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Lost or Damaged Registration or Plates

 

Lost Registration

If you have lost your registration certificate and need a duplicate, you must first complete the application (TR-1) form. The form must be signed by you and notarized, and your insurance information must be complete. The fee for a duplicate registration certificate is $18.50.

Mail the completed application with a check for $18.50 to RI Division of Motor Vehicles, 100 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860

 

Lost or Damaged Plates

If you have lost both plates, or have damaged plates, you must complete a plate change transaction.

If your current plates are damaged and you want to order a new set with the same registration numbers, please fill out a

Wave Plate Order form or Designer Plate Order form and mail it to RI Division of Motor Vehicles, 100 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI - Attention PLATES. When your plates are ready to be picked up you will be notified by mail. You must return the two damaged plates you currently have. If you have lost one or both plates, you must have a copy of a police report in order to cancel those plates.

You must send payment with your remake order - check or money order only - PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH.

Use this chart to figure the fees for a remake:

If You Now Have Plate Style: And You Wish to Purchase This Remake Style:
The Remake Fee Will Be:
Wave Wave
$31.50
  Mr. Potato Head
$41.50
  Sailboat
$46.50
Use this form  
Mr. Potato Head Wave
$31.50
  Mr. Potato Head
$31.50
  Sailboat
$46.50
   
Sailboat Wave
$31.50
  Mr. Potato Head
$41.50
Use this form Sailboat
$31.50

 

If you have lost both plates and wish to immediately obtain a set of plates, any registration number, you must provide the DMV with a police report in order to cancel those plates, then fill out the form below. The fee for this plate change is $21.50.

  • Fill out a TR-1 application
  • For a $21.50 fee (more if a vanity plate) you will receive your new plates, registration and expiration stickers.

 

For more information on vanity plates, specialty plates and fees, please click here.