Full Statute Name:  West's Florida Statutes Annotated. Title XLVI. Crimes (Chapters 775-899). Chapter 828. Animals: Cruelty; Sales; Animal Enterprise Protection.

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Primary Citation:  West's F. S. A. § 828.02 Country of Origin:  United States Last Checked:  October, 2023 Alternate Citation:  FL ST § 828.02 Date Adopted:  1901 Historical: 
Summary: The word "animal" shall be held to include every living dumb creature.

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.

CREDIT(S)

Laws 1901, c. 4971, § 10; Gen.St.1906, § 3156; Rev.Gen.St.1920, § 4982; Comp.Gen.Laws 1927, § 7071; Laws 1986, c. 86-179, § 2.

 

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