The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise:
(1) "Animal" includes livestock, exotic livestock,
domestic fowl water fowl, and exotic fowl or any invertebrate or vertebrate.
(2) "Animal Product" means hides; bones; hoofs; horns;
viscera; parts of animal bodies; litter, straw, or hay used for bedding;
and any other substance capable of carrying insects or a disease that
may endanger the livestock industry.
(3) "Caretaker of Animal" means a person presumed to
control the animal if the person is the owner or lessee of the pen,
pasture, or other place where the animal is located and has control
of that place, or exercises care or control over the animal.
(4) "Dealer" means a person engaged in the business
of buying or selling animals in commerce on the person's own account;
as an employee or agent of the vendor, the purchaser, or both; or
on a commission basis.
(5) "Declaration of State of Disaster" The Governor
by executive order or proclamation may declare a state of disaster
if the Governor finds a disaster has occurred or that the occurrence
or threat of disaster is imminent.
(6) "Effect of Disaster Declaration" An executive order
or proclamation issued by the Governor declaring a state of disaster:
(A) activates the disaster recovery and rehabilitation
aspects of the state emergency management plan applicable to the area
subject to the declaration; and
(B) authorizes the deployment and use of any forces
to which the plan applies and the use or distribution of any supplies,
equipment, and materials or facilities assembled, stockpiled, or arranged
to be made available under this chapter or other law relating to disasters.
(7) "Emergency Management Plan Council" is composed
of the heads of state agencies, boards, and commissions and representatives
of organized volunteer groups to advise and assist the Governor in
all matters relating to disaster mitigation, preparedness, response,
and recovery. The commission is a member of that council.
(8) "Emergency Management Plan" is a state prepared
plan together with annexes designed to address all emergency management
functional responsibilities. This plan defines the organization, establishes
operational concepts, assigns responsibilities, and outlines coordination
procedures for accomplishing comprehensive emergency management objectives
in Texas.
(9) "Exotic livestock" means 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.
(10) "Exotic fowl" means any avian species that is
not indigenous to this state. The term includes ratites.
(11) "Exposure or Infection" means if a veterinarian
employed by the commission determines that a communicable disease
exists among livestock, domestic animals, or domestic fowl or on certain
premises or that livestock, domestic animals, or domestic fowl have
been exposed to an agent of transmission of a communicable disease,
the exposure or infection is considered to continue until the commission
determines that the exposure or infection has been eradicated through
methods prescribed by rule of the commission.
(12) "Feedlot" means a confined drylot area for finish
feeding of cattle on concentrated feed with no facilities for pasturing
or grazing. All cattle in a feedlot are considered a "herd" for purposes
of these regulations.
(13) "Foreign Animal Diseases" means animal diseases
recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture as not being
found in the United States.
(14) "Hold Order" means a written commission order
and action restricting movement of a herd, animal, or animal product
pending the determination of disease status.
(15) "Livestock" includes cattle, horses, mules, asses,
sheep, goats, hogs, domestic fowl, exotic livestock and exotic fowl.
(16) "Livestock market" means a stockyard, sales pavilion,
or sales ring where livestock, exotic livestock, or exotic fowl are
assembled or concentrated at regular or irregular intervals for sale,
trade, barter, or exchange.
(17) "Show, fair, or exhibition" means a show, fair,
or exhibition that permits livestock and poultry to enter for the
purpose of showing or exhibiting livestock.
(18) "World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Diseases"
Animal diseases which have the potential for very serious and rapid
spread, irrespective of national borders, which are of serious socioeconomic
or public health consequence and of major importance in the international
trade of animals and animal products.
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