§ 588.16, Fla. Stat. · Chapter 588. LEGAL FENCES AND LIVESTOCK AT LARGE
Authority to impound livestock running at large or strays.
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Text — 2026 Florida Statutes
It shall be the duty of the sheriff or her or his deputies or designees, or any other law enforcement officer of the county, the county animal control center, or state highway patrol officers, where livestock is found to be running at large or straying, to take up, confine, hold, and impound any such livestock, to be disposed of as hereinafter provided.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
s. 5, ch. 25236, 1949; s. 2, ch. 77-200; s. 944, ch. 97-103; s. 33, ch. 99-391.
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