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Fla. Stat. § 588.16 (2025)

Authority to impound livestock running at large or strays.

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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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1996–2016 · leading case: Manfre v. Shinkle, 184 So. 3d 641 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016).

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Manfre v. Shinkle, 184 So. 3d 641 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016). · cites it 8× “§ 588.16, Fla. Stat. (2008). The intended purpose for enacting this statute belies the argument that the statute creates a duty of care to individuals like Shinkle rather than the public at large.”

Fisel v. Wynns, 667 So. 2d 761 (Fla. 1996). · cites it 2× “Every owner of livestock who intentionally, willfully, carelessly, or negligently suffers or permits such livestock to run at large upon or stray upon the public roads of this state shall be liable in damages for all injury and property damage sustained by any person by reason…”

Dario v. Roth, 756 So. 2d 262 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000). “§ 588.16. To begin with, we agree with the sheriff that the livestock law does not apply to wild deer.”

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