Senate Bill sb1114

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1114

    By Senator Dockery





    15-720-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to wildlife; amending s.

  3         372.667, F.S.; prohibiting the feeding or

  4         enticement of alligators or crocodiles;

  5         providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Section 372.667, Florida Statutes, is

10  amended to read:

11         372.667  Feeding or enticement of alligators or

12  crocodiles unlawful; penalty.--

13         (1)  A No person may not shall intentionally feed, or

14  entice with feed, any wild American alligator (Alligator

15  mississippiensis) or American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus).

16  However, the provisions of this section does shall not apply

17  to:

18         (a)  Those persons feeding alligators or crocodiles

19  maintained in protected captivity for educational, scientific,

20  commercial, or recreational purposes.

21         (b)  Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

22  personnel, persons licensed or otherwise authorized by the

23  commission, or county or municipal animal control personnel

24  when relocating alligators or crocodiles by baiting or

25  enticement.

26         (2)  As used in For the purposes of this section, the

27  term "maintained in protected captivity" means held in

28  captivity under a permit issued by the Fish and Wildlife

29  Conservation Commission pursuant to s. 372.921 or s. 372.922.

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1114
    15-720-06




 1         (3)  Any person who violates this section commits is

 2  guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as

 3  provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

 4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 5  law.

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 8                          SENATE SUMMARY

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