§463.54.  Special prestige license plates; Wild Turkey Federation

A.  The secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall establish prestige license plates for motor vehicles, restricted to passenger cars, pickup trucks, and vans, which plates shall bear a logo with a picture of a wild turkey or the Wild Turkey Federation logo.

B.  The charge for this special license plate shall be twenty-six dollars, which shall be assessed every two years in addition to the regular fee charged under the provisions of R.S. 47:463.

C.  The revenues realized from the additional twenty-six dollar fee imposed by Subsection B of this Section shall be deposited immediately upon receipt in the state treasury.  After compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, and prior to money being placed in the state general fund, the state treasurer shall place an amount equal to those revenues in the Louisiana Wild Turkey Stamp Fund, after complying with the requirements of R.S. 56:10(B).  Five dollars of the funds raised from the license plate sales shall be used for the purpose of advertising the license plates and the remainder of the funds shall be used solely for turkey restocking and research purposes.

D.  The secretary shall adopt administrative rules to implement the provisions of this Section.

Acts 1997, No. 1158, §1; Acts 1999, No. 735, §1.