Code of Vermont Rules › Agency 20 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND MARKETS › Sub-Agency 022 - LIVESTOCK DIVISION › Chapter 018 - VACCINATION OF DOMESTIC PETS, WOLF/HYBRIDS AND LIVESTOCK AGAINST RABIES; RABIES VACCINATION CLINICS › Section 20 022 018 - VACCINATION OF DOMESTIC PETS, WOLF/HYBRIDS AND LIVESTOCK AGAINST RABIES; RABIES VACCINATION CLINICS

Current through June, 2024
RABIES VACCINATION IN GENERAL
Section 1 Definitions
a. "Commissioner" where no other
			 department is referenced means the Commissioner of the Department of
			 Agriculture, Food and Markets, and includes his or her
			 designee.
b. "Domestic
			 pet" or "pet" means any domestic dogs, domestic cats and ferrets and
			 such other domestic animals as the commissioner shall establish by
			 rule, provided that the commissioner finds that the animal has the
			 potential to become an imminent danger to public health or welfare if
			 not subjected to the provisions of Title 20, Chapter 193, "Domestic
			 Pet or Wolf-hybrid control."
c. "Ferret" means only the European
			 ferret (Mustela putorious furo).
d. "For-profit clinics" means any
			 rabies vaccination clinic conducted by a veterinarian, or
			 organization that does not qualify as a non-profit public rabies
			 clinic.
e. "Livestock"
			 means those domestic animals defined in
			 6 V.S.A. §
											1151(2), including
			 but not limited to cattle, sheep, goats, equines, fallow and red
			 deer, American bison, swine, camelids.
f. "Non-profit public rabies
			 clinic" or "non-profit clinic" means a clinic conducted for the
			 public by a non-profit organization or a municipality. Income from
			 operation of the clinic minus reasonable expenses, shall be used for
			 rabies management. However, if the clinic is staffed by volunteers
			 provided by a non-profit organization, the income from operation of
			 the clinic, minus reasonable expenses, may be used to support the
			 activities of that organization. Reasonable expenses of a non-profit
			 public clinic may include the cost of: rabies vaccine; rabies
			 certificates and tags; supplies needed to administer the vaccine;
			 rental of a facility to hold the clinic; advertising; and a stipend
			 paid to volunteers. The total stipend paid shall not exceed $ 2.00
			 per rabies vaccination for the first 100 rabies vaccinations and $
			 1.00 per rabies vaccination thereafter.
g. "Volunteer", a volunteer for
			 purposes of the immunity from liability set forth in
			 20 V.S.A. §
											3812, means a lay person or
			 veterinarian who works at a non-profit rabies vaccination clinic and
			 receives no compensation for his or her services or time, other than
			 the stipend authorized by these rules.
h. "Wolf-hybrid" means an animal
			 which is the progeny or descendant of a domestic dog (Canis
			 familiaris) and a wolf (Canis lupus or Canis rufus). "Wolf-hybrid"
			 also means an animal which is advertised, registered, licensed or
			 otherwise described or represented as a wolf-hybrid by its owner or
			 an animal which exhibits primary physical and behavioral wolf
			 characteristics, as defined by the Commissioner of the Department of
			 Fish and Wildlife.