R58-6-2. Definitions

(1) "Administrator' means the Administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or any person authorized to act for the Administrator.

(2) "Authorized agent" means a person designated to collect official samples for submission to an authorized laboratory.

(3) "Authorized laboratory" means a laboratory that meets the requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and is thus qualified to perform testing required to determine classification of poultry and to test for avian pathogens.

(4) "Authorized testing agent" means a person designated to collect official samples for submission to an authorized laboratory and to perform the stained antigen, rapid whole blood test for pullorum-typhoid.

(5) "Avian influenza" means an infection or disease of poultry caused by viruses in the family Orthomyxoviridae, genus Influenzavirus A.

(6) "Baby poultry" means newly hatched poultry (chicks, poults, ducklings, goslings, keets, etc.).

(7) "Dealer" means an individual or business that deals in commerce in hatching eggs, newly-hatched poultry, and started poultry obtained from breeding flocks and hatcheries.

(8) "Department" means the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

(9) "Exposed (Exposure)" mean contact with birds, equipment, personnel, supplies, or any article infected with, or contaminated by, communicable poultry disease organisms.

(10) "Flock" means all of the poultry on one farm.

(11) "Flock-based number system" means a flock-based number system which combines a flock identification number (FIN) with a producer's unique livestock production numbering system to provide a nationally unique identification number for an animal.

(12) "Flock identification number (FIN)" means a nationally unique number assigned by a State, Tribal, or Federal animal health authority to a group of animals that are managed as a unit on one or more premises and are under the same ownership.

(13) "Fowl typhoid or typhoid" means a disease of poultry caused by Salmonella Gallinarum.

(14) "Group/lot identification number (GIN)" means a identification number used to uniquely identify a "unit of animals" of the same species that is managed together as one group throughout the preharvest production chain.

(15) "Hatchery" means hatchery equipment on one premises operated or controlled by any person for the production of baby poultry.

(16) "Infected flock' means a flock in which an authorized laboratory has discovered one or more birds infected with a communicable poultry disease.

(17) "License" means a license issued by the Department to individuals that sell hatching eggs or poultry.

(18) "Live bird market" means a temporary facility or site that receives live poultry to be resold or slaughtered and sold on-site, not including any producer or grower that prior to the sale of his own birds slaughters or processes them on-site or at an approved slaughter facility or any producer or grower that sells live birds grown exclusively on his premises.

(19) "Multiplier breeding flock" means a flock that is intended for the production of hatching eggs used for the purpose of producing progeny for commercial egg or meat production or for other nonbreeding purposes.

(20) "National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP)" means a cooperative industry, state, and federal program through which new diagnostic technology can be effectively applied to the improvement of poultry and poultry products.

(21) "Person" means an individual, association, partnership, government agency, or corporation, or any agent of the foregoing.

(22) "Poultry" means domesticated fowl, including chickens, turkeys, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, waterfowl, game birds, doves and pigeons, which are bred for the primary purposes of producing eggs or meat or for exhibition or sport.

(23) "Premises identification number (PIN)" means a nationally unique number assigned by a State, Tribal, and/or Federal animal health authority to a premises that is, in the judgment of the State, Tribal, and/or Federal animal health authority a geographically distinct location from other premises.

(24) "Primary breeding flock" means a flock composed of one or more generations that is maintained for the purpose of establishing, continuing, or improving parent lines.

(25) "Public exhibition" means a public show of poultry.

(26) "Pullorum" mean a disease of poultry caused by Salmonella Pullorum.

(27) "Reactor" means a bird that has a positive reaction to a test for any poultry disease.

(28) "Sanitize" means to treat with a product which is registered by the Environmental Protection Agency as germicidal, fungicidal, pseudomonocidal, or tuberculocidal, in accordance with the specifications for use as shown on the label of each product.

(29) "Started poultry" means young poultry (chicks, pullets, cockerels, capons, poults, ducklings, goslings, keets, etc.) that have been fed and watered and are less than 6 months of age.

(30) "State Inspector" means any person employed or authorized to perform functions under the National Poultry Improvement Plan.

(31) "Stock" means a term used to identify the progeny of a specific breeding combination within a species of poultry. These breeding combinations may include pure strains, strain crosses, breed crosses, or combinations thereof.

(32) "Strain" means poultry breeding stock bearing a given name produced by a breeder through at least five generations of closed flock breeding.

(33) "Succeeding flock" means a flock brought onto a premises during the 12 months following removal of an infected flock.

(34) "Suspect flock" means a flock that has been exposed to a communicable poultry disease.