Texas Administrative Code › Title 4 - AGRICULTURE › Part 2 - TEXAS ANIMAL HEALTH COMMISSION › Chapter 51 - ENTRY REQUIREMENTS › Section 51.1 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
(1) Accredited
				veterinarian--A licensed veterinarian who is approved to perform specified
				functions required by cooperative state-federal disease control and eradication
				programs pursuant to Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 160 and
				161.
(2) Animal--Includes
				livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, and exotic fowl.
(3) Assembly--Boarding stables, boarding
				pastures, breeding farms, parades, rodeos, roping events, trail rides, and
				training stables.
(4) Certificate
				of veterinary inspection--A document signed by an accredited veterinarian that
				shows the livestock, poultry, exotic livestock, or exotic fowl listed were
				inspected and subjected to tests, immunizations, and treatment as required by
				the commission. Certificates are valid for 30 days for all species.
(5) Cervidae--Deer, elk, moose, caribou and
				related species in the cervidae family, raised under confinement or
				agricultural conditions for the production of meat or other agricultural
				products or for sport or exhibition, and free-ranging cervidae when they are
				captured for any purpose.
(6)
				Commission--The Texas Animal Health Commission.
(7) Commuter Flock--A National Poultry
				Improvement Plan (pullorum-typhoid clean or equivalent) flock in good standing
				with operations in participating states that are under single ownership or
				management control whose normal operations require interstate movement of
				hatching eggs and/or baby poultry without change of ownership for purposes of
				hatching, feeding, rearing or breeding. The owner or representative of the
				company owning the flock and chief animal health officials of participating
				states of origin and destination must have entered into a signed "Commuter
				Poultry Flock Agreement."
(8)
				Commuter Cattle Herd--A herd of cattle located in two or more states that is
				documented as a valid ranching operation by those states in which the herd is
				located and which requires movement of cattle interstate from a farm of origin
				or returned interstate to a farm of origin in the course of normal ranching
				operations, without change of ownership, directly to or from another premise
				owned, leased, or rented by the same individual. An application for "commuter
				herd" status must be signed by the owner and approved by the states in which
				the herd is located. This status will continue until canceled by the owner or
				one of the signatory states.
(9)
				Commuter Swine Herd--A swine herd located in two or more states that is
				documented as a valid ranching operation by those states in which the herd is
				located and which requires movement of swine interstate from a farm of origin
				or returned interstate to a farm of origin in the course of normal ranching
				operations, without change of ownership, directly to or from another premise
				owned, leased, or rented by the same individual. An application for "commuter
				herd" status must be signed by the owner and approved by the states in which
				the herd is located. This status will continue until canceled by the owner or
				one of the signatory states.
(10)
				Directly--Moved in a means of conveyance, without stopping to unload while en
				route, except for stops of less than 24 hours to feed, water or rest the
				animals being moved, and with no commingling of animals at such
				stops.
(11) Equine interstate
				passport--A document signed by an accredited veterinarian that shows the equine
				listed were inspected, subjected to tests, immunizations and treatment as
				required by the issuing state animal health agency, and contains a description
				of the equine listed. The passport is valid for six months when accompanied by
				proof of an official negative EIA test within the previous six months.
				Permanent individual animal identification in the form of a lip tattoo, brand
				or electronic implant is required for all equine approved for the equine
				interstate passport. This document is valid for equine entering from any state
				that has entered into a written agreement to reciprocate with Texas.
(12) Equine identification card--A document
				signed by the owner and a brand inspector or authorized state animal regulatory
				agency representative that lists the animal's name and description and
				indicates the location of all identifying marks or brands. This document is
				valid for equine entering from any state which has entered into a written
				agreement to reciprocate with Texas.
(13) Exotic livestock--Grass-eating or
				plant-eating, single-hooved or cloven-hooved mammals that are not indigenous to
				this state and are known as ungulates, including animals from the swine, horse,
				tapir, rhinoceros, elephant, deer, and antelope families.
(14) Exotic fowl--Any avian species that is
				not indigenous to this state. The term includes ratites.
(15) Federally Approved Livestock Market--A
				livestock market under State or Federal veterinary supervision where livestock
				are assembled and has been approved under Title 9 of the Code of Federal
				Regulation, Part 71, Section 71.20.
(16) Interstate show--A show, fair, or
				exhibition that permits livestock and poultry from other states to enter for
				show or exhibition and be held in common facilities with Texas origin livestock
				and poultry of the same species.
(17) Livestock--Cattle, horses, mules, asses,
				sheep, goats, and hogs.
(18)
				Owner-shipper statement--A statement signed by the owner or shipper of the
				livestock being moved stating the location from which the animals are moved
				interstate; the destination of the animals; the number of the animals covered
				by the statement; the species of the animal covered; the name and address of
				the shipper; and the identification of each animal as required by the
				commission or the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
(19) Permit--A document recognized by the
				commission with specified conditions relative to movement, testing and
				vaccinating of animals which is required to accompany the animals entering,
				leaving or moving within the State of Texas.
(A) "E" permit--Premovement authorization for
				entry of animals into the state by the commission. The "E" permit states the
				conditions under which movement may be made, and will provide any appropriate
				restrictions and test requirements after arrival. The permit is valid for 15
				days.
(B) VS 1-27 (VS Form 1-27)--A
				premovement authorization for movement of animals to restricted
				designations.