Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE
Part XI - Animals and Animal Diseases; Rendering of Animals
Chapter 1 - General
Section XI-101 - Definitions [formerly paragraph 11:001]
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, the following words and terms used in this Part of the sanitary code and all other Parts which are adopted or may be adopted, are defined for the purposes thereof as follows.
Animal-all animals, any part of the body of which is used as food for human consumption and, insofar as these regulations relate to sanitation of premises or to spread of any communicable disease dangerous to man, shall also include dogs, donkeys and other similar livestock.
Fowl-all poultry, ducks, geese, turkeys, or game birds used as food for human consumption, and parrots or other birds capable of spreading any disease dangerous to man.
Nuisance-a source of inconvenience, annoyance, vexation; bother.
Offal-waste, especially of a butchered animal.
Rendering Plant-any establishment equipped to cook and make innocuous any animal or fowl dead from any cause, or any offal from a slaughter house, abattoir, or butcher shop.
AUTHORITY NOTE: The first source of authority for promulgation of the sanitary code is R.S. 36:258(B), with more particular provisions found in Chapters 1 and 4 of Title 40 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. This Part is promulgated with the specific provisions of R.S. 40:4(A)(12).
