Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part I - Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services › Chapter 5 - ANIMAL MARKETS › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 5.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Animal
-A horse, mule, bull, steer, ox,
					 cow, heifer, calf, swine, sheep or goat.
Animal market
-A place approved by the
					 Department other than the farm of origin where animals are offered for sale,
					 barter or trade, on a public, private or commercial basis.
Breeding swine
-Sexually intact domestic
					 swine 6 months of age or over, sexually intact feral swine of all ages, and
					 swine 5 months of age or younger selected for future production of
					 offspring.
Department
-The Department of Agriculture
					 of the Commonwealth.
Feeder swine
-Swine other than breeding
					 swine or swine consigned or sold for slaughter and slaughtered within 3 days of
					 date of sale.
Permit
-A document issued by the Department
					 or USDA-APHIS authorizing and establishing conditions under which a quarantined
					 or diseased animal may be moved interstate or intrastate.
Poultry
-Domestic or captive avian species
					 which are subject to exposure to dangerous transmissible diseases, to include
					 not only chickens and turkeys, but also waterfowl, game fowl, pigeons,
					 parakeets, canaries, finches, parrots or other pet, wild or exotic birds and
					 the hatching eggs of the avian species.
Pseudorabies
-A contagious, infectious and
					 communicable disease of animals caused by Herpesvirus suis, also known as
					 Aujeszky's disease, mad itch or infectious bulbar paralysis, that has been
					 declared by the Department to be a dangerous transmissible disease.
Pseudorabies epidemiologist
-A veterinarian
					 designated by the Department or USDA-APHIS to investigate and diagnose
					 suspected pseudorabies in animals.
Pseudorabies exposed animal
-An animal that
					 has been in contact with a pseudorabies infected animal. The term does not
					 include an animal, other than swine, that has not been in contact with another
					 animal with symptoms of pseudorabies for 10 consecutive days.
Pseudorabies infected animal
-An animal
					 determined to be infected with pseudorabies by a pseudorabies
					 epidemiologist.
Pseudorabies restricted animal market
-A
					 quarantined animal market designated by the Department to conduct sales of
					 animals originating from premises under Pennsylvania pseudorabies
					 quarantine.
Recognized slaughter establishment
-A
					 slaughter establishment operated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (
					 21 U.S.C.A. §
											§
											601 -
					 623,
					 641 -
					 645,
					 661,
					 671 -
					 680 and
					 691 ) or a State inspected
					 slaughter establishment.
Slaughter market
-An animal market approved
					 by the Department for the sale of slaughter animals in accordance with this
					 chapter and the act of June 22, 1931 (P. L. 650, No. 225) (3 P. S. §
											§
											431-439), known as the Farm Animal
					 Dealer or Broker Law.
USDA-APHIS
-The United States Department of
					 Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The provisions of this §
												5.1 amended under section 40 of the
						act of July 22, 1913 (P. L. 928, No. 441) (3 P. S. §
													430); section 1702 of The Administrative Code
						of 1929 (71 P. S. §
													442); and the
						Domestic Animal Law,
						3
						Pa.C.S. §
													§
													2321(a)(12) and
						(38),
						2327,
						2329 and
						2382.