California Code of Regulations
Title 4 - Business Regulations
Division 3 - Bureau of Household Goods and Services
Article 5 - Plumage Regulations
Section 1192 - Definitions of Types and Kinds of Plumage
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) "Crushed Feathers" shall mean feathers which have been processed by a curling, crushing or chopping machine and includes the fiber resulting from such processing and which has changed the original form of the feather without removing the quill.
(b) "Damaged Feathers" shall mean feathers which have been broken, injured by insects or depreciated from the original value in any manner.
(c) "Down" shall mean the undercoating of waterfowl, consisting of the light fluffy filaments "barb" growing from one quill point but without any quill shaft.
(d) "Down Fiber" shall mean the detached barbs from down and plumules and detached barbs from the basal end of the waterfowl quill shaft which are indistinguishable from the barbs of down.
(e) "Feathers" shall mean the plumage or out-growth forming the contour and external covering of fowl which are whole in structure and which have not been processed in any manner other than dusting and washing.
(f) "Feather Fiber" shall mean the detached barbs of feathers which are not joined or attached to each other.
(g) "Landfowl" shall mean plumage derived from chickens and turkeys.
(h) "Plumage" shall mean the outercovering of fowl.
(i) "Plumules" shall mean waterfowl plumage with underdeveloped soft and flaccid quill with barbs indistinguishable from those of down.
(j) "Quill Feathers" shall mean feathers exceeding four inches in length or having a quill point exceeding 6/16ths of an inch in length.
(k) "Residue" shall mean quill pith, quill fragments, trash or foreign matter.
(l) "Waterfowl" shall mean plumage derived from ducks or geese.
(m) "Duck" shall mean plumage derived from ducks.
(n) "Goose" shall mean plumage derived from geese.
(o) "Turkey" shall mean plumage derived from turkeys.
(p) "Chicken" shall mean plumage derived from chickens.
1. Amendment filed
5-19-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 74, No. 19).
2. New
NOTE filed 12-10-81 as procedural and organizational; effective upon filing
(Register 81, No. 50).
3. Repealer filed 7-24-96; operative 8-23-96
(Register 96, No. 30).
4. New section filed 3-16-2000; operative
4-12-2000 (Register 2000, No. 11).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 19034 and 19089, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 19080, 19081, 19088 and 19150, Business and Professions Code.
