Florida Administrative Code
5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES
5C - Division of Animal Industry
Chapter 5C-31 - CATTLE IDENTIFICATION
Section 5C-31.001 - Definitions

(1) Approved Livestock Facility. A livestock market or stockyard under state or federal veterinary supervision where livestock are assembled and that has been approved under 9 C.F.R. § 71.20 (2013), as incorporated in Rule 5C-31.006, F.A.C.

(2) Approved Tagging Site. A site or location specifically approved by the department to apply official individual identification to cattle.

(3) Approved Tagging Site Manager. The individual responsible for an approved tagging site.

(4) Cattle. Any bull, steer, ox, cow, heifer, calf, or any other bovine animal including bison.

(5) Moved directly. The transport of cattle, without offloading, from one premises to another.

(6) Official Individual Identification. An individual animal identification that uniquely identifies the animal, the premises of origin or the premises where the animal was uniquely identified, and the state in which the official individual identification was applied, and

(7) Premises Identification Number. A nationally unique number assigned by a state, tribal and/or federal animal health authority to a premises that is, in the judgment of the state, tribal and/or federal animal health authority, a geographically distinct location from other premises.

(8) Premises of Origin. The farm or ranch at which the official individual identification is applied, or if the official identification is applied at an approved tagging site, the farm or ranch from which the cattle have been brought to the approved tagging site.

(9) Purchaser. The new owner of the cattle purchased during or as part of an auction or sale at an Approved Livestock Facility.

(10) Recognized Slaughter Establishment. Any slaughter establishment operating under the provisions of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. §§ 601 et seq.) as incorporated in subsection 5C-3.001(36), F.A.C., or the state meat inspection act of the state in which the establishment is located.