Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part XXI - Animals and Animal Health › Chapter 19 - Turtles › Section XXI-1901 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. In addition to
				the definitions listed below, the definitions in
				R.S.
				3:2358.3 shall apply to these regulations.
Agent
-an authorized representative of the
				  Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Certified Laboratory
-a laboratory which has
				  a current certification or accreditation by the Federal Food and Drug
				  Administration or other national certifying or accrediting agency to perform
				  microbiological or residue testing of organic or inorganic samples and has a
				  microbiologist on staff, and has been approved by the Department of Agriculture
				  and Forestry.
Certified Turtle Farmer
-a Louisiana
				  individual, partnership, corporation or entity engaged in the breeding,
				  hatching, propagating, raising, growing, receiving, shipping, transporting,
				  exporting, distribution or sale of farm raised turtles and which have been
				  licensed by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Chain of Custody Form
-a document approved by
				  the department which verifies species, destination, origin, and turtle lot and
				  which is used for transporting turtles within the state of Louisiana
				  only.
Department
-the Department of Agriculture and
				  Forestry.
Exporter
-a person who is licensed by the
				  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to engage in the business of exporting groups of
				  turtles or groups of turtle eggs.
Farm-Raised Turtle
-any reptile of the order
				  Testudines which is bred, born, raised, or kept, by a licensed turtle farmer
				  within a closed circumscribed pond for the purpose of buying, selling, or
				  trading in commerce.
Farmer-Exporter
-a certified turtle farmer
				  that is also licensed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to engage in the
				  business of exporting groups of turtles or groups of turtle eggs.
Health Certificate
-a document which
				  certifies that the turtles or turtle eggs are free of visible signs of
				  infectious, contagious or communicable disease, and which is signed by a
				  veterinarian who is licensed in this state, federally accredited and approved
				  by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Licensed Turtle Farmer
-a person engaged in
				  the collection, hatching, sale or distribution of farm raised turtles or turtle
				  eggs.
Person
-any individual, partnership,
				  association, organization, or corporation engaged in any phase of the farm
				  raised turtle industry.
Quarantined Area
-any area or premises which
				  has been designated as quarantined by the department due to a finding of
				  contamination with
Salmonella spp.,
or other bacteria harmful
				  to other turtles or humans by a Louisiana licensed, accredited veterinarian or
				  agent of the department.
Turtle Farm
-any area of land or water used
				  to breed, raise or keep farm-raised turtles.
Turtle Lot
-any amount of turtles or eggs up
				  to 20,000 in number, and may be used interchangeably with the term turtle
				  group.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  3:2358.2.