(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 dangerous transmissible disease list shall, immediately upon gaining such knowledge, report the same to the State Veterinarian.
(2) No person who has knowledge that any animal is afflicted with or suffering from any such disease shall conceal or attempt to conceal such animal, or knowledge or evidence that such animal is afflicted with or suffering from any such disease, from the division or its agents and employees, or shall remove or attempt to remove such animal from the reach, care, or control of the department or its agents and employees.
History.—s. 8, ch. 7345, 1917; RGS 2108; CGL 3337; s. 11, ch. 59-457; s. 21, ch. 90-321; s. 15, ch. 96-231.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XXXV - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animal Industry
Part II - Disease Inspection, Control, and Eradication (Ss. 585.01-585.68)
585.08 - General powers of the department; rules.
585.09 - Procedure for condemnation of animals and property by department.
585.14 - Information concerning animal diseases.
585.145 - Control of animal diseases.
585.15 - Dangerous transmissible disease or pest a public nuisance.
585.16 - Powers of division in connection with certain diseases.
585.17 - Care of animals with transmissible diseases and liability therefor.
585.18 - Duty to report diseased animals.
585.20 - Injection of pathogenic organisms into animals.
585.21 - Sale of biological products.
585.22 - Public notice of general quarantines.
585.23 - Owners of animals and premises under quarantine to comply with rules.
585.38 - Injuring property used in the eradication of diseases of animals, etc.
585.40 - Violation of quarantine regulations.
585.45 - Right to declaratory judgment.
585.48 - Policy and purpose of ss. 585.50-585.59.
585.50 - Garbage feeding prohibited unless sterilized.
585.51 - Permitting of feeders of garbage.
585.52 - Requirement regarding the collection, transportation, and distribution of garbage.
585.59 - Penalties for violation.
585.61 - Animal disease diagnostic laboratory.
585.611 - Animal research identifying information.
585.671 - Control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis.