§463.86.  Prestige license plates; white tail deer

A.  The secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall, subject to the provisions of this Section, establish a prestige license plate that bears a logo with a picture of a white tail deer.  The license plate shall be restricted to passenger cars, pickup trucks, vans, and recreational vehicles.

B. The charge for this special license plate shall be ten dollars, which shall be assessed every two years, in addition to the regular license fee provided for in R.S. 47:463.  The department shall also collect a handling fee of three dollars and fifty cents for each license plate, which it shall retain to offset a portion of the administrative costs.

C.  The revenues realized from the additional ten dollar fee imposed pursuant to Subsection B of this Section shall be remitted to the state as provided by law. The state treasurer shall place an amount equal to the revenues collected pursuant to Subsection B in the Conservation Fund, after complying with the requirements of R.S. 56:10(B), and shall credit that amount to the "white tail deer account" which is created within the Conservation Fund pursuant to R.S. 56:10(B)(11).

D.  The secretary shall establish a white tail deer prestige license plate when he has received a minimum of one thousand applications for the license plate.

E.  The secretary shall establish rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of this Section.

Acts 2001, No. 663, §1.