Except where the context otherwise requires, for the purposes of this article the following terms shall be construed, respectively, to mean:

1. (a) Person. A natural person, firm or corporation.
2. (b) Poultry. Live fowl, including chickens, turkeys, waterfowl and game birds which are propagated and maintained under the control of any person for any purpose.
3. (c) Hatching eggs. Eggs for use in a hatchery to produce young poultry or embryonated eggs.
4. (d) Hatchery. Incubators, hatchers and auxiliary equipment on one premise operated and controlled by any person for the hatching of poultry.
5. (e) Flock. All of the poultry on one premise, except that, at the discretion of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission, any group of poultry which is segregated from other poultry and has been so segregated for a period of at least twenty-one days may be considered as a separate flock.
6. (f) Pullorum disease or pullorum. A disease of poultry caused by salmonella pullorum.
7. (g) Fowl typhoid or hyphoid. A disease of poultry caused by salmonella gallinarum.

HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 643 Section 1; 1994 Act No. 362, Section 31, eff May 3, 1994.