Florida Statute 588.16 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY

Chapter 588
LEGAL FENCES AND LIVESTOCK AT LARGE

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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.

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Cases Citing Statute 588.16

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Fisel v. Wynns

667 So. 2d 761

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 8, 1996 | Docket: 2430972

Cited 8 times | Published

damage sustained by any person by reason thereof. § 588.16, Fla.Stat. (1991). This Court in Selby v. Bullock

Manfre v. Shinkle

184 So. 3d 641, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 1534, 2016 WL 438227

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 5, 2016 | Docket: 60253342

Cited 1 times | Published

care was owed individually to her pursuant to' section 588.16, Florida Statutes (2008). That statute provides:

Dario v. Roth

756 So. 2d 262, 2000 WL 525908

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: May 3, 2000 | Docket: 471128

Cited 1 times | Published

to be disposed of as hereinafter provided." Id. § 588.16. To begin with, we agree with the sheriff that

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