New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 32 - BRANDS, OWNERSHIP, AND TRANSPORTATION OF ANIMALS
Part 3 - TRANSPORTATION OF LIVESTOCK
Section 21.32.3.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Approved eartag" shall be any tag that has received the approval of the livestock board prior to application. The tag must clearly and conspicuously show the owner of the calf prior to sale. The owner may be shown by use of the actual name to which the brand is recorded, brand image or brand master number.

B. "Baby calf" means a bovine animal less than 30 days of age.

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

D. "Calf-raising facility and or feed yard" means an established entity in the state of New Mexico for the primary purpose of raising baby calves that are not part of a cow-calf pair that have multiple herds of origin.

E. "Cow-calf pair" means a cow and its suckling progeny; a cow nursing an adopted calf does not qualify as a "cow-calf pair."

F. "Dairy" means an established entity in the state of New Mexico in business for the primary purpose of fluid milk production and which has been assigned a dairy I.D. number by the New Mexico department of agriculture.

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

H. "EID" means official electronic identification, to include radio frequency identification tag.

I. "Feedlot" means an established entity in the state of New Mexico for the primary purpose of feeding cattle.

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

K. "Livestock or animal" means cattle, sheep, swine, bison, goats, horses, mules, asses, poultry, ratites, camelids, and farmed cervidae.

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

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

N. "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.

O. "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.

P. "Telephone permit" means the authorization to transport livestock to an approved New Mexico auction without prior inspection, by use of a confidential number issued to the owner or owner's agent, which identifies the specific animals and shipment to a specific auction.

Q. "Transient livestock" means livestock transported through the state of New Mexico from another state or country whose destination is not within the state of New Mexico.

R. "Transient livestock with New Mexico destination" means livestock imported in the state of New Mexico from another state or country, or being transported within the state and not having reached the final destination for feed or pasture purpose.