Title 31, Title 31 and Other Vehicles

(a)(1) Any person, firm, or corporation requiring a license pursuant to this chapter shall apply to the department upon a form specifying any information that the department shall require. The department may require with an application, or otherwise, information relating to the a…

A license provided for pursuant to this chapter may be denied, suspended, or revoked on any of the following grounds: (1) Proof of unfitness of applicant. (2) Material misstatement of applicant in the application for a license. (3) Because the applicant or licensee, or any subsid…

The department may, without prior notice, deny an application for a license within thirty (30) days of the receipt of an application, by written notice to the applicant stating the grounds for the denial. Upon a request by an applicant who is so denied a license, the department s…

No license shall be suspended or revoked except after a hearing. The department shall give the licensee at least five (5) days written notice of the time and place of the hearing, together with a statement of the grounds for the proposed action.

Any licensee or other person in interest being dissatisfied with an order of the department of revenue may file a petition for certiorari in the supreme court.

Any person, firm, or corporation who violates the provisions of § 31-5-33 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

No motor vehicle dealer shall engage in business as a dealer in this state without a license for it as provided in §§ 31-5-6 — 31-5-10. Any person, firm, or corporation who sells or acts as a broker with respect to the sale of more than four (4) vehicles in any one calendar year …

(a) Application for a license shall be made in duplicate to the licensor at the time and in the form and shall contain any information as the licensor shall require, and shall be accompanied by the required fee. (b) The licensor may require in the application, or otherwise, infor…

(a) Application for license shall be made to the department. Licenses shall be valid, unless sooner revoked or suspended, until December 31st of each year for one year and shall be renewable on or before expiration, upon application and payment of the fee required by this chapter…

(a) The license fee for each year shall be as follows: the fee for the license to each motor vehicle dealer shall be three hundred dollars ($300) plus a fee in like amount for each office or branch. (b) Commencing January 1, 2015, the license fee for the three-year (3) license du…

The licenses of dealers shall specify the location of the office or branch and must be conspicuously displayed there, and in case the location is changed, an application shall be filed with the licensor requesting the change in location and the permission of the licensor shall be…

The following registration fees shall be paid to the division of motor vehicles for the registration of motor vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers, and school buses subject to registration for each year of registration: (1) For the registration of every automobile, when equipped wit…

The following vehicles shall be exempt from registration: (1) Motor-propelled fire engines and other fire apparatus. However, the division of motor vehicles shall issue a permanent registration plate and certificate for each motor-propelled fire engine or fire apparatus for its l…

The fee for transfer of registration shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) if the vehicle to be registered is of the same fee-class as the original vehicle or less, but if the proper registration fee for the vehicle to be registered is greater than the amount of the fee paid for the …

The following fees shall be collected by the division of motor vehicles: (1) For each license to deal in motor vehicles and for each branch office of a dealer, sixty dollars ($60.00). (2) For dealer registration number plates and a dealer certificate, thirty dollars ($30.00) if t…

All fees collected under chapters 1 — 27 of this title shall be paid into the hands of the general treasurer to be credited to the general funds of the state.

(a) Whenever any application to the division of motor vehicles is accompanied by any fee as required by law, and the application is refused or rejected, the fee shall be returned to the applicant. (b) Whenever the division of motor vehicles, through error collects any fee not req…

(a) The division of motor vehicles may accept payment by credit card of all fees paid to the division of motor vehicles as provided by this chapter. (b) The division of motor vehicles shall determine which fees may be paid by credit card and the manner in which the payments may b…

For the purpose of computing fees based on gross weight, the gross weight shall, in the case of motor trucks, tractors, trailers, or semi-trailers, be the weight of the vehicle in pounds plus the weight of the maximum load to be carried. In the case of passenger motor vehicles, t…

In computing the fees for the registration of every tractor to be used in combination with a semi-trailer, the gross weight shall include the weight of the tractor, the weight of the semi-trailer to be used with it, and the weight of the maximum load to be carried.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this chapter or in any other provision of the laws of this state, the administrator of the division of motor vehicles may issue certificates of registration and plates for all the jitneys owned or operated by any carrier …

(a) If an application for registration of any motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer shall be made in the first quarter of the year appropriate to the individual’s registration expiration, or in the second quarter or the third quarter in any year, the fee for registration shall …

(a) No registration fee is required for the registration of motor-driven equipment owned by the following: (1) American Legion bloodmobile; (2) American National Red Cross or any of its chapters within this state; (3) American Red Cross, Jamestown chapter ambulance; (4) American …

Any nonprofit charitable organization shall be forever exempt from the payment of any fee for the annual registration of a certain type of motor vehicle commonly known and described as a motorized wheel chair. Any person designated, in writing, by a nonprofit charitable organizat…

(a) Any veteran who has been honorably discharged from the service of the armed forces or the Merchant Marine of the United States in any of the wars or campaigns in which the United States has been engaged and who, while engaged in these wars or campaigns or as a result of engag…

Any veteran who has been honorably discharged from service with the armed forces or the merchant marine of the United States in any of the wars, declared or undeclared, in which the United States has been engaged and who, by reason of that service, has become totally blind, shall…

(a) A nonresident owner, except as otherwise provided in §§ 31-7-2 and 31-7-3, owning any foreign vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration pursuant to this title, may operate or permit the operation of that vehicle within this state without registering the vehicle in, …

A nonresident owner of a foreign vehicle operated within this state for the transportation of persons or property for compensation or for the transportation of merchandise, either regularly according to a schedule or for a consecutive period exceeding thirty (30) days, shall regi…

Every nonresident, including any foreign corporation carrying on business within this state and owning and regularly operating in the business any motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer within this state, shall be required to register each vehicle and pay the same fees for it as…

The provisions of § 31-7-1 shall be operative as to a nonresident owner or operator only to the extent that, under the laws of his or her residence or licensing country, state, territory, or district, like privileges are granted to motor vehicle owners resident of and registered …

Whenever the division of motor vehicles shall suspend or revoke the right of any nonresident person to operate any motor vehicle, or to have operated any motor vehicle, owned by any nonresident upon the public highways of this state, it shall suspend or revoke that right for the …

(a) The acceptance by a nonresident of the rights and privileges conferred by chapters 1 — 27 of this title, as evidenced by the operation of a motor vehicle by the nonresident, his or her servant or agent, or the operation by a nonresident, his or her servant or agent, of a moto…

(a) Service of process on a nonresident shall be made by leaving a copy of the process with a fee of five dollars ($5.00) in the hands of the administrator of the division of motor vehicles or in his or her office with some one acting in his or her stead as the administrator of t…

The fee of five dollars ($5.00) paid by the plaintiff to the administrator of the division of motor vehicles, or in the administrator’s office, at the time of the service shall be taxed in the plaintiff’s costs if he or she prevails in the suit. The administrator of the division …

Every nonresident operator, who is charged by a member of the state police or by a member of the police department of any city or town of this state with a violation of any provision of chapters 14, 15, and 16 of this title, except for a violation included under chapter 41 of thi…

No person shall operate, nor shall an owner knowingly permit to be operated, upon any highway or bicycle trail or path, any vehicle required to be registered pursuant to this title unless there has been issued for it a valid registration card and unless there is attached to it an…

No person shall operate, nor shall an owner knowingly permit to be operated, upon a beach as defined by the coastal resources management council, any vehicle required to be registered by the coastal resources management council unless there has been issued a valid beach registrat…

No person shall operate, nor shall an owner knowingly permit to be operated, upon any highway, a motor vehicle the registration of which has been canceled, suspended, or revoked. Any violation of this section is a civil violation.

No person shall lend to another any certificate of title, registration card, registration plate, special plate, or permit issued to him or her if the person desiring to borrow it would not be entitled to its use. Nor shall any person knowingly permit its use by one not so entitle…

(a) The division of motor vehicles is authorized to suspend or revoke the registration of a vehicle or a certificate of title, registration card, or registration plate, or any nonresident or other permit, in any of the following events: (1) When the division of motor vehicles is …

The division of motor vehicles is also authorized to suspend or revoke a certificate or the special plates issued to a manufacturer, bailee, or dealer upon determining that this person is not lawfully entitled to it; has made or knowingly permitted any illegal use of those plates…

Whenever the division of motor vehicles as authorized pursuant to this title cancels, suspends, or revokes the registration of a vehicle, or a certificate of title, registration card or registration plate or plates, or any nonresident or other permit, or the license of any dealer…

Any person who drives a vehicle, not his or her own, without the consent of its owner or lessee, and with intent temporarily to deprive the owner or lessee of his or her possession of the vehicle, without intent to steal the vehicle, is guilty of a felony. The consent of the owne…

The division of motor vehicles shall at least once each week compile and maintain at its headquarters office a list of all vehicles which have been stolen, embezzled, or recovered as reported to it during the preceding week. Those lists shall be sent to the various police departm…

Any person who shall sell, offer for sale, purchase, or have in his or her possession keys or manipulative devices designed or adapted to operate the ignition switches, door locks, or trunk locks of two (2) or more motor vehicles, the ignition switches, door locks, and trunk lock…

(a) Any person who, with intent to procure or pass title to a vehicle which he or she knows or has reason to believe has been stolen or unlawfully taken, receives or transfers possession of the vehicle from or to another, or who has in his or her possession any vehicle which that…