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Fla. Stat. § 828.02 — Definitions
Current through 2025 Florida Statutes
Part of Chapter 828: Animals: Cruelty; Sales; Animal Enterprise Protection, Florida Statutes.
Full text of Fla. Stat. § 828.02
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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.
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