Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1508
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/19/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Infrastructure and Security (Taddeo)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 27 - 36
    4  and insert:
    5  vehicle. For purposes of this subsection, the term “police
    6  markings” means decals, stickers, distinctive paint schemes, or
    7  other markings attached or applied to a police vehicle which
    8  identify the vehicle as a police vehicle.
    9         (a) Law enforcement agencies, before consummating the sale,
   10  exchange, or transfer of a police vehicle, shall provide an
   11  official letter of notification to the purchaser, customer, or
   12  transferee confirming the fact that the vehicle has had the
   13  police markings removed.
   14         (b) Sellers and auction houses, before consummating the
   15  sale, exchange, or transfer of a police vehicle, shall provide
   16  an official letter of notification to the purchaser, customer,
   17  or transferee confirming the fact that the vehicle has had the
   18  police markings removed.
   19         (c)1. Sales, exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles
   20  between law enforcement agencies are exempt from the
   21  requirements of this subsection.
   22         2. Sales, exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles to
   23  members of the general public for the purposes of collection or
   24  display are exempt from the requirements of this subsection.
   25  However, upon the sale, exchange, or transfer of a police
   26  vehicle for either of those purposes, the seller, exchanger, or
   27  transferor shall provide a notice to the purchaser, customer, or
   28  transferee in substantially the following form:
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   30  USE OF THIS VEHICLE FOR THE DELIBERATE IMPERSONATION OF A PUBLIC
   31  OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE IS A FELONY OF THE THIRD DEGREE, PUNISHABLE
   32  AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 843.0855, FLORIDA STATUTES.
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35  And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete lines 6 - 11
   37  and insert:
   38         defining the term “police markings”; requiring law
   39         enforcement agencies to provide an official letter of
   40         notification that the police markings have been
   41         removed; requiring sellers and auction houses to
   42         provide an official letter of notification that the
   43         police markings have been removed; exempting sales,
   44         exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles between law
   45         enforcement agencies from specified requirements;
   46         exempting sales, exchanges, or transfers of police
   47         vehicles to members of the public for the purposes of
   48         collection or display from specified requirements;
   49         requiring that a specified notice be provided to
   50         certain purchasers, customers, and transferees;
   51         providing an effective date.