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. 828.13

828.13 Confinement of animals without sufficient food, water, or exercise; abandonment of animals.—

(1) As used in this section:

(a) “Abandon” means to forsake an animal entirely or to neglect or refuse to provide or perform the legal obligations for care and support of an animal by its owner.

(b) “Owner” includes any owner, custodian, or other person in charge of an animal.

(2) Whoever:

(a) Impounds or confines any animal in any place and fails to supply the animal during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food and water,

(b) Keeps any animals in any enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air, or

is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both imprisonment and a fine.

(3) Any person who is the owner or possessor, or has charge or custody, of any animal who abandons such animal to suffer injury or malnutrition or abandons any animal in a street, road, or public place without providing for the care, sustenance, protection, and shelter of such animal is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both imprisonment and a fine.

History.—ss. 2, 4, ch. 3921, 1889; RS 2510; GS 3396; RGS 5245; CGL 7364; s. 950, ch. 71-136; s. 1, ch. 81-17; s. 3, ch. 82-116; s. 203, ch. 91-224.

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Amendments to 828.13

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 828.13

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S828.13 - CONSERVATION-ANIMALS - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 6992 - M: F

S828.13 2 - CONSERVATION-ANIMALS - REMOVED - M: F

S828.13 2a - CONSERVATION-ANIMALS - IMPOUND CONFINE ANIMAL WO SUFFICENT FOOD WATER - M: F

S828.13 2b - CONSERVATION-ANIMALS - KEEP ANIMALS IN ENCLOSURE WO EXERCISE AND AIR - M: F

S828.13 2c - CONSERVATION-ANIMALS - ABANDON TO DIE ANIMAL SICK MAIM INFIRM DISEASE - M: F

S828.13 3 - CONSERVATION-ANIMALS - ABANDONMENT OF ANIMAL - M: F

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

B. BLOOM v. MIAMI- DADE COUNTY, a S. P. C. A. W. Jr., 816 F. Supp. 2d 1265 (S.D. Fla. 2011)

. . . . § 828.13, which provides that it is a misdemeanor to confine an animal and fail to supply a sufficient . . .

PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE v. GENERAL MILLS, INC. LLC, 283 F. App'x 139 (4th Cir. 2008)

. . . . § 3.1-828.13 (same); id. § 56-525 (same). . . .

ADVISORY OPINION TO ATTORNEY GENERAL RE LIMITING CRUEL AND INHUMANE CONFINEMENT OF PIGS DURING PREGNANCY, 815 So. 2d 597 (Fla. 2002)

. . . the same manner and authority as if a violation of this section constituted a violation of Section 828.13 . . .

PETERSON, v. STATE, 765 So. 2d 861 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

. . . . § 828.13, Fla. Stat. . . .

In WOODS FARMERS CO- OPERATIVE ELEVATOR COMPANY, DREWES Co- Co. v. A. CARTER, St. A. L. L. E. Co. Al W. O Co. v. FARMLAND MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., 107 B.R. 689 (Bankr. D.N.D. 1989)

. . . 28,562.00 275,905.87 23,015.07 234,945.34 81.87 Excess Bushels 8,372.58 46,712.56 11,780.91 7,249.97 828.13 . . .

HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, v. FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. U. S. CRTF SEGAL, M. D. v. FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. G. G. S. D. W. III, L. H. M. R. A. W. W. S. J. U. S. CRTF Co., 723 F. Supp. 976 (S.D.N.Y. 1989)

. . . Segal bought 100 Notes for $100,-828.13 on October 26, 1987, and he has brought this action on behalf . . .

STATE v. WILSON,, 464 So. 2d 667 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . The state alleged in Counts II and III of the information that appellee violated sections 828.13(2)(a . . . any animals in any enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air” as contained in sections 828.13 . . . frequently an animal must be exercised or when the air in the area of confinement must be changed, sections 828.13 . . . Section 828.13(2), Florida Statutes (1983), provides: (2) Whoever: (a) Impounds or confines any animal . . .

I. v., 45 T.C. 185 (T.C. 1965)

. . . at $39%o per share_$253, 671. 88 Less: Expenses_ 16, 843. 75 Gain taxable as ordinary income_ 236, 828.13 . . .

NEW YORK, N. H. H. R. CO. v. BALLOU WRIGHT, 242 F. 862 (9th Cir. 1917)

. . . petitioner in reparation of such damages in several specified sums, amounting in the aggregate to $828.13 . . . charged, the respondents should pay to the petitioner the specific sums amounting in the aggregate to $828.13 . . . would have paid at the first-class rate contemporaneously in effect, amounting in the aggregate to. $828.13 . . .