Title 31, Title 31 and Other Vehicles

(a) Purpose. To ensure that license holders have sufficient training and experience and to promote safe, responsible driving, persons under the age of eighteen (18) shall be granted driving privileges on a limited basis as follows: (1) Level 1 — Limited instruction permit. (2) Le…

A supervising driver must be the parent, guardian, licensed foster parent or adult or a certified driver education instructor. A supervising driver must be a licensed driver who has been licensed to drive for five (5) years.

A nonresident who is at least seventeen (17) years old but less than eighteen (18) years old, who has an unrestricted drivers license issued by that state, and who becomes a resident of this state may apply for and obtain within thirty (30) days of establishing residency one of t…

A limited instruction permit expires on the eighteenth (18th) birthday of the permit holder. A limited provisional license expires on the eighteenth (18th) birthday of the permit holder. A full operator’s license shall be issued and expires on the date pursuant to § 31-10-30. The…

It is unlawful for the holder of a limited learner’s permit, a temporary permit or a limited provisional license to drive a motor vehicle in violation of the restrictions that apply to that permit or license. Failure to comply with a restriction concerning time of driving or the …

The holder of a limited instruction permit is not considered a licensed driver for purposes of determining the inexperience operator premium surcharge pursuant to automobile insurance policies.

The division of motor vehicles may in its discretion issue a temporary driver’s permit to an applicant for a full operator’s license who has attained the age of eighteen (18). A temporary driver’s permit shall permit the applicant to operate a motor vehicle while the division of …

The administrator of the division of motor vehicles is authorized to issue a special form of motor vehicle operator’s license, at no fee, to any person serving in the armed forces of the United States who at the time of his or her entrance into the armed forces was a legal reside…

Whenever an armed forces special license shall become invalid by reason of expiration, the person to whom it was issued shall, within a period of three (3) years from the date of the expiration, be entitled to receive a regular motor vehicle operator’s license without submitting …

(a) The division of motor vehicles is authorized to cancel any operator’s or chauffeur’s license upon determining that the licensee was not entitled to its issuance pursuant to this title or that the licensee failed to give the required or correct information in his or her applic…

(a) Any person whose license or privilege to drive a motor vehicle on the public highways has been revoked or suspended shall not be entitled to have a license or privilege renewed or restored unless the revocation or suspension was for a cause which has been removed. After the e…

Upon the cancellation, suspension, or revocation of any license issued under chapter 10 of this title, the license shall be and become invalid for any purposes whatsoever and the license certificate shall be returned immediately to the division of motor vehicles.

Any resident or nonresident whose operator’s or chauffeur’s license, or right or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this state, has been suspended or revoked as provided in this chapter, shall not operate a motor vehicle in this state under a license, permit, or registration…

If any person whose license has been cancelled, suspended, or revoked neglects or refuses to surrender the license certificate to the division of motor vehicles immediately upon demand by it or by any of its authorized agents, the person, in addition to being subject to the other…

The division of motor vehicles upon suspending, canceling, or revoking a license shall require that the license be surrendered to and be retained by the division of motor vehicles. At the end of the period of suspension the license so surrendered may be returned to the licensee i…

Any person aggrieved by any order of the administrator of the division of motor vehicles may appeal that order to the sixth division of the district court by filing, within ten (10) days from the date of the notice to that person of the issuance of the order, a petition in that c…

It is a civil violation for any person: (1) To display, or cause or permit to be displayed, or have in his or her possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered operator’s or chauffeur’s license; (2) To lend his or her operator’s or chauffeur’s …

Any person who makes any false affidavit, or knowingly swears or affirms falsely to any matter or thing required by the terms of this title to be sworn to or affirmed, is guilty of perjury, and upon conviction shall be punishable by fine or imprisonment as applicable to other per…

(a) Any person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway of this state who never applied for a license, or who drives after his or her application for a license has been refused, or after his or her license has expired, or who otherwise drives without a license, or at a time when…

(a) Any person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway of this state who never applied for a license or who drives after his or her application for a license has been refused, or after his or her license has expired or who otherwise drives without a license or at a time when hi…

No person shall cause or knowingly permit his or her child or ward under the age of sixteen (16) years to drive a motor vehicle upon any highway.

(a) The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state given to a nonresident pursuant to this title shall be subject to suspension or revocation by the division of motor vehicles in the same manner and for the same cause as an operator’s or chauffeur’s licens…

No person shall authorize or knowingly permit a motor vehicle owned by him or her or under his or her control to be driven upon any highway by any person who is not authorized under this title or in violation of any of the provisions of this title.

No person shall employ as a chauffeur of a motor vehicle any person not then licensed as provided in chapter 10 of this title.

(a) The registered owner of any school bus used for the transportation of school children shall be responsible for insuring that any person operating the school bus is licensed as provided in chapter 10 of this title, and the failure of any driver to have the proper licenses and …

No person shall rent a motor vehicle to any other person unless the latter person is then duly licensed under this title or, in the case of a nonresident, then duly licensed under the laws of the state or country of his or her residence, except a nonresident whose home state or c…

No person shall rent a motor vehicle to another until he or she has inspected the operator’s or chauffeur’s license of the person to whom the vehicle is to be rented, and compared and verified the signature on it with the signature of the person written in his or her presence.

Every person renting a motor vehicle to another shall keep a record of the registration number of the motor vehicle so rented, the name and address of the person to whom the vehicle is rented, the number of the license of the latter person, and the date and place when and where t…

(a) The division of motor vehicles shall suspend the license of a person to operate a motor vehicle upon certification of the clerk of any county of the superior court or any supervising deputy clerk of the district court or a clerk of the traffic tribunal that the person has fai…

The division of motor vehicles is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any resident of this state or the privilege of a nonresident to drive a motor vehicle in this state upon receiving notice of the conviction of the person in another state of an offense in that state …

The license certificate issued under chapter 10 of this title is nontransferable, and if found in the possession of any person other than the licensee may be seized immediately by any proper officer and shall be returned by the officer immediately to the division of motor vehicle…

A full record shall be kept by every court in this state of every case in which a person is charged with violation of any provision of this title, or any act relative to motor vehicles, or to the operation of the vehicles. An abstract of the record shall be sent by the court to t…

The license of any chauffeur or operator shall be immediately revoked upon receipt by the division of motor vehicles of a record of the operator’s or chauffeur’s final conviction for any of the following offenses and the term of revocation shall be for the periods enumerated: (1)…

(a)(1) The division of motor vehicles is authorized to suspend the license of an operator or chauffeur without preliminary hearing upon a showing by its records or other sufficient evidence that the licensee: (i) Has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to have: …

(a) The division of motor vehicles shall suspend or revoke the license of a juvenile to operate a motor vehicle whenever the family court shall recommend the suspension or revocation, for any period of time as shall be recommended by the family court. (b) The license of any chauf…

The division of motor vehicles, having good cause to believe that a licensed operator or chauffeur is incompetent or otherwise not qualified to be licensed, may upon written notice of at least five (5) days to the licensee require him or her to submit to an examination. Upon the …

The provisions of chapters 12 — 27 of this title relating to the operation of vehicles refer exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon highways and on all state, city or town owned public property except: (1) Where a different place is specifically referred to in a given sect…

Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by chapters 12 — 27 of this title, except those provisions of those chapters which b…

The provisions of chapters 12 — 27 of this title shall be applicable and uniform throughout this state and in all political subdivisions and municipalities in the state, and no local authority shall enact or enforce any ordinance, rule, or regulation in conflict with the provisio…

(a) The provisions of chapters 12 — 27 of this title shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities with respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of the police power from: (1) Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles; (2)…

No ordinance or regulation enacted under subdivision (a)(4), (a)(5), (a)(6), (a)(7), or (a)(10) of § 31-12-12 shall be effective until signs giving notice of the local traffic regulations are posted upon or at the entrances to the highway or part of it as may be most appropriate.

No local authority shall erect or maintain any stop sign or traffic control signal at any location so as to require the traffic on any state highway to stop before entering or crossing any intersecting highway unless approval in writing has first been obtained from the state traf…

Nothing in chapters 1 — 27 of this title shall be construed to prevent the owner of real property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel by permission of the owner and not as matter of right, from prohibiting such use, or from requiring other or different or addition…

No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic, including any order or direction pertaining to fire lane parking violations whether on private or pu…

The provisions of chapters 12 — 27 of this title applicable to the drivers of vehicles upon the highways shall apply to the drivers of all vehicles owned or operated by the United States, this state, or any county, city, town, district, or any other political subdivision of the s…

Unless specifically made applicable, the provisions of chapters 12 — 27 of this title shall not apply to persons, teams, motor vehicles, and other equipment while actually engaged in work upon the surface of a highway but shall apply to the persons and vehicles when traveling to …