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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 7
BY SENATORS PEACOCK AND BUFFI NGTON
MOTOR VEHICLES. Creates a prestige license plate for Sci-Port Discovery Center in
Shreveport. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 47:463.165, relative to motor vehicle special prestige license plates; to provide2
for the creation, issuance, and design of such license plates; to provide relative to the3
fee and distribution of such plates; to authorize the promulgation of rules and4
regulations relative to the creation and implementation of a special prestige license5
plate; and to provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 47:463.165 is hereby enacted to read as follows:8
ยง463.165. Special prestige license plates; Sci-Port Discovery Center in9
Shreveport10
A. The secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections11
shall establish a special prestige motor vehicle license plate for the Sci-Port12
Discovery Center in Shreveport provided there is a minimum of one thousand13
applicants for such plate. These license plates shall be restricted to use on14
passenger cars, pickup trucks, recreational vehicles, and vans.15
B. The secretary shall work in conjunction with the Sci-Port Discovery16
Center in Shreveport to select the color and design of the plate provided that it17 SB NO. 7
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is in compliance with R.S. 47:463(A)(3).1
C. The prestige license plate shall be issued, upon application, to any2
citizen of Louisiana in the same manner as any other motor vehicle license plate.3
D. The department shall collect an annual royalty fee of twenty-five4
dollars for this special prestige license plate that shall be disbursed in5
accordance with Subsection E of this Section. This fee shall be in addition to the6
standard motor vehicle license tax imposed by Article VII, Section 5 of the7
Constitution of Louisiana, and a handling fee of three dollars and fifty cents for8
each plate to be retained by the department to offset a portion of administrative9
cost.10
E. The annual royalty fee shall be collected by the department and11
forwarded to the Sci-Port Discovery Center in Shreveport. The monies received12
from the royalty fees shall be used solely for the support of programs13
administered by the Sci-Port Discovery Center in Shreveport.14
F. The secretary shall adopt rules and regulations as are necessary to15
implement the provisions of this Section.16
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles.
DIGEST
Peacock (SB 7)
Proposed law requires the secretary of the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to issue
special prestige license plates to be known as the Sci-Port Discovery Center in Shreveport
license plate.
Proposed law provides that the prestige license plate shall be issued, upon application, to any
citizen of Louisiana in the same manner as any other motor vehicle license plate.
Proposed law provides for the secretary to work in conjunction with the Sci-Port Discovery
Center in Shreveport to select the color and design of the plate.
Proposed law requires the department to collect an annual royalty fee of $25 for each plate
issued and specifies that such fees be collected by the department and forwarded to the Sci-
Port Discovery Center in Shreveport. Specifies that the monies received from the royalty
fees shall be used solely for the support of programs administered by the Sci-Port Discovery
Center in Shreveport. Further provides for the standard registration license fee and a
handling fee of $3.50 to be retained by the department to offset a portion of administrative
cost.
Proposed law requires the secretary to adopt rules and regulations to implement the SB NO. 7
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provisions provided in proposed law.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 47:463.165)