Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 4 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Subtitle 3 - DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY › Chapter 29 - DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER CARNIVORES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 4-29-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires
					 otherwise:
"Airport Animal Quarantine Holding Facility" is a facility
					 operated by the state department of agriculture at the airport designated for
					 the handling and holding of animals being imported into the State or destined
					 for transit more than twenty-four hours after their arrival
"Animals" means cats, dogs, and all animals in the order
					 carnivora.
"Animal port" means the facility that is operated by the
					 Hawaiian Humane Society and is located at the Honolulu International Airport in
					 the Airport Operational Area, which is used to hold animals, including birds
					 and other non-domestic animals, that are destined for transit out of the State
					 within twenty-four hours of their arrival.
"Animal quarantine manager" or "manager" means the manager
					 of the animal quarantine branch, division of animal industry.
"Animal quarantine station", also referred to as
					 "quarantine station" or "station", means the state animal quarantine facility
					 in Hawaii Valley that is used to quarantine dogs, cats, and other carnivores
					 under this chapter,
"Approved hospital" means any veterinary facility approved
					 by the department to provide care for quarantined animals.
"Board" means the state board of agriculture.
"Booster interval" means the licensed duration of immunity
					 of a vaccine; and the recommended time period for re-administration of a
					 vaccine, to increase or maintain immunity, listed on the manufacturer's label
					 or product insert.
"Carnivorous" means subsisting or feeding on animal
					 tissue.
"Carrier" means a person employed or engaged in the
					 activity of carrying goods for others for hire, by land, sea, or air.
"Chairperson" means the chairperson of the state board of
					 agriculture.
"Complete care" means a system relieving the State of all
					 responsibility to care for an animal, whereby an owner assumes the entire
					 responsibility to provide all feeding, cleaning, and monitoring of the health
					 and well-being of an animal in quarantine.
"Contact" means any physical union or touching between
					 animals, with or without aggression.
"Current", when referring to vaccine or vaccination, means
					 the period of time from the vaccine's administration to arrival in Hawaii has
					 not exceeded the licensed duration of immunity listed on the manufacturer's
					 label or product insert for that vaccine.
"Department" means the state department of
					 agriculture.
"Designated address" means an address at which the service
					 animal or exempted guide dog will reside while in the State during any portion
					 of the thirty-day post-arrival period.
"Diplomat" means Diplomat in a Specialty Board recognized
					 by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
"Disability", with respect to an individual, means a
					 physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the
					 major life activities of such individual; a record of such impairment; or being
					 regarded as having such impairment.
"Division" means the division of animal industry,
					 department of agriculture.
"Double door" means an entry vestibule having an outer door
					 and an inner door arranged such that at least one door is always closed during
					 the entry of visitors or employees.
"Effects" means crates used to transport carnivores, and
					 collars, leashes, chains, bedding, dishes, toys, or other objects that may
					 accompany any carnivore.
"Eligibility Date" or "Eligible Date" means the date
					 determined by the State that an animal may qualify for five day or less
					 quarantine by meeting all the specified requirements.
"Emergency" means any unanticipated, unexpected event which
					 reasonably necessitates a user to travel to the State on an urgent basis, such
					 that the user could not reasonably be expected to have the user's service
					 animal or exempted guide dog meet all pre-entry requirements.
"Entry" means the release of a dog, cat, or other carnivore
					 into the community after completion of all quarantine and post-quarantine
					 requirements set forth in this chapter.
"Exempted guide dog" means a guide dog that has graduated
					 from an approved guide dog training program and that works as a team with its
					 visually impaired user.
"Groomer" means a person who brushes, bathes, cleans, or
					 maintains the coat or integument of an animal within an animal quarantine
					 station.
"Guest" means a person allowed entry into the animal
					 quarantine station to visit a quarantined animal only when accompanied by an
					 owner, co-owner, or visitor.
"Guide dog" means any dog individually trained by a
					 licensed guide dog trainer for guiding a blind person by means of a harness
					 attached to the dog and a rigid handle grasped by the person.
"Handler" means a person employed or engaged in holding,
					 taking up, moving, or otherwise affecting the movement of animals
"HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"Inspector" means a veterinarian, livestock inspector, or
					 any officer or employee of the department of agriculture, authorized and
					 designated by the board of agriculture to enforce the provisions of this
					 chapter.
"International Unit" or "I.U." means a standard measurement
					 unit to express the results of an OIE serologic test approved to measure
					 anti-rabies virus antibody.
"Microchip" means an implantable micro-electronic device
					 that provides animal identification.
"Necessary medical treatment" means that which is directed
					 immediately to the cure or amelioration of the disease or injury.
"Neighbor Island" means the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai,
					 Lanai, and Moiokai.
"Neighbor Island Inspection Permit" or "NIIP" means a
					 permit issued by the division authorizing the transport, arrival, and entry of
					 an animal at a port or airport on a neighbor island and specifies the port or
					 airport, date of arrival, and identity of the animal and owner.
"Office of International Epizooties - rabies virus antibody
					 test" or "OIE- RVA test" means any state-approved serologic test used to
					 measure the levels of rabies antibodies in the serum of animals that has been
					 validated and certified as a test method by the Office of International
					 Epizooties.
"Order Carnivora" means any flesh-eating mammal under but
					 not limited to the family Canidae, Ursidae, Procyonidae, Mustelidae, Felidae,
					 Hyaenidae, and Viverridae.
"Original document" means a document which is not a
					 facsimile or a photocopy and bears an original or carbon signature.
"Owner" or "co-owner" means the person or persons whose
					 name appears on the shipmaster's declaration or a person designated in writing
					 by the owner to act in the owner's behalf and having the same duties and
					 responsibilities as the owner.
"Parking facility" means a lot, garage, building, or
					 structure, or combination or portion thereof, in which motor vehicles are
					 temporarily parked.
"Parking placard for persons with disabilities" means a
					 distinguishing placard issued to a person with a disability by a county upon
					 certification of disability pursuant to chapter 11-219, Hawaii Administrative
					 Rules, or by a foreign jurisdiction and bearing the international symbol of
					 accessibility.
"Parking space" means an area of space in a parking
					 facility that is used for parking one motor vehicle at any time.
"Parking space designated for persons with disabilities"
					 means any metered or unmetered parking space designated for the use of a person
					 with a disability, as defined in this section, and which conforms with the
					 Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, 41 C.F.R. 101-19.6, Appendix A, 4.6.2
					 and 4.6.3. These spaces shall be identified as reserved by a sign showing the
					 international symbol of accessibility and stating that a parkuig placard for
					 persons with disabilities, as defined in this section, is required.
"Potential human exposure" means the inflicting of any
					 wound on a person in which the skin is punctured or damaged in any manner by
					 the teeth of an animal.
"Qualification date" means the date determined by the State
					 that an animal may be released from quarantine by meeting all the specified
					 requirements under chapter 4-29, HAR.
"Quarantine" means confinement at an animal quarantine
					 station for a designated period pursuant to this chapter, or for a period
					 before export from the State as provided in this chapter.
"Rabies vaccine" means an inactivated rabies vaccine or
					 live recombinant rabies vaccine licensed by the United States Department of
					 Agriculture or equivalent foreign government agency when the vaccine is
					 administered outside of the United States.
"Safeguard" means to confine and handle animals so that the
					 animals shall not come into physical contact with any other animal, or cause a
					 potential human exposure, at any time. The location and method of confinement
					 and handling shall be approved by the state.
"Satellite quarantine station" means a facility, other than
					 the animal quarantine station, which holds a valid permit issued under section
					 4-29-12
					 and at which animals subject to quarantine may be housed.
"Service animal" means any dog that is individually trained
					 to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability,
					 including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental
					 disability. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly
					 related to the individual's disability. The work or tasks include but are not
					 limited to: assisting individuals who are blind or have low vision with
					 navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of
					 hearing to the presence of people or sounds, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an
					 individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence of allergens,
					 retrieving items such as medicine or the telephone, providing physical support
					 and assistance with balance and stability to individuals with mobility
					 disabilities, and helping persons with psychiatric and neurological
					 disabilities by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behavior.
					 The crime deterrent effects of an animal's presence, such as dogs with
					 "protection training" and the provision of emotional support, well-being,
					 comfort, or companionship do not constitute work or tasks for the purposes of
					 this definition.
"Service dog" means another term for service animal.
"Shipmaster's declaration" means an official state form
					 which shall be completed and submitted by a carrier and which provides
					 information on animals transported and the name of the owner or co-owner, or
					 both.
"Shipper" means a person who sends animals by any form of
					 conveyance.
"State" means the State of Hawaii,
"State veterinarian" means the veterinary program
					 administrator in the division of animal industry, department of
					 agriculture.
"Trainer" means a person employed or engaged in training or
					 utilizing the services of working animals.
"Transmissible disease" means any contagious, infectious,
					 or communicable disease of any carnivore.
"User" means any person with a disability who, because of
					 disability, relies upon the services of an exempted guide or service
					 animal.
"United States" means the states of the union, the District
					 of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin
					 Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of
					 the Northern Mariana Islands.
"Veterinary hospital" means an office or building
					 designated for the sole purpose of providing veterinary examinations,
					 diagnostics, and medical and surgical treatments of animals operated by a
					 veterinarian licensed to practice in Hawaii.
"Visitor" means the person or persons designated by the
					 owner to visit a dog, cat, or other carnivore at the animal quarantine station,
					 but not having the authority to act in the owner's behalf.