1. (a) “Person” means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company.
2. (b) “Department” means the State Department of Health Services.
3. (c) “Animal” means any wild animal or bird specified by the Department under provisions of Chapter 14, Division 20, of the Health and Safety Code.
4. (d) “Veterinarian” means a person authorized to practice veterinary medicine under provisions of Chapter 11, Division 2, California Business and Professions Code.
5. (e) “Standards” means the requirements with respect to the quarantine housing, handling, care, treatment, and transportation of imported animals.
6. (f) “Primate” means a nonhuman member of the highest order of mammals, including prosimians, monkeys, and apes as specified in Section 30072.
7. (g) “Euthanasia” means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that involves instantaneous unconsciousness and immediate death or by a method that involves anesthesia, produced by an agent which causes painless loss of consciousness, and death during such loss of consciousness.

For the purposes of these regulations:

Note: Authority cited: Sections 208 and 25990.5, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section 25990.5, Health and Safety Code.

History

1. Amendment filed 12-14-88; operative 1-13-89 (Register 88, No. 53).