Seminole County has no standalone hoarding ordinance, but excessive animals in unsanitary conditions are addressed through care standards, nuisance rules, and Florida's animal-cruelty statute (FS 828.12).
There is no specific animal-hoarding section in Chapter 20, but hoarding situations are handled through several overlapping rules. Sec. 20.83 sets minimum care and housing standards for animals; the code's nuisance provisions cover odors, noise, and unsanitary conditions; and Florida Statute 828.12 makes it a crime to unnecessarily overload, deprive of necessary sustenance, or cause an animal to suffer. Aggravated cases with large numbers of neglected animals can be charged as felony animal cruelty under state law. Seminole County Animal Services investigates neglect complaints and can seize animals in cruelty cases.
Care-standard and nuisance violations draw county citations; cruelty or neglect is prosecuted under FS 828.12 as a misdemeanor or, in aggravated cases, a third-degree felony, with animal seizure.
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