2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other vehicles
Chapter 31-23.1 - Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact
Chapter 31-23.1-2 - Legislative findings.
§ 31-23.1-2 Legislative findings. – The legislature finds that:
(1) The public safety necessitates the continuous development, modernization, and implementation of standards and requirements of law relating to vehicle equipment, in accordance with expert knowledge and opinion.
(2) The public safety further requires that those standards and requirements be uniform from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, except to the extent that specific and compelling evidence supports variation.
(3) The division of motor vehicles, acting upon recommendations of the vehicle equipment safety commission and pursuant to the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact, provides a just, equitable, and orderly means of promoting the public safety in the manner and within the scope contemplated by this chapter.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1963, ch. 43, § 1.)
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