Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 585.671 (2025)

Control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis.

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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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1979–1981 · leading case: State, Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., Div. of Animal Indus. v. Denmark, 366 So. 2d 469 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979).
State, Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., Div. of Animal Indus. v. Denmark, 366 So. 2d 469 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979). “The trial judge determined from the testimony of expert witnesses that the test does not show 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…”
Deseret Ranches of Florida, Inc. v. State, Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., 392 So. 2d 1016 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981). · cites it 2× “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.”
State Dept. of Agri. & Cons. Serv., Etc. v. Denmark, 366 So. 2d 469 (Fla. 4th DCA 1979). “The trial judge determined from the testimony of expert witnesses that the test does not show the presence of EIA but merely the presence of antibodies in the bloodstream.”
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