Florida Statutes Part II - Disease Inspection, Control, And Eradication (Ss. 585.01-585.68)
- 585.01 - Definitions.
In construing this part, where the context permits, the word, phrase, or term:(1) “Approved brucella vaccine” means a Brucella abortus immunization product approved and licensed by...
- 585.08 - General Powers Of The Department; Rules.
The Division of Animal Industry is authorized to:(1) Establish, maintain, and enforce quarantine areas within the state, or the entire state. The department may restrict, regulate,...
- 585.09 - Procedure For Condemnation Of Animals And Property By Department.
Condemnation and destruction of animals, barns, yards, sheds, corrals, and pens, as provided in s. 585.08, shall take place only after a fair appraisal of...
- 585.11 - Cooperation With United States Authorities And United States Department Of Agriculture Accredited Private Veterinarians.
The department may cooperate with:(1) The authorities of the United States in the enforcement of all acts of Congress for the control, prevention, suppression, and eradication...
- 585.14 - Information Concerning Animal Diseases.
The department shall collect, preserve, and disseminate information concerning infectious, contagious, communicable, and other diseases of animals, their origin, locality, nature, appearance, manner of dissemination...
- 585.145 - Control Of Animal Diseases.
(1) The department shall take such measures as may be necessary and proper for the control, suppression, eradication, and prevention of the spread of contagious, infectious,...
- 585.147 - Permit For Transporting Or Hauling Certain Animals Or Animal Products; Vehicle And Container Requirements.
(1) No person shall engage in the business of transporting or hauling any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animal; any product of an animal that died...
- 585.15 - Dangerous Transmissible Disease Or Pest A Public Nuisance.
The department may declare by rule that a certain pest or disease of animals is a public nuisance. When a pest or disease is thus...
- 585.16 - Powers Of Division In Connection With Certain Diseases.
Whenever the department determines, pursuant to s. 585.15, that a pest or disease is dangerous and transmissible, or whenever the department determines it necessary or...
- 585.17 - Care Of Animals With Transmissible Diseases And Liability Therefor.
(1) No person shall knowingly sell or offer for sale, or knowingly or willfully transport or move, or knowingly or willfully allow or permit any animal...
- 585.18 - Duty To Report Diseased Animals.
(1) Any person who has knowledge of the existence in or among animals of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease which is included on the department’s...
- 585.19 - Duty Of Practitioners Of Veterinary Medicine And Owners Of Animals To Report Dangerous Transmissible Diseases Or Pests; Penalty.
(1) Any practitioner of veterinary medicine who knows or suspects that an animal is afflicted with or suffering from a disease or pest designated on the...
- 585.20 - Injection Of Pathogenic Organisms Into Animals.
No person shall inject or otherwise administer to any animal that may be used as food for humans or whose products may be used as...
- 585.21 - Sale Of Biological Products.
(1) Each biological product intended for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes for animals which is manufactured for sale or sold in the state shall first be officially...
- 585.22 - Public Notice Of General Quarantines.
The department shall give public notice whenever it places any area of the state under general quarantine. The notice shall in general terms define the...
- 585.23 - Owners Of Animals And Premises Under Quarantine To Comply With Rules.
All persons in charge of quarantined animals, and all owners in possession of any lot, yard, pasture, field, stall, enclosure, barn, or building which has...
- 585.38 - Injuring Property Used In The Eradication Of Diseases Of Animals, Etc.
Any person who shall injure, destroy, or attempt to destroy any property or equipment or facilities owned by any person or county or any property...
- 585.40 - Violation Of Quarantine Regulations.
Whenever the department issues a quarantine, it shall be unlawful for any person, while such quarantine exists, to take, drive, or transport any animal into...
- 585.45 - Right To Declaratory Judgment.
Any owner or custodian of any animal which the department has required to be inspected, tested, treated, or quarantined shall have the right to a...
- 585.48 - Policy And Purpose Of Ss. 585.50-585.59.
Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of highly contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases in the animals of this state, which threaten...
- 585.50 - Garbage Feeding Prohibited Unless Sterilized.
It shall be unlawful for any person to feed garbage to animals unless such garbage has been heated, cooked, treated, or processed under such temperature,...
- 585.51 - Permitting Of Feeders Of Garbage.
No person shall feed garbage without first having applied for and obtained a permit from the department. Each permit shall expire as of July 1...
- 585.52 - Requirement Regarding The Collection, Transportation, And Distribution Of Garbage.
Every permitted feeder of garbage shall keep and furnish the department such information as it may require regarding the collection, transportation, distribution, and processing of...
- 585.53 - Permit Revocation.
Every permitted feeder of garbage who shall violate this chapter or the rules promulgated by the department pursuant thereto shall have her or his permit...
- 585.59 - Penalties For Violation.
In addition to the penalties provided by this chapter, any person who is convicted of a violation of the provisions of ss. 585.48-585.53 shall not...
- 585.61 - Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.
(1) There is established an animal disease diagnostic laboratory in Osceola County designated as the “Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.”(2) The construction and operation of the laboratory...
- 585.611 - Animal Research Identifying Information.
(1) Personal identifying information of a person employed by, under contract with, or volunteering for a public research facility, including a state university, that conducts animal...
- 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...
- 585.68 - Animals Suspected Of Harboring Biological Or Chemical Residues; Inspection, Testing, And Restriction Of Premises And Animals; Notice To Owners.
(1) The department or its duly authorized representatives are hereby authorized to enter, inspect, and test any premises and animals where such animals exist, which are...
Last modified: September 23, 2016