Senate Bill sb1542

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1542

    By Senator Dockery





    15-931-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the reuse and recycling of

  3         campaign signs; creating s. 403.71853, F.S.;

  4         authorizing the Department of Environmental

  5         Protection to implement a pilot project to

  6         encourage the reuse or recycling of campaign

  7         signs; authorizing the use of funds from the

  8         Solid Waste Management Trust Fund; authorizing

  9         grants to large and small counties; providing

10         for the purpose of the grants; providing an

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

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15         Section 1.  Section 403.71853, Florida Statutes, is

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17         403.71853  Campaign sign reuse and recycling.--The

18  department may implement a pilot project to encourage the

19  reuse or recycling of campaign signs. The department may use

20  funds from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund to provide a

21  grant to at least two large counties and at least two small

22  counties to establish a central depository for used campaign

23  signs and to make such signs available, at no cost to the

24  receiving entity, to schools and other entities that may have

25  a use for them and to companies that can recycle the materials

26  from which the signs are made into new materials or products.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1542
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 3    Authorizes a pilot project to encourage reuse or
      recycling of campaign signs to be implemented by the
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      use of funds from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund.
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