Section R58-18-2 - DefinitionsIn 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.Utah Admin. Code R58-18-2
Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2016-20, effective 9/19/2016Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2019-16, effective 7/22/2019Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2022-21, effective 10/24/2022Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2023-13, effective 6/13/2023Adopted by Utah State Bulletin Number 2024-17, effective 8/23/2024