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US - AWA - Part 1. Definition of Terms. § 1.1 Definitions. | Animal Legal & Historical Center
Full Title Name: Code of Federal Regulations. Title 9. Animals and Animal Products. Chapter I. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture. Subchapter A. Animal Welfare. Part 1. Definition of Terms. § 1.1 Definitions.
Country of Origin: United States Citation: 9 C.F.R. § 1.1 Agency Origin: Department of Agriculture, APHIS Last Checked: August, 2017 Date Adopted: 1977 Last Date Amended: 2013
Act means the Act of August 24, 1966 (Pub.L. 89–544), (commonly known as the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act), as amended by the Act of December 24, 1970 (Pub.L. 91–579), (the Animal Welfare Act of 1970), the Act of April 22, 1976 (Pub.L. 94–279), (the Animal Welfare Act of 1976), and the Act of December 23, 1985 (Pub.L. 99–198), (the Food Security Act of 1985), and as it may be subsequently amended.
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Business year means the 12–month period during which business is conducted, and may be either on a calendar or fiscal-year basis.
Class “B” licensee means a person subject to the licensing requirements under part 2 and meeting the definition of a “dealer” (§ 1.1), and whose business includes the purchase and/or resale of any animal. This term includes brokers, and operators of an auction sale, as such individuals negotiate or arrange for the purchase, sale, or transport of animals in commerce. Such individuals do not usually take actual physical possession or control of the animals, and do not usually hold animals in any facilities. A class “B” licensee may also exhibit animals as a minor part of the business.
Class “C” licensee (exhibitor) means a person subject to the licensing requirements under part 2 and meeting the definition of an “exhibitor” (§ 1.1), and whose business involves the showing or displaying of animals to the public. A class “C” licensee may buy and sell animals as a minor part of the business in order to maintain or add to his animal collection.
Euthanasia means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that produces rapid unconsciousness and subsequent death without evidence of pain or distress, or a method that utilizes anesthesia produced by an agent that causes painless loss of consciousness and subsequent death.
[42 FR 31022, June 17, 1977, as amended at 42 FR 31561, June 21, 1977; 44 FR 36874, June 22, 1979; 44 FR 63490, Nov. 2, 1979; 54 FR 36119, Aug. 31, 1989; 55 FR 12631, April 5, 1990; 58 FR 39129, July 22, 1993; 62 FR 43275, Aug. 13, 1997;63 FR 47148, Sept. 4, 1998; 63 FR 62926, Nov. 10, 1998; 64 FR 15920, April 2, 1999; 65 FR 6314, Feb. 9, 2000; 68 FR 12285, March 14, 2003; 69 FR 31514, June 4, 2004; 69 FR 42099, July 14, 2004; 78 FR 57249, Sept. 18, 2013]
SOURCE: 54 FR 36119, Aug. 31, 1989; 58 FR 39129, July 22, 1993; 60 FR 64115, Dec. 14, 1995; 66 FR 21061, April 27, 2001, unless otherwise noted.