South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 12 - Department of Agriculture › Article 12:68 - Disease control and meat inspection › Chapter 12:68:01 - Definitions › Section 12:68:01:01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
Terms defined in SDCL chapters 40-3 through 40-33 have the same meaning
	 when used in this article. As used in this article:
(1) "Authorized testing agent" means a person
  employed by a hatchery to perform the pullorum typhoid test;
(2) "Baby poultry" means newly hatched
  poultry that have not been fed or watered;
(3) "Biological" means any product to be used
  in animals for the prevention or treatment of disease, including serums,
  vaccines, bacterins, and viruses, any parts of any of these, and any diagnostic
  testing materials for animal disease;
(4) "Blood test" means one of the following
  blood tests for pullorum typhoid: the standard agglutination test or the rapid
  serum test for all classes of poultry, or the stained antigen rapid whole blood
  test for all classes of poultry, except turkeys;
(5) "Boar" means male non-neutered swine over
  six months of age;
(6) "Board"
  means the South Dakota Animal Industry Board;
(7) "Bovine tuberculosis" means a disease in
  cattle caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis bovis;
(8) "Bovine tuberculosis eradication" means
  the complete elimination of bovine tuberculosis from cattle in a state, so that
  it does not appear unless introduced from another species or from outside the
  state;
(9) "Cattle" means domestic
  bovine animals of all ages;
(10)
  "Direct supervision" means the process of being under the direction and
  inspection of an agent of the board;
(11) "Direct to slaughter" means the shipment
  of livestock from the premises of origin to a slaughter establishment, without
  diversion to assembly points such as auctions, public stockyards, and
  feedlots;
(12) "Domesticated fowl"
  means any fowl that, through long association with man, has been bred to a
  degree that resulted in genetic changes affecting the temperament, color,
  conformation, or other attributes of the species, thereby making it unique and
  different from wild individuals of its kind;
(13) "Flock" means all poultry maintained and
  segregated for more than 21 days on one premises;
(14) "Hatchery" means buildings and equipment
  on one premises operated or controlled for the production of baby
  poultry;
(15) "Hatching eggs" means
  eggs produced by poultry to be used for hatching;
(16) "Herd" means a group of cattle
  maintained on common ground for any purpose, or two or more groups of cattle
  that are under common ownership or supervision, and geographically separated,
  but that have an interchange of cattle without regard to health
  status;
(17) "Herd depopulation"
  means the removal of all cattle on a premises direct to slaughter;
(18) "Official identification" means a manner
  of identification defined in 9 C.F.R. §
										86.1 (January 1,
  2021) or other means of marking livestock authorized by the board;
(19) "Multiplier breeding flock" means a
  flock that is intended for the production of hatching eggs used to proide baby
  poultry for commercial egg and meat production or for other nonbreeding
  purposes;
(20) "United States
  Department of Agriculture approved backtag" means a means of identification
  described in 9 C.F.R. §
										86.1 (January 1, 2021);
(21) "Certificate of veterinary inspection"
  means a document that has been designated by the state of origin as the form
  for certifying the health status of livestock exported from that
  state;
(22) "Owner" means the legal
  owner, the owner's agents, and the person in possession of or caring for
  livestock referred to;
(23)
  "Person" means a natural person, firm, or corporation;
(24) "Poultry" means all domestic and
  nondomestic fowl;
(25) "Primary
  breeding flock" means a flock that is maintained for the purpose of
  establishing, continuing, or improving parent lines;
(26) "Premises under quarantine" means a
  confined area under the direct supervision and control of a state livestock
  health official who establishes procedures to account for all animals entering
  or leaving the premises;
(27)
  "Registration tattoo" means an official registry tattoo number that has been
  recorded with a recognized breed registry association;
(28) "Sow" means a female swine over six
  months of age;
(29) "Started
  poultry" means poultry that have been fed and watered and are less than six
  months of age;
(30) "State
  inspector" means an authorized agent of the board;
(31) "Surveillance" means all measures used
  to detect the presence of disease in livestock;
(32) "Testing agent" means a person who is
  authorized by the board to perform the rapid whole blood pullorum typhoid test
  and collect specimens from poultry for diagnostic purposes;
(33) "U.S. pullorum typhoid clean" means
  flocks or fowl certified as meeting the U.S. pullorum typhoid clean standard,
  as prescribed in 9 C.F.R. Part 145 (January 1, 2021); and
(34) "Veterinarian" means a person who is
  licensed to practice veterinary medicine within the state and who is approved
  by the United States Department of Agriculture in accordance with 9 C.F.R.
  Subchapter J, Part 161 (January 1, 2021), to perform functions specified in
  9 C.F.R. §
										160.1 (January 1, 2021).
General Authority:
SDCL
		40-3-14.
Law Implemented:
SDCL
		40-3-14.