Marine Industries Association Of Palm Beach County Inc

Boat parade: the palm beach holiday boat parade and toy drive is a premier event of the miapbc and gift to the community, which collects more than 10,000 toys for local families each year. The parade of dozens of decorated boats, led by a traveling fireworks display, navigates up the intracoastal waterway from north palm beach to the jupiter inlet lighthouse the first saturday of december each year.

Legislative and regulatory advocacy: providing a voice for the industrymiapbc carefully monitors, comments, supports or challenges government regulations or legislation that it has determined may have an impact on palm beach county's marine industry on the local, state and national levels. In addition to activism on the local level in palm beach county, our legislative committee, board of directors and government relations representatives in tallahassee and in washington d.c. Are focused on a wide variety of issues to ensure that marine businesses are protected, or can benefit from governmental policies or actions.