New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 35 - CAPTIVE WILDLIFE USES › Part 7 - IMPORTATION OF LIVE NON-DOMESTIC ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH › Section 19.35.7.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Accredited laboratory"
A lab recognized for CWD testing by the
				New Mexico department of game and fish.
B.
"Animal health emergency"
A
				situation in which people or animals are at risk of exposure to infectious or
				contagious diseases as determined by the director.
C.
"APHIS"
Animal and plant
				health inspection service, United States department of agriculture.
D.
"Applicant"
Any person or
				entity that causes or submits a department application for
				importation.
E.
"Certificate
				of compliance"
An official department document declaring an applicant's
				ability to resume importation application eligibility.
F.
"Certified Herd"
A herd that
				has attained certified status as defined in the current USDA chronic wasting
				disease program standards.
G.
"Closed herd sales"
Sales of animals from a herd directly to the
				buyer in a manner that allows the buyer to transport the animals from the
				producer's premises directly to the buyer's premises without contact with
				animals from another herd, and without contact with other pens or transport
				facilities used by any other herd.
H.
"Chronic Wasting Disease"
or
"CWD"
is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of
				cervids.
I.
"CWD-Exposed
				Animal"
is an animal that is part of a CWD-positive herd, or that has
				been exposed to a CWD-positive animal or contaminated premises within the
				previous 60 months.
J.
"CWD-Exposed herd"
is a herd in which a CWD-positive animal
				resided within 60 months prior to that animal's diagnosis as
				CWD-positive.
K.
"CWD-Positive herd"
is a herd in which a CWD-positive animal
				resided at the time it was diagnosed and which has not been released from
				quarantine.
L.
"CWD-Suspect
				animal"
is an animal for which unofficial CWD test results, laboratory
				evidence, or clinical signs suggest a diagnosis of CWD, but for which
				laboratory results have been inconclusive or not yet conducted.
M.
"CWD-Suspect herd"
is a herd
				for which laboratory evidence or clinical signs suggest a diagnosis of CWD, but
				for which laboratory results have been inconclusive or not yet
				conducted.
N.
"CWD-Trace-Back
				herd"
is an exposed herd in which a CWD-positive animal has resided
				during the 60 months prior to the diagnosis.
O.
"CWD-Trace-Forward herd"
is a
				CWD-exposed herd that has received CWD-exposed animals from a CWD-positive herd
				during the 60 months prior to the diagnosis of CWD in the CWD-positive
				herd.
P.
"Dangerous
				animal"
An animal that due to its nature, biology or its behavior,
				including predatory or venomous animals, that may present a risk to the health,
				safety or well-being of the public or other animals including native wildlife,
				domestic pets or livestock.
Q.
"Department"
Shall mean New Mexico department of game and
				fish.
R.
"Director"
Shall mean the director of the department of game and fish.
S.
"Importer"
Any person or
				entity that causes an animal to be brought, transported or shipped into New
				Mexico with the exception of common mail carriers and delivery service
				providers during the course of their regular duties.
T.
"Invasive animal"
Any
				non-native animal, except protected wildlife, including any aquatic invasive
				species (AIS), whose introduction into New Mexico may cause or is likely to
				cause harm to the economy, environment, protected wildlife, human health or
				safety.
U.
"Isolation"
A period of time imported animals are separated and observed. The observation
				pen must have fences at least eight feet high. The isolation pen must prevent
				nose-to-nose contact with all wild ungulates during the observation
				period.
V.
"Mixed
				herd"
A herd comprised of animals from different sources and held to
				allow contact or commingling.
W.
"Mixed herd sales"
Sales from sale barns, auctions, private
				arrangements, or other facilities that allow joint penning or adjacent penning
				of animals from more than one closed herd, or otherwise facilitate or permit
				commingling, direct contact, or holding, boarding, or sharing the premises by
				more than one herd simultaneous or successively in time.
X.
"Non-domesticated animal"
For
				the purposes of this rule, any animal species that is wild by nature not listed
				as semi-domesticated or protected under chapter 17 NMSA, 1978.
Y.
"NPIP"
National poultry
				improvement program.
Z.
"Official Animal Identification"
A device or means of animal
				identification approved by USDA to uniquely identify individual animals
				nationally. The animal identification must include a nationally unique
				identification number that adheres to one of the following:
(1) national uniform ear tagging
				system;
(2) animal identification
				number (AIN);
(3) premises-based
				number system using a premises identification number (PIN) in conjunction with
				a livestock production numbering system; or
(4) any other numbering system approved by
				USDA for the identification of animals in commerce.