
to the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.
     (i) In consideration of the receipt of funds from the registration of Beavertail Lighthouse
Museum Association license plates, the foundation must use any Rhode Island sourced funds in,
and for the benefit of, Rhode Island-based charitable organizations.
     (j) The Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association will be required to submit an annual
accounting report before such monies are distributed.
     (k) There shall be no refunds for early cancellation of Beavertail Lighthouse Museum
Association plates.
     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect six (6) months after passage.
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