New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 30 - ANIMALS AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 3 - BOVINE BRUCELLOSIS
Section 21.30.3.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Board" means the New Mexico livestock board.

B. "Director" means the executive director of the New Mexico livestock board.

C. "Holstein cross" means bovines that have some percentage of holstein or other dairy breed in their genetic lineage.

D. "Inspector" means any duly authorized or commissioned officer of the livestock board.

E. "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and asses. This includes privately owned buffalo (bison).

F. "New Mexico livestock" means any livestock raised or pastured or fed within the state of New Mexico.

G. "Person" means an individual, partnership, association or operation.

H. "Quarantine" or "quarantined area" means any area within the state of New Mexico whose physical boundaries have been established by order of the board or a duly authorized agent of the board for the purpose of controlling the movement of livestock to prevent the spread of disease.

I. "Quarantined livestock" means any livestock found by the board or its duly authorized agent to be exposed or affected by a contagious or infectious disease and the order of restricted movement is imposed.

J. "Sealed vehicle" means a vehicle for transporting livestock that has its gates or doors closed and which gates or doors have an attached strip of metal, which is numbered for identification. The metal strip is attached to the gates or doors in a manner that would break the "seal" if the vehicle were to opened.