Bill Text: FL S1508 | 2020 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Police Vehicles

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-22 - Chapter No. 2020-62 [S1508 Detail]

Download: Florida-2020-S1508-Enrolled.html

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    2         An act relating to police vehicles; amending s.
    3         319.14, F.S.; prohibiting a person from knowingly
    4         selling, exchanging, or transferring a police vehicle
    5         without removing any police markings from the vehicle;
    6         defining the term “police markings”; requiring law
    7         enforcement agencies to provide an official letter of
    8         notification that the police markings have been
    9         removed; requiring sellers and auction houses to
   10         provide an official letter of notification that the
   11         police markings have been removed; exempting sales,
   12         exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles between law
   13         enforcement agencies from specified requirements;
   14         exempting sales, exchanges, or transfers of police
   15         vehicles to members of the public for the purposes of
   16         collection or display from specified requirements;
   17         requiring that a specified notice be provided to
   18         certain purchasers, customers, and transferees;
   19         providing an effective date.
   20          
   21  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   23         Section 1. Present subsections (5) through (10) of section
   24  319.14, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (6)
   25  through (11), respectively, a new subsection (5) is added to
   26  that section, and present subsection (5) of that section is
   27  republished, to read:
   28         319.14 Sale of motor vehicles registered or used as
   29  taxicabs, police vehicles, lease vehicles, rebuilt vehicles,
   30  nonconforming vehicles, custom vehicles, or street rod vehicles;
   31  conversion of low-speed vehicles.—
   32         (5) A person may not knowingly sell, exchange, or transfer
   33  a police vehicle without, before consummating the sale,
   34  exchange, or transfer, removing any police markings from the
   35  vehicle. For purposes of this subsection, the term “police
   36  markings” means decals, stickers, distinctive paint schemes, or
   37  other markings attached or applied to a police vehicle which
   38  identify the vehicle as a police vehicle.
   39         (a) Law enforcement agencies, before consummating the sale,
   40  exchange, or transfer of a police vehicle, shall provide an
   41  official letter of notification to the purchaser, customer, or
   42  transferee confirming the fact that the vehicle has had the
   43  police markings removed.
   44         (b) Sellers and auction houses, before consummating the
   45  sale, exchange, or transfer of a police vehicle, shall provide
   46  an official letter of notification to the purchaser, customer,
   47  or transferee confirming the fact that the vehicle has had the
   48  police markings removed.
   49         (c)1. Sales, exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles
   50  between law enforcement agencies are exempt from the
   51  requirements of this subsection.
   52         2. Sales, exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles to
   53  members of the general public for the purposes of collection or
   54  display are exempt from the requirements of this subsection.
   55  However, upon the sale, exchange, or transfer of a police
   56  vehicle for either of those purposes, the seller, exchanger, or
   57  transferor shall provide a notice to the purchaser, customer, or
   58  transferee in substantially the following form:
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   60  USE OF THIS VEHICLE FOR THE DELIBERATE IMPERSONATION OF A PUBLIC
   61  OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE IS A FELONY OF THE THIRD DEGREE, PUNISHABLE
   62  AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 843.0855, FLORIDA STATUTES.
   63         (6)(5) A person who knowingly sells, exchanges, or offers
   64  to sell or exchange a motor vehicle or mobile home contrary to
   65  this section or any officer, agent, or employee of a person who
   66  knowingly authorizes, directs, aids in, or consents to the sale,
   67  exchange, or offer to sell or exchange a motor vehicle or mobile
   68  home contrary to this section commits a misdemeanor of the
   69  second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.
   70  775.083.
   71         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.