8 CCR 1205-2 Part 1 - Definition and construction of terms
As used in these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires:
As used in these Rules, the singular includes the plural, the masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter, and vice versa. All terms used in these Rules shall have the meaning set forth for such terms in the Act.
1.1. "Accredited veterinarian"
means an individual who is currently licensed and in good standing with a
veterinary licensing board or agency in any state of the United States or the
District of Columbia to practice veterinary medicine and is accredited by the
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, Veterinary Services.
1.2.
"Act" means the Alternative Livestock Act, Title 35, Article 41.5, C. R.
S.
1.3. "Alternative livestock"
shall have the meaning set forth at §
35-41.5-102(1),
C.R.S.
1.4. "Alternative livestock
auction" means any place, establishment, or facility at which alternative
livestock are received, held, or assembled for either public or private
sale.
1.5. "Alternative livestock
facility" means any real property licensed by the Board pursuant to
§§
35-41.5-104,
106 and
107, C.R.S.
1.6. "Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Services (APHIS)" means the agency in the United States Department of
Agriculture known as the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services.
1.7. "Applicant" means a person that applies
for an alternative livestock license or renewal of an alternative livestock
license under the Act.
1.8. "Board"
means the State Board of Stock Inspection Commissioners.
1.9. "Buyer" means the person purchasing
alternative livestock. The buyer may, or may not be, the same as the
purchaser.
1.10. "Cervid" means
deer, moose or elk.
1.11. "Change
of ownership" means when title to a live alternative livestock animal changes
between persons.
1.12. "Chronic
Wasting Disease (CWD)" means a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of
fallow deer and elk.
1.13. "CPW"
means Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
1.14. "CWD Surveillance Status" means the
period of time in months during which an alternative livestock facility has
submitted brain specimens from all alternative livestock mortalities 12 months
of age and older, regardless of cause, and when all such tests have proven
negative for CWD, and when all external alternative livestock additions to the
herd originated from a herd with equal or higher CWD Surveillance
Status.
1.15. "Consignor" means the
person that sends or delivers alternative livestock to the auction to be
sold.
1.16. "Herd plan" means a
plan approved by the Commissioner of the Colorado Department of Agriculture and
the Director of CPW to replace a quarantine previously issued by the State
Veterinarian to an alternative livestock facility that has tested positive for
the presence of CWD. A herd plan sets forth how the herd and the facility must
be managed to minimize the spread of CWD infection.
1.17. "NUES" means United States Department
of Agriculture National Uniform Eartagging System.
1.18. "Person" means an individual or any
legal entity that is registered to do business in Colorado.
1.19. "Purchase invoice" means the bill of
sale issued by a licensed auction market which contains the information
required in Part 12 of this Rule.
1.20. "Purchaser" means the person that has
obtained title to alternative livestock by making payment for same with cash or
an instrument which was honored when presented.
1.21. "Raised" as used in §
35-41.5-104 of the Act means any
possession of alternative livestock for any purpose.
1.22. "Second barrier" means a fence or
restraint in addition to the 8-foot perimeter fence designed in such a way as
to provide additional protection against ingress and egress of alternative
livestock and wild cervids and nose to nose contact, as approved by the
Board.
1.23. "Seller" means the
person that transfers legal title to alternative livestock.
1.24. "Separate location" as used in the Act
means any facility located within a separate perimeter fence not connected to
another perimeter.
1.25. "State
Veterinarian" means the veterinarian designated by the Commissioner of the
Colorado Department of Agriculture as the Director of the Division of Animal
Health, Colorado Department of Agriculture.
1.26. "Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy (TSE)" means a disease of animals which is thought to be caused
by an abnormal prion protein which accumulates in the brain and lymphoid tissue
causing sponge-like lesions in the brain.
1.27. "Wild cervid" means species of the
cervidae family indigenous to Colorado excluding captive animals of the same
species held as alternative livestock for exhibition or
research.
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