Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Agriculture and Food
Title R58 - Animal Industry
Rule R58-11 - Slaughter of Livestock and Poultry
Section R58-11-2 - Definitions

(1) "Adulterated" means any meat or poultry product as described in Subsection 4-32-105(1).

(2) "Bill of Sale for Hides" means a hide release or other formal means of transferring the title of a hide.

(3) "Business" means an individual or organization receiving remuneration for a service.

(4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture or their designee.

(5) "Custom Slaughter-Release Permit" means a permit that serves as a Brand Inspection Certificate and allows an animal owner to have their animal farm custom slaughtered.

(6) "Department" means the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

(7) "Detain or Embargo" means the holding of a food or food product for legal verification of adulteration, misbranding, or proof of ownership.

(8) "Emergency Slaughter" for the purpose of this rule, does not include slaughter of non-ambulatory injured cattle. For the purposes of this chapter, non-ambulatory disabled cattle that cannot rise from a recumbent position or cannot walk, including, those with broken appendages, severed tendons or ligaments, nerve paralysis, fractured vertebral column or metabolic conditions, are not allowed to be slaughtered for food.

(9) "Farm Custom Slaughtering" means the slaughtering, skinning, and preparing of livestock and poultry by humane means for the purpose of human consumption that is done at a place other than a licensed slaughtering house by a person who is not the owner of the animal.

(10) "Food" means a product intended for human consumption.

(11) "Immediate Family" means persons living together in a single dwelling unit and their sons and daughters.

(12) "License" means a license issued by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food to allow farm custom slaughtering.

(13) "Licensee" means a person who possesses a valid farm custom slaughtering license.

(14) "Misbranded" means any meat or poultry product as described in Subsection 4-32-105 (27).

(15) "Owner" means a person holding legal title to the animal.

(17) "Commerce" means the exchange transportation of poultry product between states, U.S. territories, including Guam, Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, and the District of Columbia.