Collier County Code sec. 14-36(2) flatly states no person shall engage in animal hoarding. Sec. 14-28 defines hoarding as failing to provide minimal sanitation, space, nutrition, or veterinary care while accumulating or keeping animals amid progressively deteriorating conditions.
Sec. 14-36(2) prohibits animal hoarding outright. Under the sec. 14-28 definition, hoarding is characterized by both failure to provide minimal standards of sanitation, space, nutrition, or veterinary care, and attempts to accumulate or maintain a collection of animals in the face of progressively deteriorating conditions. Domestic Animal Services may impound animals found cruelly treated under the ordinance or Florida law (F.S. 828.073). A person who violates the animal-care section forfeits the right to license additional animals in the county for one year.
Hoarding is cited under ch. 14 and can trigger impoundment of animals plus a one-year ban on licensing additional animals. Severe neglect may bring state animal-cruelty charges under F.S. ch. 828.
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