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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

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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Amendments to 828.02


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 828.02
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 828.02.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

HYNES, v. STATE, 1 So. 3d 328 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

. . . See § 828.02, Fla. Stat. (2007). . . .

In STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES- REPORT NO., 976 So. 2d 1081 (Fla. 2008)

. . . . § 828.02, Fla. Stat. . . .

CHURCH OF THE LUKUMI BABALU AYE, INC. v. CITY OF HIALEAH, 508 U.S. 520 (U.S. 1993)

. . . value,” §828.073(4)(c)(2); the infliction of pain or suffering “in the interest of medical science,” § 828.02 . . .

WILKERSON, v. STATE, 401 So. 2d 1110 (Fla. 1981)

. . . proscribed in view of the all-encompassing definition of animal as “every living dumb creature,” section 828.02 . . . .” § 828.02, Fla.Stat. (1979). . . .

D. KIPER v. STATE, 310 So. 2d 42 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1975)

. . . single witness, seeking to establish by that witness that appellants’ actions were in violation of F.S. 828.02 . . . plaintiff below, appellee here, failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence violation of F.S. 828.02 . . . Section 828.02, Florida Statutes, defines the words “torture,” “torment,” and “cruelty” to include “every . . .

MIKELL v. HENDERSON,, 63 So. 2d 508 (Fla. 1953)

. . . contended by the appellee that such fighting is cruelty to animals and is condemned by Sections 828.12 and 828.02 . . . Necessarily involved in connection with Section 828.12, F.S.A. is Section 828.02, F.S.A., which is as . . .

SOUTHERN SURETY CO. v. FT. SMITH DIST. OF SEBASTIAN COUNTY, 17 F.2d 63 (8th Cir. 1926)

. . . The amount which was lost by the appellant on warrants which it received and discounted, was $828.02. . . . also allowed a recovery against the defendant Greenwood district of Sebastian county for the sum of $828.02 . . .