Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 978
       
       
       
       By Senator Fasano
       
       
       
       
       11-00871-10                                            2010978__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to specialty license plates; amending
    3         ss. 320.08056 and 320.08058, F.S.; creating a
    4         Fraternal Order of Police license plate; establishing
    5         an annual use fee for the plate; providing for the
    6         distribution of use fees received from the sale of the
    7         plate; providing an effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Paragraph (rrr) 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 be
   15  collected for the appropriate specialty license plates:
   16         (rrr) Fraternal Order of Police license plate, $25.
   17         Section 2. Subsection (70) is added to section 320.08058,
   18  Florida Statutes, to read:
   19         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
   20         (70) FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LICENSE PLATES.—
   21         (a)1. The department shall develop a Fraternal Order of
   22  Police license plate as provided in this section. The plate must
   23  bear the colors and design approved by the department. The word
   24  “Florida” must appear at the top of the plate and the words
   25  “Fraternal Order of Police” must appear at the bottom of the
   26  plate.
   27         2. The department may issue the plate only to an applicant
   28  who submits a notarized letter from the Florida State Lodge of
   29  the Fraternal Order of Police stating that the applicant is a
   30  member of the lodge in good standing or a member of a lodge
   31  member’s family, together with other fees and documents required
   32  for a specialty plate.
   33         (b) The annual use fees shall be distributed to the Florida
   34  State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, which shall retain
   35  all proceeds until the startup costs to develop and establish
   36  the plate have been recovered. Thereafter, the proceeds shall be
   37  distributed to the Florida State Lodge Memorial Foundation of
   38  the Fraternal Order of Police and used as follows:
   39         1. A maximum of 25 percent of the proceeds may be used to
   40  promote and market the plate, to administer the license plate
   41  program, and to pay administrative costs directly associated
   42  with the state Fraternal Order of Police Law Enforcement
   43  Memorial.
   44         2. The remaining fees shall be used by the foundation to
   45  fund projects, programs, or events related to the memorial or to
   46  fund improvements, maintenance, or other support for the
   47  memorial.
   48         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.