Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 15 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Subtitle 11 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Chapter 15.11.11 - Salmonellosis of Poultry › Section 15.11.11.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. The following
				terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Commercial flock" means a flock whose
				eggs are distributed, offered for sale, or sold for human
				consumption.
(2) "Department" means
				the Maryland Department of Agriculture or its designee.
(3) "Exhibition" means displaying or showing
				poultry for competition or advancement of the species, including, among other
				examples, county and State fairs, farm shows, and breeding shows.
(4) "Flock" means all of the poultry on one
				premises, except any group of poultry that has been segregated for 21 days may
				be considered a separate flock by the Department.
(5) "Hatchery" means incubators, hatchers,
				and auxiliary equipment on one premises operated for the hatching or incubation
				of hatching eggs.
(6) "Junior
				exhibitor" means an exhibitor under 19 years old.
(7) "Multiplier breeding flock" means a flock
				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.
(8) "NPIP" means the
				National Poultry Improvement Plan of the United States Department of
				Agriculture (USDA), 9 CFR Parts 145 - 147.
(9) "Official establishment" means any
				establishment engaged in slaughtering or processing solely for intrastate
				commerce poultry and poultry products capable of use as human food and
				inspected under the Maryland Poultry Products Inspection Act, Agriculture
				Article, §
										4-201 et seq., Annotated
				Code of Maryland.
(10) "Official
				state agency" means the authority in each state recognized by USDA to cooperate
				in the administration of the National Poultry Improvement Plan.
(11) "Official state diagnostic laboratory"
				means a laboratory:
(a) Operated by the
				Maryland Department of Agriculture or by the Maryland Department of Health and
				Mental Hygiene; or
(b) Recognized
				and approved for poultry diagnostic activities by the chief livestock health
				official of any other state.
(12) "Person" means an individual,
				corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal entity.
(13) "Poultry" means live fowl, including,
				but not limited to, chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and game birds (for example,
				pea fowl, pheasants, chukars, partridges, quail, grouse, and guinea fowl, but
				not doves or pigeons).
(14)
				"Primary breeding flock" means a flock of one or more generations that is
				maintained for establishing, continuing, or improving parent lines.
(15) "Pullorum" means a Salmonella pullorum
				disease of poultry.
(16)
				"Pullorum-typhoid test" means a test recognized by the National Poultry
				Improvement Plan to test poultry for pullorum disease and fowl
				typhoid.
(17) "Secretary" means the
				Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary's designee.
(18) "Typhoid" means fowl typhoid, a
				Salmonella gallinarum disease of poultry.
(19) "U.S. Pullorum Clean" means a flock of
				poultry that has been found to be free by USDA of pullorum or typhoid under
				NPIP.
(20) "Waterfowl" means
				domesticated fowl which normally swim, such as ducks and geese.