Jimmy Buffett fans in Florida inch closer to getting license plate to honor late singer

Fans of Jimmy Buffett astir the satellite tin cruise down the road listening to songs astir wasting distant successful Margaritaville and chowing down connected a cheeseburger successful paradise, but successful Florida, fans person the enactment of honoring the precocious instrumentalist with a licence sheet connected the backmost of their vehicle.

In January 2024, the Florida Legislature approved 2 bills to grant Buffett, who died connected Sept. 1, 2023.

"Margaritaville is conscionable what Florida is each about," said Republican authorities Sen. Gayle Harrell, who sponsored 1 of the bills. "Jimmy Buffett is the icon of Florida. No 1 represents the unfastened sun, beaches, [and] euphony much than Jimmy Buffett and Margaritaville."

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Florida GOP authorities Sen. Gayle Harrell shows samples of a projected specialty licence sheet to grant iconic singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett successful Tallahassee, Florida, connected Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File)

One of the bills designated State Road A1A arsenic Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway, portion the different created a specialty licence sheet with the connection "Margaritaville," which is the rubric of the 1977 deed opus written by Buffett that has go a nickname for Key West.

As of Thursday, 2,199 Margaritaville licence plates had been ordered. In bid to scope the 3,000 pre-order requirement, 801 inactive needed to beryllium purchased successful advance.

Still, proceeds from licence sheet income volition spell to a foundation founded by Buffett, Singing for Change, and volition payment Florida nonprofits that assistance victims of hurricanes and different disasters, Harrell said.

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Jimmy Buffett performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival astatine Fair Grounds Race Course successful Louisiana successful 2014. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)

The Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles website has a fig of caller specialty licence plates disposable for pre-sale and displays the fig ordered and fig required to manufacture.

For example, a specialty sheet is connected pre-order for the MLS shot squad Inter Miami CF, and of the 3,000 required, 1,493 person been ordered frankincense far.

Other specialty licence plates see ones for the Florida State Beekeepers Association, which has 929 ordered; Honor Flight, which has 263 ordered; Cancer Research Matters, which has 111 ordered; and Down syndrome, which has 110 ordered.

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While galore Buffett fans person travel done to get the licence sheet person to reality, the question remains whether capable fans volition enactment their fins up and decorativeness the job.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.