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To: Saundra Duffy; cyn; Chocolate Rose; floriduh voter; MarMema

This is what happens to you in Florida if you do the same thing to an animal that they're doing to Terri.



828.13  Confinement of animals without sufficient food, water, or exercise; abandonment of animals.--

(1)  As used in this section:

(a)  "Abandon" means to forsake an animal entirely or to neglect or refuse to provide or perform the legal obligations for care and support of an animal by its owner.

(b)  "Owner" includes any owner, custodian, or other person in charge of an animal.

(2)  Whoever:

(a)  Impounds or confines any animal in any place and fails to supply the animal during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food and water,

(b)  Keeps any animals in any enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air, or

(c)  Abandons to die any animal that is maimed, sick, infirm, or diseased,

is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both imprisonment and a fine.

(3)  Any person who is the owner or possessor, or has charge or custody, of any animal who abandons such animal to suffer injury or malnutrition or abandons any animal in a street, road, or public place without providing for the care, sustenance, protection, and shelter of such animal is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both imprisonment and a fine.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0828/SEC13.HTM&Title=-%3E2004-%3ECh0828-%3ESection%2013#0828.13


3,241 posted on 03/19/2005 9:32:14 PM PST by Deo volente (God willing, Terri Schiavo will live.)
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To: Deo volente

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3,246 posted on 03/19/2005 9:45:45 PM PST by Chocolate Rose (FOR HONEST NEWS REPORTING GET THE SCOOP HERE : www.theEmpireJournal.com/)
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