The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise:
(1) Accredited veterinarian--A licensed veterinarian
who is approved to perform specified functions required by cooperative
state-federal disease control and eradication programs pursuant to
Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 160 and 161.
(2) Animal--Includes livestock, exotic livestock, domestic
fowl, and exotic fowl.
(3) Assembly--Boarding stables, boarding pastures,
breeding farms, parades, rodeos, roping events, trail rides, and training
stables.
(4) Certificate of veterinary inspection--A document
signed by an accredited veterinarian that shows the livestock, poultry,
exotic livestock, or exotic fowl listed were inspected and subjected
to tests, immunizations, and treatment as required by the commission.
Certificates are valid for 30 days for all species.
(5) Cervidae--Deer, elk, moose, caribou and related
species in the cervidae family, raised under confinement or agricultural
conditions for the production of meat or other agricultural products
or for sport or exhibition, and free-ranging cervidae when they are
captured for any purpose.
(6) Commission--The Texas Animal Health Commission.
(7) Commuter Flock--A National Poultry Improvement
Plan (pullorum-typhoid clean or equivalent) flock in good standing
with operations in participating states that are under single ownership
or management control whose normal operations require interstate movement
of hatching eggs and/or baby poultry without change of ownership for
purposes of hatching, feeding, rearing or breeding. The owner or representative
of the company owning the flock and chief animal health officials
of participating states of origin and destination must have entered
into a signed "Commuter Poultry Flock Agreement."
(8) Commuter Cattle Herd--A herd of cattle located
in two or more states that is documented as a valid ranching operation
by those states in which the herd is located and which requires movement
of cattle interstate from a farm of origin or returned interstate
to a farm of origin in the course of normal ranching operations, without
change of ownership, directly to or from another premise owned, leased,
or rented by the same individual. An application for "commuter herd"
status must be signed by the owner and approved by the states in which
the herd is located. This status will continue until canceled by the
owner or one of the signatory states.
(9) Commuter Swine Herd--A swine herd located in two
or more states that is documented as a valid ranching operation by
those states in which the herd is located and which requires movement
of swine interstate from a farm of origin or returned interstate to
a farm of origin in the course of normal ranching operations, without
change of ownership, directly to or from another premise owned, leased,
or rented by the same individual. An application for "commuter herd"
status must be signed by the owner and approved by the states in which
the herd is located. This status will continue until canceled by the
owner or one of the signatory states.
(10) Directly--Moved in a means of conveyance, without
stopping to unload while en route, except for stops of less than 24
hours to feed, water or rest the animals being moved, and with no
commingling of animals at such stops.
(11) Equine interstate passport--A document signed
by an accredited veterinarian that shows the equine listed were inspected,
subjected to tests, immunizations and treatment as required by the
issuing state animal health agency, and contains a description of
the equine listed. The passport is valid for six months when accompanied
by proof of an official negative EIA test within the previous six
months. Permanent individual animal identification in the form of
a lip tattoo, brand or electronic implant is required for all equine
approved for the equine interstate passport. This document is valid
for equine entering from any state that has entered into a written
agreement to reciprocate with Texas.
(12) Equine identification card--A document signed
by the owner and a brand inspector or authorized state animal regulatory
agency representative that lists the animal's name and description
and indicates the location of all identifying marks or brands. This
document is valid for equine entering from any state which has entered
into a written agreement to reciprocate with Texas.
(13) Exotic livestock--Grass-eating or plant-eating,
single-hooved or cloven-hooved mammals that are not indigenous to
this state and are known as ungulates, including animals from the
swine, horse, tapir, rhinoceros, elephant, deer, and antelope families.
(14) Exotic fowl--Any avian species that is not indigenous
to this state. The term includes ratites.
(15) Federally Approved Livestock Market--A livestock
market under State or Federal veterinary supervision where livestock
are assembled and has been approved under Title 9 of the Code of Federal
Regulation, Part 71, Section 71.20.
(16) Interstate show--A show, fair, or exhibition that
permits livestock and poultry from other states to enter for show
or exhibition and be held in common facilities with Texas origin livestock
and poultry of the same species.
(17) Livestock--Cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep,
goats, and hogs.
(18) Owner-shipper statement--A statement signed by
the owner or shipper of the livestock being moved stating the location
from which the animals are moved interstate; the destination of the
animals; the number of the animals covered by the statement; the species
of the animal covered; the name and address of the shipper; and the
identification of each animal as required by the commission or the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
(19) Permit--A document recognized by the commission
with specified conditions relative to movement, testing and vaccinating
of animals which is required to accompany the animals entering, leaving
or moving within the State of Texas.
(A) "E" permit--Premovement authorization for entry
of animals into the state by the commission. The "E" permit states
the conditions under which movement may be made, and will provide
any appropriate restrictions and test requirements after arrival.
The permit is valid for 15 days.
(B) VS 1-27 (VS Form 1-27)--A premovement authorization
for movement of animals to restricted designations.
(20) Purebred registry association--A swine breed association
formed and perpetuated for the maintenance of records of purebreeding
of swine species for a specific breed whose characteristics are set
forth in constitutions, by-laws, and other rules of the association.
(21) Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID)--Official
individual animal identification with an identification device that
utilizes radio frequency technology. The RFID devices include ear
tags, boluses, implants (injected), and tag attachments (transponders
that work in concert with ear tags).
(22) Sponsor--An owner or person in charge of an exhibition,
show or fair.
(23) Trichomoniasis--A venereal disease of cattle caused
by the organism Tritrichomonas foetus.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §51.1 adopted to be effective June 3, 2002, 27 TexReg 5182; amended to be effective November 3, 2002, 27 TexReg 10009; amended to be effective October 16, 2003, 28 TexReg 8885; amended to be effective March 4, 2007, 32 TexReg 753; amended to be effective June 3, 2014, 39 TexReg 4240; amended to be effective February 15, 2015, 40 TexReg 698; amended to be effective June 30, 2015, 40 TexReg 4211; amended to be effective September 12, 2017, 42 TexReg 4614 |
