Florida Statute 585.08 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY

Chapter 585
ANIMAL INDUSTRY

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F.S. 585.08

585.08 General powers of the department; rules.—The Division of Animal Industry is authorized to:

(1) Establish, maintain, and enforce quarantine areas within the state, or the entire state. The department may restrict, regulate, or prohibit the movement or transportation of animals found, determined, or suspected by it to be carriers of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, or of the vectors of such disease, into, from, and within such quarantine areas, when necessary for the prevention, control, or eradication of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease among domestic or wild animals, or for carrying out any of the other purposes of this chapter.

(2) Adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce rules:

(a) Governing the introduction of animals into or within the state, which rules, when deemed necessary by the department, may require that all animals moved into the state be covered by an official certificate of veterinary inspection and requisite test chart approved by the chief livestock regulatory official of the state or country of origin; and

(b) Governing the disposal or destruction of carcasses of animals which are condemned or die from or while afflicted with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, in such manner as to prevent the spread or continuance of the contagion or infection.

(3) Condemn and destroy any animal affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, or which has been exposed to and is liable to spread any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease.

(4) Condemn and destroy any barn, yard, shed, corral, or pen which, in the opinion of the department, is liable to convey infection or contagion.

(5) Condemn and destroy any animal that is liable to spread any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease based upon sound epidemiological facts and conclusions to prevent the further spread of disease when a state or agricultural declaration of emergency has been declared by the Governor or the Commissioner of Agriculture.

History.—ss. 5, 11, ch. 7345, 1917; RGS 2105, 2110, 2111; s. 6, ch. 9201, 1923; CGL 3322, 3323(6), 3339, 3340; ss. 5, 6, ch. 17273, 1935; s. 4, ch. 23775, 1947; s. 2, ch. 25358, 1949; s. 3, ch. 59-457; s. 1, ch. 61-408; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 70-257; s. 1, ch. 87-151; s. 11, ch. 90-321; s. 9, ch. 96-231; s. 33, ch. 2002-295.

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Amendments to 585.08

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 585.08

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 585.08.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 585.08

Total Results: 7

JOSHUA CITRON v. H.G.C. AUTO COLLISION, INC.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2022-07-06T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: must be sold by the lienor at public sale.” § 713.585(8), Fla. Stat. The lien statutes are intended… claim of lien and notice of sale. See § 713.585(8), Fla. Stat. (“A vehicle subject to lien enforcement

Sunnyvale Maritime Co., Inc. v. Gomez

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1989-01-30T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 546 So. 2d 6

Snippet: quot; C. Ehrhardt, Florida Evidence § 902.1, at 585 *8 (2d ed. 1984). Accordingly, self-authentication

University Park Civic Ass'n v. Ansbacher

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1972-03-14T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 259 So. 2d 748, 1972 Fla. App. LEXIS 7155

Snippet: Supplement 135, 136. 1 Anderson, American Law of Zoning 585, § 8.11 (1968 Ed.). See also 101 C.J.S. Zoning, § 1

Conner v. Carlton

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1969-05-14T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 223 So. 2d 324

Snippet: , infectious, or communicable disease." (§ 585.08(4)) Sections 585.09 and 585.10 provide that such

In Re: Estate of Hewitt

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1943-06-08T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 13 So. 2d 904, 153 Fla. 137, 1943 Fla. LEXIS 567

Snippet: Justice Lamm in Hockaday v. Lynn, (Mo.) 98 S.W. 585, 8 L.R.A. (N.S). 117, a very scholarly historical

West v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1907-01-15T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 53 Fla. 77

Snippet: Fla. 479; Sullivan v. McMillan, 26 Fla. 543, text 585, 8 South. Rep. 450; Fields v. State, 46 Fla. 84, text

Fields v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1903-06-15T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 46 Fla. 84

Snippet: defendants.” Sullivan v. McMillan, 26 Fla. 543, text 585, 8 South. Rep. 450. We are but following the great