[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR93.300]

[Page 426-427]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
   PART 93_IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND POULTRY,
   AND CERTAIN ANIMAL, BIRD, AND POULTRY PRODUCTS; REQUIREMENTS FOR
 
                            Subpart C_Horses
 
Sec. 93.300  Definitions.


    Wherever in this subpart the following terms are used, unless the 
context otherwise requires, they shall be construed, respectively, to 
mean:
    Accredited veterinarian. A veterinarian approved by the 
Administrator in accordance with the provisions of part 161 of this 
title to perform functions specified in parts 1, 2, 3, and 11 of 
subchapter A, and subchapters B, C, and D of this chapter, and to 
perform functions required by cooperative State-Federal disease control 
and eradication programs.
    Administrator. The Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service or any other employee of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, to whom 
authority has been or may be delegated to act in the Administrator's 
stead.
    Animals. Cattle, sheep, goats, other ruminants, swine, horses, 
asses, mules, zebras, dogs, and poultry.
    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture 
(APHIS or Service).
    APHIS representative. A veterinarian or other individual employed by 
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department 
of Agriculture, who is authorized to perform the services required by 
this part.
    Code of practice. A voluntary system of procedures designed to 
reduce disease spread, that is established by the veterinarians and 
horse industry in a region and that includes procedures for

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the following: Testing for and treatment of the diseases, quarantine of 
horses that are affected with or are suspected of being affected with 
the disease, certification of whether horses have been affected with or 
exposed to the disease, and hygiene for personnel conducting treatments 
and specimen collections.
    Communicable disease. Any contagious, infectious, or communicable 
disease of domestic livestock, poultry or other animals.
    Department. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
    Fever tick. Boophilus annulatus, including, but not limited to, the 
varieties Americana and Australia.
    Horses. Horses, asses, mules, and zebras.
    Immediate slaughter. Consignment directly from the port of entry to 
a recognized slaughtering establishment \1\ and slaughter thereat within 
two weeks from the date of entry.
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    \1\ The name of recognized slaughtering establishments approved 
under this part may be obtained from the Area Veterinarian in Charge, 
Veterinary Services, for the State of destination of the shipment.
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    Inspector. An employee of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service authorized to perform duties required under this subpart.
    Licensed Veterinarian. Any person licensed by any country or 
political subdivision thereof to practice veterinary medicine.
    Operator. For the purposes of Sec. 93.308, any person operating an 
approved quarantine facility.
    Persons. Any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, 
partnership, society or joint stock company.
    Port Veterinarian. A veterinarian employed by the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service to perform duties required under this part at 
a port of entry.
    Recognized slaughtering establishment.\2\ An establishment where 
slaughtering operations are regularly carried on under federal or state 
inspection and which has been approved by the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service to receive animals for slaughter under this part.
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    \2\ See footnote 1 to subpart C.
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    Region. Any defined geographic land area identifiable by geological, 
political, or surveyed boundaries. A region may consist of any of the 
following:
    (1) A national entity (country);
    (2) Part of a national entity (zone, county, department, 
municipality, parish, Province, State, etc.)
    (3) Parts of several national entities combined into an area; or
    (4) A group of national entities (countries) combined into a single 
area.
    State animal health official. The State official responsible for 
livestock and poultry disease control and eradication programs.
    United States. All of the States of the United States, the District 
of Columbia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
Islands of the United States, and all other Territories and Possessions 
of the United States.
    Veterinarian in Charge. The veterinary official of the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of 
Agriculture, who is assigned by the Administrator to supervise and 
perform the official animal health work of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service in the State concerned.
    Veterinary Services. The Veterinary Services unit of the Department.
    Weanling or yearling. Any horse, weaned from its dam, that was 
foaled not more than 731 days prior to its being offered for entry into 
the United States. A horse will not be considered to be a weanling or 
yearling if its first permanent incisors have erupted.

[55 FR 31495, Aug. 2, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 15489, Apr. 17, 1991; 61 
FR 52239, Oct. 7, 1996. Redesignated and amended at 62 FR 56012, 56016, 
Oct. 28, 1997]