Virginia Administrative Code › Title 2 - AGRICULTURE › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › Chapter 150 - RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE TRANSPORTATION OF COMPANION ANIMALS › Part I - General Provisions › Section 2VAC5-150-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Animal holding area" means any part of the terminal
					 facility where animals are kept, maintained, or housed.
"Carrier" means the operator of any airline, railroad,
					 motor carrier, shipping line, or other enterprise which, for hire, engages in
					 the business of transporting animals.
"Commerce" means trade, traffic or transportation.
"Companion animal" means any domestic or feral dog,
					 domestic or feral cat, nonhuman primate, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit not raised
					 for human food or fiber, exotic or native animal, reptile, exotic or native
					 bird, or any feral animal or any animal under the care, custody, or ownership
					 of a person or any animal that is bought, sold, traded, or bartered by any
					 person. Agricultural animals, game species, or any animals regulated under
					 federal law as research animals shall not be considered companion animals for
					 the purposes of this chapter.
"Dealer" means any person who in the regular course of
					 business for compensation or profit buys, sells, transfers, exchanges or
					 barters companion animals. The following shall not be considered dealers:
(i) any person who transports
				  companion animals in the regular course of business as a common carrier or
(ii) any person or organization
				  whose primary purpose is to find permanent adoptive homes for companion
				  animals.
"Exhibitor" means any person who has animals for or on
					 public display, excluding an exhibitor licensed by the United States Department
					 of Agriculture. Such term includes carnivals, circuses, animal acts, and zoos
					 exhibiting such animals, whether operated for profit or not; but such term
					 excludes retail pet stores, organizations sponsoring and all persons
					 participating in state and county fairs, livestock shows, rodeos, purebred dog
					 and cat shows, and any other fairs or exhibits intended to advance agricultural
					 arts and sciences.
"Exotic animal" means any animal that is not a species
					 native to the United States.
"Handling" means petting, feeding, manipulating, crating,
					 shifting, transferring, immobilizing, restraining, treating, training, working
					 or performing any similar activity with respect to any animal.
"Humane society" means any chartered not-for-profit
					 organization incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth and organized for
					 the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals and promoting humane care and
					 treatment of animals.
"Intermediate handler" means any person, including a
					 department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States or of any state or
					 local government who is engaged in any business in which he receives custody of
					 animals in connection with their transportation in commerce.
"Pound" means a facility operated by the Commonwealth, or
					 any political subdivision for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized,
					 stray, homeless, abandoned or unwanted animals; or a facility operated for the
					 same purpose under a contract with any county, city, town or incorporated
					 society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
"Primary conveyance" means the main method of
					 transportation used to convey an animal from origin to destination, such as a
					 motor vehicle, plane, ship or train.
"Primary enclosure" means any structure used to immediately
					 restrict an animal or animals to a limited amount of space, such as a room,
					 pen, cage, compartment or hutch. For tethered animals, the term includes the
					 shelter and the area within reach of the tether.
"Terminal facility" means any building or structure, and
					 its grounds, which serves as a point of ingress to or egress from a primary
					 conveyance during transportation.
Statutory Authority
§ 3.2-6501 of the Code of Virginia.