Utah Admin. Code R58-18-2 - Definitions
In addition to the definitions found in Sections 4-1-109, 4-7-103, 4-24-102, 4-32-105, and 4-39-102, the following terms are defined for this rule:
(1) "Animal
identification" means a device or means of individual animal
identification.
(2) "Approved test"
means a diagnostic test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance accepted
by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and approved by the state
veterinarian.
(3) "Commingle" means
maintaining animals where physical contact among animals could occur, including
keeping animals in the same pasture or enclosure. "Commingle" does not include
holding animals at a sale, during transportation, during artificial
insemination, or in other circumstances involving limited contact among animals
for a short period.
(4)
"Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Utah Department of Agriculture and
Food.
(5) "CWD-exposed animal"
means an animal that commingled with a CWD-positive animal within the previous
60 months.
(6) "CWD-exposed herd"
means a herd in which a CWD-positive animal or a CWD-exposed animal has resided
for any period within 60 months before that animal's diagnosis as CWD-positive
or exposure to CWD.
(7) "CWD Herd
Certification Program" means the Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification
Program.
(8) "CWD-positive animal"
means an animal that has had a diagnosis of CWD confirmed by an official CWD
test.
(9) "CWD-positive herd" means
a herd in which a CWD-positive animal resided within the previous 60
months.
(10) "CWD-suspect herd"
means a herd in which a suspect domesticated elk resides.
(11) "Dead tested" means an elk that dies of
natural causes on an elk farm that has at least one sample that is testable for
CWD.
(12) "Department" means the
Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.
(13) "Domesticated elk" means an animal of
the genus and species Cervus elaphus, born and held in captivity and
domestically raised for commercial purposes.
(14) "Domesticated elk facility" means a
facility where domesticated elk are raised or hunted and includes an elk
ranch.
(15) "Elk farm" means a
facility where domesticated elk are raised.
(16) "Elk ranch" means a facility where
domesticated elk are harvested through typical hunting methods.
(17) "Harvest" means to kill by hunting or
slaughter. For this rule, "harvest" may include an elk that dies by means other
than hunting or slaughter.
(18)
"Herd of origin" means the herd that an imported animal has resided in, or does
reside in, before importation.
(19)
"Hunt killed" means any elk reported as harvested on a harvest
permit.
(20) "Hunt killed tested"
means any elk reported as harvested on a harvest permit for which at least one
sample is testable for CWD.
(21)
"Missing" means an elk that is on departmental records that is not present
during physical inventory and is presumed dead and untested for inventory and
testing compliance calculations.
(22) "Moved out" means any elk that is sold
or sent from a farm to another elk farm or an elk ranch.
(23) "Official slaughter facility" means a
place where the slaughter of livestock occurs that is under the authority of
the state or federal government and receives state or federal
inspections.
(24) "Premises
identification number" means a nationally unique number assigned by the
department to a premises that is, in the judgment of the department, a
geographically distinct location from other premises.
(25) "Quarantine Facility" means a confined
area where selected elk can be secured, contained, and isolated from any other
elk and livestock.
(26) "Raised"
means possession of domesticated elk for any purpose other than
hunting.
(27) "Slaughtered" means
any elk harvested for meat on an elk farm or at a licensed slaughter
establishment but does not include elk harvested through hunting and documented
on a harvest permit.
(28)
"Slaughtered tested" means any slaughtered elk for which at least one sample is
testable for CWD.
(29) "Suspect
domesticated elk" means a domesticated elk for which the state veterinarian has
determined that unofficial test results, laboratory evidence, or clinical signs
suggest that the domesticated elk may be infected with a disease-spreading
pathogen and laboratory results are inconclusive or have not been
conducted.
(30) "Trace Back Herd"
or "Source Herd" means a herd of Cervidae where an animal affected with CWD has
formerly resided.
(31) "Trace
Forward Herd" means a herd of Cervidae that has received exposed animals that
originated from a CWD-positive herd within five years before the diagnosis of
CWD in the positive herd or from the identified date of entry of CWD into the
positive herd.
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