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...t, identify, treat or destroy, any infected, exposed, suspected or susceptible animal and any goods, products or materials that may carry contagion, or may quarantine on or in, for or against any premises, areas, or localities within the state * *" (§ 585.16, F.S.) and, (c) provide that the Commissioner is authorized to "Condemn and destroy any domestic animals, or other animals affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, or which have been exposed to or are suspected of...
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...ical Dictionary for Lawyers to mean “ * * * to inject or insert serums, vaccines or antigens for preventive or curative purposes”. Apparently, the parties in the trial court and in this court have overlooked the provisions of Sections
585.15 and
585.16, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. By Section
585.15, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., the Legislature defined certain dangerous transmissible diseases of animals as including hog cholera. Section
585.16, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., in part provides: “
585.16 Powers of board in connection with certain diseases' * *768 “Whenever any of the diseases enumerated in §
585.15 or any disease now or hereafter proclaimed by the Florida livestock board to be of a dangerous or transmissible nature, shall e...
...oard may, or through its representatives and agents, dip, examine, test, treat or destroy, any infected, exposed, suspected or susceptible animal * * (Emphasis added.) We read all of these statutes as being in pari materia but even if they were not, Section 585.16, Florida Statutes, F. S.A., is an enactment subsequent to Section 474.07, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., relied upon by the appellee and to the extent applicable to the matter before us would supersede the provisions of the earlier Act. It is clear from Section 585.16, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., that the Florida Livestock Board through its representatives and agents may “examine, test, treat or destroy” any animal susceptible of a dangerous transmissible disease which by the legislative definition includes hog cholera....
