Delaware Administrative Code
Title 3 - Agriculture
900 - Poultry and Animal Health
901 - Poultry Disease Prevention Regulations
Section 901-3.0 - Definitions

The following terms have the meanings indicated:

"Commercial Poultry" means poultry as defined in 9 CFR Part 146.

"Completely Clean" means free of organic material.

"DDA" means the Delaware Department of Agriculture.

"Integrated Poultry Company" means a corporate enterprise that contracts the entire growing cycle of its own birds from the breeder flock to the processing plant.

"Non-commercial Poultry" means all other species and classes of poultry other than those defined as commercial poultry.

"NPIP" means the National Poultry Improvement Plan of the United States Department of Agriculture, 9 CFR Parts 145-147.

"Person" means individual, corporation, partnership, business, cooperative, or any other legal entity.

"Physical Plant" means the permanent structure of a building or place including walls, floors, ceilings, crates, coops, or other enclosures that may become contaminated with infectious material.

"Poultry" means domesticated fowl, including chickens, turkeys, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, waterfowl, game birds, doves and pigeons.

"Poultry Dealer" means a person or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling or transporting poultry or operating a livestock auction or livestock sales facility, exempting state-federal approved livestock markets.

"Poultry Producer" means any person who owns or operates a poultry producing premises and who grows, raises, feeds, exhibits, owns or produces poultry in Delaware. Poultry producer includes both commercial and non-commercial poultry.

"Poultry Producing Premises" means any location in Delaware where live poultry is kept.