Florida Statute 585.671 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

585.671 Control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis.—

(1) The department shall formulate a program and promulgate all rules necessary for the successful implementation and administration of a comprehensive program for the control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis within this state. For this purpose, the department may conduct research.

(2) In the discharge of its duty, the department shall have the power:

(a) To employ such persons and to make such contracts as are necessary to carry out the purpose of this law.

(b) To negotiate with officials of institutions of research and to make such contracts as are necessary to conduct research for the purpose of developing and effectuating improved methods of diagnosis, control, and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis. Toward this end it may employ such competent guidance as it deems necessary in negotiating said contracts.

History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 63-442; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 41, ch. 90-321.

Cases Citing F.S. 585.671

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State Dept. of Agri. & Cons. Serv., Etc. v. Denmark, 366 So. 2d 469 (Fla. 4th DCA 1979).
Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal
...the presence of EIA but merely the presence of antibodies in the bloodstream. It is the position of the appellant that the antibodies are only present in those horses which are infected with the deadly EIA virus. This all began with the enactment of Section 585.671, Florida Statutes, (1975)....
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·State, Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., Div. of Animal Indus. v. Denmark, 366 So. 2d 469 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979).
Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1979 Fla. App. LEXIS 13926
...the presence of EIA but merely the presence of antibodies in the bloodstream. It is the position of the appellant that the antibodies are only present in those horses which are infected with the deadly EIA virus. This all began with the enactment of Section 585.671, Florida Statutes, (1975)....
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Deseret Ranches of Florida, Inc. v. State, Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., 392 So. 2d 1016 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981).
Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 18758
...One hundred twenty-four horses had positive reaction to this test and were quarantined. This caused appellant to institute the underlying action for declaratory and injunc-tive relief, alleging the rules pertaining to EIA are unconstitutional. Appellant also challenges section 585.671, Florida Statutes, as being an unlawful delegation of legislative authority to an administrative agency and an unlawful exercise of the state’s police power....

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Cases Citing F.S. 585.671

State Dept. of Agri. & Cons. Serv., Etc. v. Denmark, 366 So. 2d 469 (Fla. 4th DCA 1979).

·State, Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., Div. of Animal Indus. v. Denmark, 366 So. 2d 469 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979).

Deseret Ranches of Florida, Inc. v. State, Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., 392 So. 2d 1016 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981).