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2020 Florida Statutes
SECTION 48
Policy and purpose of ss. 585.50-585.59.
Policy and purpose of ss. 585.50-585.59.
585.48 Policy and purpose of ss. 585.50-585.59.—Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of highly contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases in the animals of this state, which threaten their destruction or productivity, and because certain known agents and vectors are instrumental in the spread of certain highly contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases in animals, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary to regulate the feeding of garbage.
History.—s. 1, ch. 28313, 1953; s. 39, ch. 59-457; s. 34, ch. 90-321.