§ 31-7-1. Right to operate on foreign registration. (a) A nonresident owner, except as otherwise provided in §§ 31-7-2 and 31-7-3, owning any foreign vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration pursuant to this title, may operate or permit the operation of that vehicle within this state without registering the vehicle in, or paying […]
§ 31-7-2. Vehicles transporting persons or property for compensation. A nonresident owner of a foreign vehicle operated within this state for the transportation of persons or property for compensation or for the transportation of merchandise, either regularly according to a schedule or for a consecutive period exceeding thirty (30) days, shall register the vehicle and […]
§ 31-7-3. Nonresidents carrying on business in state. Every nonresident, including any foreign corporation carrying on business within this state and owning and regularly operating in the business any motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer within this state, shall be required to register each vehicle and pay the same fees for it as is required for […]
§ 31-7-4. Reciprocity. The provisions of § 31-7-1 shall be operative as to a nonresident owner or operator only to the extent that, under the laws of his or her residence or licensing country, state, territory, or district, like privileges are granted to motor vehicle owners resident of and registered under the laws of this […]
§ 31-7-5. Suspension or revocation of rights of nonresidents. Whenever the division of motor vehicles shall suspend or revoke the right of any nonresident person to operate any motor vehicle, or to have operated any motor vehicle, owned by any nonresident upon the public highways of this state, it shall suspend or revoke that right […]
§ 31-7-6. Long arm jurisdiction. (a) The acceptance by a nonresident of the rights and privileges conferred by chapters 1 — 27 of this title, as evidenced by the operation of a motor vehicle by the nonresident, his or her servant or agent, or the operation by a nonresident, his or her servant or agent, […]
§ 31-7-7. Service on nonresident. (a) Service of process on a nonresident shall be made by leaving a copy of the process with a fee of five dollars ($5.00) in the hands of the administrator of the division of motor vehicles or in his or her office with some one acting in his or her […]
§ 31-7-8. Process fee as costs — Record of processes. The fee of five dollars ($5.00) paid by the plaintiff to the administrator of the division of motor vehicles, or in the administrator’s office, at the time of the service shall be taxed in the plaintiff’s costs if he or she prevails in the suit. […]
§ 31-7-9. Offenses — Nonresident bond posting. Every nonresident operator, who is charged by a member of the state police or by a member of the police department of any city or town of this state with a violation of any provision of chapters 14, 15, and 16 of this title, except for a violation […]
