Can I Register My Car At Aaa In Ri?

PROVIDENCE, RI -- 12/16/2014 Chuck Hollis, assistant administrator at the DMV, will take over writing the Ask the DMV column. The Providence Journal/Sandor Bodo

Q: My girlfriend owns two vehicles, a 2013 Toyota RAV4 and a 1998 Nissan Maxima. She wants to transfer the registration plates from the Maxima to the Toyota, and vice versa. What forms do we need, where tin can nosotros get them, and tin I do the transaction at the DMV or at AAA on her behalf?

— Tom T., Central Falls

A: Your girlfriend volition need to do a "plate change" between both vehicles. This transaction can exist completed at any DMV or AAA office and the forms are available at these locations or at our website: www.dmv.ri.gov. On our website homepage, click on "Forms and Fees" then click "Registration Forms." Select "Application for Registration TR-ane." A checklist is also included to assist yous with required documents. Check the "plate change" box on the TR-i form and consummate the sections that are indicated for this type of transaction. Complete a TR-1 application for each transaction. Please bring the registration certificates for both vehicles and your commuter'south license. Your girlfriend must sign and appointment the TR-1 and her signature must be notarized if you lot plan to practise the transaction on her behalf and she is not present. The fee for each plate change transaction is $21.50 and is payable in cash, cheque, credit or debit card. AAA does this type of transaction for their members.

Q: Please explain the process for getting a handicap placard.

— Lisa East., Bristol

A: Applications for disability parking placards are bachelor on the DMV website or at any DMV location. Make full out the forepart of the awarding and have your physician consummate the back folio. Bring or mail the completed application to the DMV Headquarters at 600 New London Avenue in Cranston, RI 02920. The office is located on your right as soon as you come in the front doors. It can usually be processed for you correct at that place as long every bit all the paperwork is complete.

Q: I will be turning 74 years old presently and have decided I volition no longer demand my Grade A Commercial Driver'due south License. How do I substitution my CDL for a regular commuter's license? Practice I demand to go to Cranston or tin it exist done at whatever local DMV office?

— Richard G., Hopkinton

A: A CDL license can simply be downgraded at the Cranston DMV office, 3rd floor, CDL section. It'south equally simple equally bringing your license with yous and completing a downgrade affidavit in the presence of a DMV clerk. A new operator's license will be issued to you at the same time and there is no fee for the downgrade. In the future, you will exist able to renew your operator'south license at any DMV branch or AAA function if you are a member.

Q: My daughter is 16 years quondam and will exist getting her let to bulldoze in a few weeks. How long is the let valid for and tin information technology be renewed?

— Michael C., Smithfield

A: The permit will be valid until her 18th altogether at which time, nether present rules, it can be renewed for one year. Completion of the 33-hr Drivers Didactics Grade is required if under eighteen. If this course is completed through the CCRI, a knowledge test is not required because they will have tested her. Your girl simply makes application for the let at any DMV co-operative office, pays the fee, and she tin bulldoze as prescribed by the Graduated Licensing laws. If the course is completed out-of-country, the cognition test must be taken at the Cranston DMV office. This is the only DMV Co-operative that has an Exam Room to examination applicants. Either way, when applying for the allow, your daughter must be accompanied past a parent/guardian and she will demand to complete a License/Permit application (LI-1 form) that can be found on our website at www.dmv.ri.gov. A checklist of required documents will print out every bit well. Documents she volition demand include a certified copy of her nascency certificate, social security menu, proof of residency, and a commuter's education document if under 18. A checklist is available on our website that identifies alternate forms of identity and residency. The fee for her beginning permit is $11.50 and the renewal fee for a permit is $half-dozen.50.

— Charles "Chuck" Hollis is banana administrator for the Rhode Isle Division of Motor Vehicles. Please transport your questions to Inquire the DMV, c/o The Providence Journal, 75 Fountain St., Providence RI 02902 or electronic mail cars@providencejournal.com.