Florida Statute 588.16 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY

Chapter 588
LEGAL FENCES AND LIVESTOCK AT LARGE

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F.S. 588.16

588.16 Authority to impound livestock running at large or strays.—It shall be the duty of the sheriff or her or his deputies or designees, or any other law enforcement officer of the county, the county animal control center, or state highway patrol officers, where livestock is found to be running at large or straying, to take up, confine, hold, and impound any such livestock, to be disposed of as hereinafter provided.

History.—s. 5, ch. 25236, 1949; s. 2, ch. 77-200; s. 944, ch. 97-103; s. 33, ch. 99-391.

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