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Disease Inspection, Control, and Eradication (Florida Statutes: Title XXXV Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animal Industry; Chapter 585 Animal Industry; Part II; ss. 585.01-585.68)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Florida
Document type
Legislation
Date
1941 (2018)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Livestock
Keyword
Animal health Pests/diseases Inspection Disinfection/disinfestation Hygiene/sanitary procedures Quarantine Transport/storage Internal trade Authorization/permit Processing/handling Data collection/reporting Offences/penalties Animal feed/feedstuffs Research Equine-animals
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This Part of Chapter 585 of the Florida Statutes provides for animal disease inspection, control, and eradication. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services of Florida may establish, maintain, and enforce quarantine areas within the state, or the entire state. The department may restrict, regulate, or prohibit the movement or transportation of animals found, determined, or suspected by it to be carriers of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, or of the vectors of such disease, into, from, and within such quarantine areas, when necessary for the prevention, control, or eradication of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease among domestic or wild animals, or for carrying out any of the other purposes of this Chapter. The Part further provides for the procedure for condemnation of animals and property by the department; cooperation with United States authorities and United States Department of Agriculture accredited private veterinarians; information concerning animal diseases; control of animal diseases; permit for transporting or hauling certain animals or animal products, and vehicle and container requirements; dangerous transmissible disease or pest as a public nuisance; powers of the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services of Florida in connection with certain diseases; care of animals with transmissible diseases and liability therefor; duty to report diseased animals; duty of practitioners of veterinary medicine and owners of animals to report dangerous transmissible diseases or pests; injection of pathogenic organisms into animals; rules for the sale of biological products intended for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes for animals; public notice of general quarantines; compliance with quarantine rules by the owners of animals and premises; injuring property used in the eradication of diseases of animals, etc; violation of quarantine regulations; the owner’s right to declaratory judgment; prohibition of garbage feeding unless sterilized; permitting of feeders of garbage; the requirement regarding the collection, transportation, and distribution of garbage; permit revocation; penalties for violation; animal disease diagnostic laboratory; animal research identifying information; control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis; and animals suspected of harboring biological or chemical residues; inspection, testing, and restriction of premises and animals, and notice to owners.

Full text
English
Website
www.flsenate.gov