House Bill 1533c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998             CS/HB 1533

        By the Committee on Agriculture and Representatives
    Jacobs, Frankel, Rayson, Silver, Futch, Brown, Heyman,
    Lippman, Effman and Posey




  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to cruelty to animals; amending

  3         s. 828.12, F.S.; making certain types of animal

  4         exhibitions a crime; providing an effective

  5         date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Present subsections (2) and (3) of section

10  828.12, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (3)

11  and (4), respectively, and a new subsection (2) is added to

12  that section to read:

13         828.12  Cruelty to animals.--

14         (2)  A person who unnecessarily conducts, finances,

15  manages, or participates in a commercial animal exhibition in

16  which riderless horses, mules, or donkeys are encouraged or

17  required to fall or jump downward a distance of 10 feet or

18  more is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree,

19  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more

20  than $5,000, or both.

21         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1 of the

22  year in which enacted.

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