Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part I - Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services › Chapter 17a - INTERIM GUIDELINES FOR APPROVAL OF OPTIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR HUMANE SOCIETY POLICE OFFICERS-STATEMENT OF POLICY › Section 17a.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:
Act
-The Humane Society Police Officer
				  Enforcement Act (3 P. S. §
										§
										456.1-456.7).
Agricultural animal
-A bovine animal, equine
				  animal, sheep, goat, pig, poultry, bird, fowl, wild or semiwild animal or fish
				  or other aquatic animal which is being raised, kept, transported or utilized
				  for the purpose of or under agricultural production.
Agricultural production
-The production and
				  preparation for market of agricultural animals and their products and of
				  agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquacultural crops
				  and commodities.
Approved optional training program
-An
				  optional training program that meets the relevant requirements of section
				  4(a)-(c) of the act (3 P. S. §
										456.4(a)-(c)) and has been
				  approved by the Department under authority of section 4(g) of the act.
Cruelty to animals laws
-The provisions of
				  18 Pa.C.S. §
										5511
				  (relating to cruelty to animals).
Department
-The Department of Agriculture of
				  the Commonwealth.
Humane society police officer
-A person
				  appointed under
				  22 Pa.C.S. §
										501
				  (relating to appointment by nonprofit corporations) to act as a police officer
				  for a society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The term
				  includes a person who is an agent of a society or association for the
				  prevention of cruelty to animals as "agent" is used in
				  18 Pa.C.S. §
										5511.
Land grant institution
-Educational
				  institutions located within or outside the geographic boundaries of this
				  Commonwealth which have received a grant of public land made by the Congress of
				  the United States for the support of education under the Morrill Act (
				  7 U.S.C.A. §
										§
										301 -
				  308.
Optional training program
-A course of
				  instruction for the initial or continuous training of humane society police
				  officers that is developed and administered by an accredited college, an
				  accredited university, an accredited community college or any other public or
				  private entity, and that satisfies the training requirements of section
				  4(a)-(c) of the act.
Optional training program for the continuous training
				  of humane society police officers
-An optional training program that
				  meets the requirements of section 4(c)(5) of the act.
Optional training program for the initial training of
				  humane society police officers
-An optional training program that meets
				  the requirements of section 4(c)(1)-(4) of the act.
Person
-A corporation, partnership,
				  association, government entity (other than the Commonwealth), estate, trust,
				  foundation, natural person, society or association for the prevention of
				  cruelty to animals, college, university or community college.
Society or association for the prevention of cruelty
				  to animals
-A nonprofit society or association incorporated under 15
				  Pa.C.S. Chapter 53, Subchapter A (relating to general provisions) for the
				  purpose of the prevention of cruelty to animals.