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House Bill 1563c1




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997             CS/HB 1563

        By the Committee on Transportation and Representative
    Sindler





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to specialty license plates;

  3         amending s. 320.08056, F.S.; providing for a

  4         Florida Companion Animal license plate;

  5         providing for an annual use fee for such

  6         plates; amending s. 320.08058, F.S.; providing

  7         for the distribution and uses of the annual use

  8         fee; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Paragraph (s) is added to subsection (4) of

13  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, to read:

14         320.08056  Specialty license plates.--

15         (4)  The following license plate annual use fees shall

16  be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:

17         (s)  Florida Companion Animal license plate, $18.

18         Section 2.  Subsection (19) is added to section

19  320.08058, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, to read:

20         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

21         (19)  FLORIDA COMPANION ANIMAL LICENSE PLATES.--

22         (a)  The department shall develop a Florida Companion

23  Animal license plate as provided in this section to

24  commemorate Florida's companion animals. The Florida Companion

25  Animal license plate shall depict the silhouettes of a person,

26  a dog, a cat, and a horse within a heart and shall be produced

27  in the colors and design approved by the department, provided

28  that the words "We Care for Animals" shall be centered at the

29  bottom of the plate, with two silhouettes on either side.

30         (b)  The annual use fee proceeds shall be distributed

31  to the Florida Animal Health Foundation, Inc., a

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997             CS/HB 1563

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  1  Florida-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charitable

  2  educational and service organization. The Florida Companion

  3  Animal license plate annual use fee proceeds shall be used by

  4  the foundation for veterinary medical care of animals

  5  belonging to needy owners, neutering programs, animal shelter

  6  operations, overpopulation education, enforcement of animal

  7  control ordinances, cruelty investigations, promotion of

  8  human-animal bonds, foundation service programs, promotion of

  9  the license plate, and administrative purposes related to the

10  Florida Companion Animal license plate.

11         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

12  law.

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