Or. Admin. R. 603-015-0080 - Definitions
As used in OAR 603-015-0075 to 603-015-0110:
(1) "Department" means the State Department
of Agriculture and the Enforcing Agency, which is the office of the State
Veterinarian, located within the State Department of Agriculture.
(2) "Animal rescue entity" means any
individual or organization-including but not limited to an animal control
agency, humane society, animal shelter, animal sanctuary, or boarding kennel
not subject to ORS
167.374,
but excluding a veterinary facility and a foster facility-that keeps, houses,
and maintains in the individual's or organization's legal custody 10 or more
animals at any given time and that solicits or accepts donations in any
form.
(3) "Foster facility" means a
separate location controlled by, but not owned or operated by the animal rescue
entity, at which a person has volunteered to maintain physical custody of
animals that are within the legal custody of an animal rescue entity. A foster
facility is not considered a separate physical location out of which an animal
rescue entity operates.
(4) "10 or
more animals" means the combined number of animals kept, housed, and maintained
in the animal rescue entity's legal custody, whether at that animal rescue
entity's physical location, another physical location of the same animal rescue
entity, or in the physically custody of a foster facility. A nursing mother and
her unweaned offspring constitute one animal unit. Weaned offspring constitute
individual animal units.
(5)
"Animal" means any nonhuman mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian or fish.
(6) "License year" means a 12-month period
beginning July 1 and ending on June 30 for which a license is valid or the
remainder of that period at the time a license is issued.
(7) "State Veterinarian" means the chief
animal health official of the State as per ORS
596.210
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 609.415, 561 & 596
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 609.415 & 609.420
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