Opinion ID: 167840
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Heading: The International Registration Plan and the Dispute Resolution Committee.

Text: 3 IRP administers the International Registration Plan (Plan), a vehicle registration reciprocity agreement among U.S. states and Canadian provinces. The Plan allows commercial vehicle owners engaged in interstate commerce to register their vehicles in a single base jurisdiction, rather than registering separately in all jurisdictions through which their vehicles travel. The base jurisdiction allocates licensing or registration fees to other states and provinces based on the percentage of miles the vehicle traveled in those jurisdictions. The forty-eight contiguous states, the District of Columbia, and a number of Canadian provinces are members of the Plan. 1 4 Member jurisdictions adopted a charter authorizing the creation of a Dispute Resolution Committee (Committee or DRC); the Committee is empowered to exercise the IRP Board of Directors' (Board) authority to answer questions of Plan interpretation, resolve disputes, and enforce compliance with the Plan. Seven voting members sit on the DRC, 2 each of whom is appointed by the Board Chairman to serve a two-year term.