Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Agriculture and Food
Title R58 - Animal Industry
Rule R58-18 - Elk Farming
Section R58-18-2 - Definitions

(1) "Animal identification" means a device or means of individual animal identification.

(2) "Approved test" means diagnostic tests for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance accepted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and approved by the state veterinarian.

(3) "Commingle" means maintaining animals where physical contact among animals could occur, including keeping animals in the same pasture or enclosure. "Commingle" does not include holding animals at a sale, during transportation, during artificial insemination, or in other circumstances involving limited contact among animals for a short period.

(4) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

(5) "CWD-exposed animal" means an animal that commingled with a CWD-positive animal within the previous 60 months.

(6) "CWD-exposed herd" means a herd in which a CWD-positive animal or a CWD-exposed animal has resided for any period within 60 months before that animal's diagnosis as CWD-positive or exposure to CWD.

(7) "CWD Herd Certification Program" means the Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program.

(8) "CWD-positive animal" means an animal that has had a diagnosis of CWD confirmed by an official CWD test.

(9) "CWD-positive herd" means a herd in which a CWD-positive animal resided within the previous 60 months.

(10) "CWD-suspect herd" means a herd in which a suspect domesticated elk resides.

(11) "Destination Herd" means the intended herd of residence that shall be occupied by the animal proposed for importation.

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

(13) "Domesticated elk" means an animal of the genus and species Cervus Elaphus, born and held in captivity and domestically raised for commercial purposes.

(14) "Domesticated elk facility" means a facility where domesticated elk are raised or hunted and includes an elk ranch.

(15) "Domesticated elk farm" means a facility where domesticated elk are raised.

(16) "Elk ranch" means a facility where domesticated elk are harvested through typical hunting methods.

(17) "Herd of Origin" means the herd that an imported animal has resided in, or does reside in, before importation.

(18) "Official slaughter facility" means a place where the slaughter of livestock occurs that is under the authority of the state or federal government and receives state or federal inspection.

(19) "Physical inventory" means an on-site inspection of every elk by a department employee where the RFID and visual tag number are collected and reconciled against department and producer records.

(20) "Quarantine Facility" means a confined area where selected elk can be secured, contained, and isolated from any other elk and livestock.

(21) "Raised" means possession of domesticated elk for any purpose other than hunting.

(22) "Separate location" in addition to the definition in Subsection 4-39-203(5), means any facility that may be separated by two distinct perimeter fences, not more than 10 miles apart, owned by the same person.

(23) "Suspect domesticated elk" means a domesticated elk for which the state veterinarian has determined that unofficial test results, laboratory evidence, or clinical signs suggest that the domesticated elk may be infected with a disease-spreading pathogen and official laboratory results are inconclusive or have not been conducted.

(24) "Trace Back Herd" or "Source Herd" means a herd of Cervidae where an animal affected with CWD has formerly resided.

(25) "Trace Forward Herd" means a herd of Cervidae that has received exposed animals that originated from a CWD-positive herd within five years before the diagnosis of CWD in the positive herd or from the identified date of entry of CWD into the positive herd.