2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other vehicles
Chapter 31-26 - Accidents and Accident Reports
Chapter 31-26-6 - Drivers required to make written reports.


RI Gen L § 31-26-6 (2012) What's This?

§ 31-26-6 Drivers required to make written reports. – The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or in which the damage to property of any one person, including himself or herself, in excess of one thousand dollars ($1000) is sustained, shall, within twenty-one (21) days after the accident, forward a written report of the accident to the division of motor vehicles, on forms provided by the division of motor vehicles.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 23, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 31-26-6; P.L. 1966, ch. 128, § 1; P.L. 1968, ch. 185, § 2; P.L. 1974, ch. 142, § 1; P.L. 1975, ch. 64, § 1; P.L. 1982, ch. 40, § 1; P.L. 1987, ch. 48, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 124, § 1; P.L. 2002, ch. 253, § 1.)

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