Escambia County has no separate 'hoarding' ordinance, but keeping animals without adequate food, water, air, and shelter is unlawful animal cruelty under Code § 10-16, which adopts Florida's cruelty statute F.S. § 828.13. Neglected or confined animals can be seized.
Hoarding cases in Escambia County are enforced through the animal-cruelty section, § 10-16. It is unlawful to confine any animal 'without supplying such animal with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food and water and air.' The ordinance also bans abandoning animals or failing to provide veterinary care, shelter, and ventilation, and it expressly adopts F.S. § 828.13, the state confinement/abandonment statute. Animal control may impound cruelly treated animals under § 10-5. Because there is no numeric pet cap, enforcement turns on the animals' living conditions rather than the number kept.
Animal cruelty is prosecuted under Code § 10-16; the adopted state statute F.S. § 828.13 makes confinement/abandonment neglect a first-degree misdemeanor (up to 1 year jail and $5,000 fine).
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