Rhode Island § 45-2-33 - General Powers

§ 45-2-33. Additional substance abuse prevention assessment.

(a) Each city, town, or municipal court shall impose, in addition to all other assessments, a substance abuse prevention assessment of thirty dollars ($30.00) to be levied against those speeding violations enumerated within §§ 31-41.1-4 or those violations of any city, town, or municipal ordinance, the essential elements of which are the same or similar to the offenses listed in §§ 31-41.1-4. The imposed and collected additional assessment of thirty dollars ($30.00) shall be forwarded by the city, town, or municipality to the office of substance abuse in the executive department, state of Rhode Island, within ten (10) business days of the close of the city’s, town’s, or municipality’s fiscal quarter. The department of health shall deposit the assessment into the general fund.

(b) Whenever there occurs a violation of any city, town, or municipal ordinance which purports to regulate the reasonable and prudent speed at which a vehicle may be driven on a road as “road” is defined in § 31-1-23, then, in addition to the fine and/or punishment imposed by the city, town, or municipal ordinance, the city, town, or municipal court shall impose an additional substance abuse prevention assessment, of thirty dollars ($30.00). The imposed and collected assessment shall be forwarded by the city, town, or municipality to the department of health, state of Rhode Island, within ten (10) business days of the close of the city’s, town’s, or municipality’s fiscal quarter. The department of health shall deposit the assessment into the general fund. The provisions of §§ 45-13-7 through 45-13-9 do not apply to this section.

(c) Whenever there occurs a violation of a city, town, or municipal ordinance for a motor vehicle offense other than those similar to the offenses listed within § 31-41.1-4 or standing violations proscribed by ordinance, the city, town, or municipal court, shall impose an additional substance abuse prevention assessment of thirty dollars ($30.00). The imposed and collected assessment shall be forwarded by the city, town or municipality to the office of substance abuse, state of Rhode Island, within ten (10) business days of the close of the city’s, town’s, or municipality’s fiscal quarter. The department of health shall deposit the assessment into the general fund.