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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 828
ANIMALS: CRUELTY; SALES; ANIMAL ENTERPRISE PROTECTION
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F.S. 828.02
828.02 Definitions.In this chapter, and in every law of the state relating to or in any way affecting animals, the word “animal” shall be held to include every living dumb creature; the words “torture,” “torment,” and “cruelty” shall be held to include every act, omission, or neglect whereby unnecessary or unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused, except when done in the interest of medical science, permitted, or allowed to continue when there is reasonable remedy or relief; and the words “owner” and “person” shall be held to include corporations, and the knowledge and acts of agents and employees of corporations in regard to animals transported, owned, employed by or in the custody of a corporation, shall be held to be the knowledge and act of such corporation.
History.s. 10, ch. 4971, 1901; GS 3156; RGS 4982; CGL 7071; s. 2, ch. 86-179.

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Cases Citing Statute 828.02

Total Results: 8

In Re Standard Jury Inst. in Crim. Cases No. 2007-03

976 So. 2d 1081, 2008 WL 596805

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 6, 2008 | Docket: 1679907

Cited 57 times | Published

cruel death]. Definition, if cruel death charged. § 828.02, Fla. Stat. "Cruelty" ["Torture"] ["Torment"]

Wilkerson v. State

401 So. 2d 1110

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jul 16, 1981 | Docket: 1686509

Cited 18 times | Published

Animal is defined as "every living dumb creature." § 828.02, Fla. Stat. (1979). This definition excludes human

Kiper v. State

310 So. 2d 42

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 11, 1975 | Docket: 1682904

Cited 3 times | Published

that appellants' actions were in violation of F.S. 828.02 and F.S. 828.12. At the close of the plaintiff's

Mikell v. Henderson

63 So. 2d 508, 1953 Fla. LEXIS 1129

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 27, 1953 | Docket: 1375859

Cited 3 times | Published

in connection with Section 828.12, F.S.A. is Section 828.02, F.S.A., which is as follows: "In this chapter

Hynes v. State

1 So. 3d 328, 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 1957, 2009 WL 151099

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jan 23, 2009 | Docket: 60224842

Cited 2 times | Published

as well as “acts,” were equally proscribed. See § 828.02, Fla. Stat. (2007). The trial court then decided

In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES—REPORT NO. 2013-07

143 So. 3d 893, 2014 WL 3361905

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jul 10, 2014 | Docket: 400982

Published

Definition of “cruelty”, if cruel death charged. § 828.02, Fla. Stat. Only read definition for terms “Torture”

Ago

Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: May 6, 1994 | Docket: 3258995

Published

copartnership, association, or corporation. 3 Section 828.02, Fla. Stat. (1993). And see, Wilkerson v. State

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Apr 23, 1990 | Docket: 3255202

Published

1979). 11 91 C.J.S. Unnecessarily 504. 12 Section 828.02, F.S.