Texas Administrative Code › Title 4 - AGRICULTURE › Part 2 - TEXAS ANIMAL HEALTH COMMISSION › Chapter 54 - DOMESTIC AND EXOTIC FOWL REGISTRATION › Section 54.1 - 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) "Baby poultry"--Any
				newly hatched poultry that has not been fed or watered.
(2) "Caretaker"--A person who is the owner or
				lessee of a pen, or other place on which fowl are located and has control of
				that place, or who exercises care or control over fowl.
(3) "Distributor"--Any person engaged in
				sales and/or movement of live domestic or exotic fowl between a production
				system and a live bird market or fowl market or acquires domestic or exotic
				fowl from multiple flocks or geographic areas for resale to another
				person.
(4) "Domestic Fowl"--Any
				species of fowl domestically propagated and maintained for food, eggs, or
				agricultural exhibition and recreation. Domestic Fowl includes, but is not
				limited to, the various domesticated breeds of chickens (Gallus gallus
				domesticus), turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), Domestic Mallard ducks (Anas
				platyrhynchos domesticus), Muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata domesticus),
				Domestic geese (Anser anser domesticus).
(5) "Exotic fowl"--Any avian species that is
				not indigenous to Texas, and normally used for non-agricultural purposes, such
				as companion pets, or for ornamental, exhibition, or entertainment purposes.
				Exotic Fowl includes, but is not limited to, budgerigars (i.e. budgies or
				parakeets), canaries, cockatiels, finches, parrots, and other cage birds.
				Exotic Fowl also includes ratites.
(6) "Fowl Market"--location where domestic
				fowl or domestic and exotic fowl are assembled or concentrated at regular or
				irregular intervals for sale, trade, barter, or exchange.
(7) "Hold Order"--A commission document
				restricting movement of a flock, unit, or individual fowl pending the
				determination of disease status.
(8) "Live Bird Marketing Distributor"--Any
				person engaged in sales and/or movement of live domestic or exotic fowl between
				a production system and a live bird market or fowl market or acquires domestic
				or exotic fowl from multiple flocks or geographic areas for resale to another
				person.
(9) "Live Bird Market"
				(LBM)--Any facility on which live domestic fowl or domestic and exotic fowl are
				congregated to be slaughtered and dressed for sale to the public or local
				restaurants.
(10) "Live Bird
				Production Unit"--Any production facility that is the origin of live domestic
				fowl or domestic and exotic fowl offered for sale in a LBM.
(11) "Live Bird Marketing System"--Any Live
				Bird Market, Live Bird Marketing Distributor, or Live Bird Production
				Unit.
(12) "Person"--Any
				individual, firm, partnership, corporation, estate, trust, fiduciary, or other
				group or combination acting as a unit.
(13) "Premises identification number"
				(PIN)--A unique official seven (7) character alpha numeric identification code
				issued under this chapter to identify a specific and unique premises.
(14) "Seller"--Any person who sells, trades,
				exchanges or barters domestic or exotic fowl.
(15) "Transporter"--A person that transports,
				for hire, domestic or exotic fowl from a producer premises to another premises,
				a live bird market, a fowl market or to another person.