Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 302 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Chapter 22 - Livestock, Poultry, and Fish › Section 302 KAR 22:130 - Equine

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				246.030,
				257.020,
				257.030,
				257.080,
				9
				C.F.R. 161.1 -
				161.4
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				257.020 requires the Board of Agriculture to
				prevent, control, and eradicate any communicable disease of animals.
				KRS
				257.030(4) authorizes the
				board to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer any
				provision of KRS Chapter 257. This administrative regulation establishes
				requirements for movement, importation, and exhibition of equine in
				Kentucky.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Accredited veterinarian" means a
			 veterinarian accredited by the USDA in accordance with the provisions of
			 9
			 C.F.R. 161.1 to
			 161.4.
(2) "Animal health authority" means the
			 person or entity holding the title of state veterinarian or chief livestock
			 official in any particular state or region.
(3) "Book" or "booking" means the contracting
			 or scheduling of a mare to breed to a stallion.
(4) "Breeding" or "bred" means the natural
			 covering of a mare.
(5) "CEM" means
			 contagious equine metritis.
(6)
			 "CEM infected stallion" means a stallion proven or believed to be a carrier of
			 the CEM organism.
(7) "Certificate
			 of Veterinary Inspection" or "CVI" means an official document approved by the
			 chief animal health authority of the state of origin or by USDA APHIS VS to
			 verify the completion of a veterinary inspection by a licensed and USDA
			 accredited veterinarian.
(8)
			 "Certificate of Veterinary Inspection Reconsignment Form" means an official
			 document, on a form approved by the animal health authority of the state of
			 origin, that is attached to a valid CVI for the movement of animals from a sale
			 to the buyer's premises.
(9) "CF
			 test" means a complement-fixation test on equine serum for the detection of
			 specific antibodies to the contagious equine metritis bacterium.
(10) "Cover" means the act of breeding a
			 stallion to a mare.
(11) "Directly"
			 means moved by a means of conveyance, without stopping to unload while en
			 route, except for stops of less than twenty four (24) hours to feed, water, or
			 rest the animals being moved, and with no commingling of animals at
			 stops.
(12) "EAV" means equine
			 arteritis virus, the organism that causes the disease equine viral
			 arteritis.
(13) "EIA" means equine
			 infectious anemia.
(14) "EVA" means
			 equine viral arteritis, which is a communicable disease in equines.
(15) "EVA sero-negative" means a horse has
			 reacted negatively to a blood test for EVA.
(16) "EVA sero-positive" means a horse has
			 demonstrated a positive reaction in serum neutralization with a titer of
			 greater than one (1) to four (4) to a blood test for EVA.
(17) "EVA vaccinated" or "vaccination" means
			 an equine has been vaccinated with an approved EVA modified live virus vaccine
			 and the vaccination status has been kept current in accordance with the
			 manufacturer's recommendations.
(18) "Exhibition" means a fair, show,
			 exposition, rodeo, competition, trail ride, or racing event, any presentation
			 that might result in a transfer of ownership, or any presentation for
			 sale.
(19) "High risk mare" means a
			 mare that is culture positive or complement-fixation (CF) positive after being
			 bred to an CEM Infected stallion before stallion was removed from service and
			 treated.
(20) "Interstate movement"
			 means movement from one (1) state into or through any other state.
(21) "Intrastate movement" means movement
			 solely within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
(22) "Kentucky approved veterinarian" or
			 "KAV" means a licensed veterinarian who is accredited to do regulatory work by
			 the USDA and who has physically demonstrated proper swabbing and sampling
			 methods to a representative of the Office of the State Veterinarian.
(23) "Location identification number" or
			 "LID" means a nationally unique number issued by a state, tribal, or federal
			 animal health authority to a location as determined by the state or tribe in
			 which it is issued. The LID number can be used in conjunction with a producer's
			 own unique livestock production numbering system to provide a nationally unique
			 and herd-unique identification number for an animal. It can also be used as a
			 component of a group or lot identification number (GIN).
(24) "Maiden mare" means a female equine over
			 731 days of age that has not been covered by a stallion.
(25) "Mare" means a female horse over 731
			 days of age.
(26) "Medium risk
			 mare" means a mare that is CF negative and culture negative but bred to an CEM
			 Infected stallion prior to treatment.
(27) "Move" means to carry, enter, import,
			 mail, ship, or transport; to aid, abet, cause or induce carrying, entering,
			 importing, mailing, shipping, or transporting; to offer to carry, enter,
			 import, mail, ship, or transport; to receive in order to carry, enter, import,
			 mail, ship, or transport; or to allow any of these activities.
(28) "National Uniform Eartagging System" or
			 "NUES" means a numbering system for the identification of individual animals in
			 the United States that provides a nationally unique identification number for
			 each animal.
(29) "Office of State
			 Veterinarian" or "OSV" means that section of the Kentucky Department of
			 Agriculture in
			 KRS
			 246.030.
(30) "Official eartag" means an
			 identification tag approved by APHIS that bears an official identification
			 number for individual animals. Beginning March 11, 2014, all official eartags
			 manufactured bear an official eartag shield. Beginning March 11, 2015, all
			 official eartags applied to animals must bear an official eartag shield. The
			 design, size, shape, color, and other characteristics of the official eartag
			 will depend on the needs of the users, subject to the approval of the USDA
			 administrator. The official eartag is be tamper-resistant and has a high
			 retention rate in the animal.
(31)
			 "Official identification number" or "OID" means a nationally unique number that
			 is permanently associated with an animal or group of animals and that adheres
			 to one (1) of the following systems:
(a)
			 National Uniform Eartagging System (NUES);
(b) Animal identification number
			 (AIN);
(c) Location-based number
			 system (LID);
(d) Any other
			 numbering system approved by the Administrator for the official identification
			 of animals, including a group identification number;
(e) The animal's breed association tattoo
			 registration number, or freeze brand number that uniquely identifies the
			 animal, if accompanied by the registration documents; or
(f) Tattoo.
(32) "Owner" is defined by
			 KRS
			 257.010(11) and means any
			 person owning or leasing from another, or having in charge any
			 equine.
(33) "Person" means any
			 individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society,
			 joint stock company, or other legal entity.
(34) "Premises identification number" or
			 "PIN" means a nationally unique number assigned by a state, tribal, or federal
			 animal health authority to a premises that is, in the judgment of the state,
			 tribal, or federal animal health authority, a geographically distinct location
			 from other premises. The PIN can be used in conjunction with a producer's own
			 livestock production numbering system to provide a nationally unique and
			 herd-unique identification number for an animal. It can be used as a component
			 of a group or lot identification number (GIN).
(35) "Radio Frequency Identification Device"
			 or "RFID" means a device electronically encoded with a unique identification
			 and that meets the applicable International Standards Organization (ISO)
			 standards.
(36) "Set of CEM swabs"
			 means:
(a) For a female equine, a swab
			 obtained from the clitoral sinus and clitoral fossa; and
(b) For an intact male equine, a swab
			 obtained from the prepuce, the urethral sinus, and the fossa glandis, including
			 the diverticulum of the fossa glandis.
(37) "Shedder" or "shedding" means an equine
			 has been determined to have EAV in its body and is capable of transmitting the
			 EAV to other equine.
(38)
			 "Stallion" means a male horse, other than a gelding, over 731 days of
			 age.
(39) "USDA" means the United
			 States Department of Agriculture.
(40) "USDA APHIS VS" means the USDA, Animal
			 Plant and Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services.