House Bill 4041

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 4041

        By Representatives Minton, Horan, Dawson-White,
    Betancourt, Heyman, Stafford, Effman, Ritter, Greene, Merchant
    and Sembler




  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to license plates; amending ss.

  3         320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; creating a

  4         Protect Wild Dolphins license plate; providing

  5         for the distribution of annual use fees

  6         received from the sale of such plates;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (t) is added to subsection (4) of

12  section 320.08056, Florida Statutes, to read:

13         320.08056  Specialty license plates.--

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

15  be collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:

16         (t)  Protect Wild Dolphins license plate, $20.

17         Section 2.  Subsection (20) is added to section

18  320.08058, Florida Statutes, to read:

19         320.08058  Specialty license plates.--

20         (20)  PROTECT WILD DOLPHINS LICENSE PLATES.--

21         (a)  The department shall develop a Protect Wild

22  Dolphins license plate as provided in this section. The word

23  "Florida" must appear at the top of the plate, and the words

24  "Protect Wild Dolphins" may appear at the bottom of the plate.

25         (b)  The annual use fees shall be distributed to the

26  Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., to fund wild

27  dolphins related research. The Harbor Branch Oceanographic

28  Institution, Inc., shall distribute available resources for

29  research of the wild Florida bottlenose dolphin. Up to 15

30  percent of the funds received by Harbor Branch Oceanographic

31  Institution, Inc., may be expended for administrative costs

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  1  directly associated with the operations of the institution. Up

  2  to 10 percent of the funds distributed may be used by Harbor

  3  Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc., for continuing

  4  promotion and marketing of the license plate. The remainder of

  5  the funds must be used to collect, analyze, and archive

  6  scientific data regarding the wild dolphin population in

  7  Florida waters; provide care and assistance to stranded wild

  8  dolphins; distribute information to the scientific community,

  9  federal, state, and local government agencies, educational

10  institutions, and the public for the purpose of protecting and

11  preserving wild dolphins; individually identify wild dolphins

12  through a photographic identification program; and advance the

13  research technology associated with tracking and categorizing

14  wild dolphins.

15         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

16  year in which enacted.

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19                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Creates a Protect Wild Dolphins license plate and
21    provides for distribution of annual use fees. See bill
      for details.
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