Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
ATCP 10-19 - Animal Health
Chapter ATCP 17 - Livestock Premises Registration
Section ATCP 17.01 - Definitions

(1) "Address" means one of the following:

(8) "Bovine animal" means beef cattle, dairy cattle, or American bison of any age or sex.

(9) "Captive game birds" means birds of a normally wild type, such as pheasants, quail, wild turkeys, migratory wildfowl, pigeons, and exotic birds raised for hunting, that are raised in captivity. "Captive game birds" does not include poultry or ratites, but does include birds kept pursuant to a license issued under s. 169.15, 169.19, 169.20, or 169.21, Stats.

(10) "Cervid" means a member of the family of animals that includes deer, elk, moose, caribou, reindeer, and the subfamily musk deer. "Cervid" includes all farm-raised deer.

(11) "Clinic" means a place where livestock are kept primarily for purposes of health care or rehabilitation.

(12) "Confidential information" means information that the department is required, under s. 95.51, Stats., and this chapter, to keep confidential.

(13) "Contiguous" means adjacent, or separated only by a transportation corridor, stream, or like feature.

(14) "Contract agent" means a person who acts on behalf of the department, pursuant to a written contract with the department.

Note: The department may contract with an agent to process registrations under this chapter, and to manage registration information on behalf of the department. The contract agent must comply with this chapter and the agent's contract with the department. The contract must include provisions specified in this chapter, including provisions related to confidentiality of information collected under this chapter. See ss. ATCP 17.03 and 17.04.

(17) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

Note: The department's contract agent may act on behalf of the department, to the extent authorized under this chapter and the agent contract. See s. ATCP 17.04.

(18) "Farm-raised deer" has the meaning given in s. 95.001(1) (ag), Stats., but does not include a cervid kept by an institution accredited by the association of zoos and aquariums.

(20) "Fish farm" means a facility, at which a person hatches fish eggs or keeps live fish, which is required to be registered under s. ATCP 10.61.

(21) "Individual" means a human being.

(22) "Keep livestock" means to own, feed, house, confine, or care for livestock, or to exercise legal or physical control over livestock. "Keep livestock" does not include the quarantine or confinement of livestock by the department or by the United States department of agriculture.

Note: At any given time, several persons may be "keeping" the same livestock. For example, livestock owned by Person A might be fed and cared for by Person B on property owned and maintained by Person C.

(23) "Livestock" means bovine animals, equine animals, goats, poultry, sheep, swine other than wild hogs, farm-raised deer, captive game birds, South American camelids, ratites, and fish from a fish farm.

(24) "Livestock exhibition" means a state, county, or district fair, or an event at which livestock from different premises are exhibited to the public at a common location.

(25) "Location" means a parcel of real estate in this state, or a group of 2 or more contiguous parcels of real estate in this state, on which livestock are kept.

(27) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, or other legal entity.

(28) "Poultry" means domesticated fowl commonly used for human food, including domesticated chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, squab, ratites, and captive game birds.

(29) "Premises" means a location that a person registers under a single premises code.

(30) "Premises code" means a code issued under s. ATCP 17.02(7).

(32) "Ratite" means a member of the group of flightless birds that includes the ostrich, emu, cassowary, kiwi, and rhea.

(33) "Register" means to apply for and obtain from the department a premises registration certificate under s. ATCP 17.02.

(36) "Slaughter establishment" means a facility to slaughter animals that is licensed and inspected by the department or USDA.