As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Board” means the Board of Agriculture.
(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Agriculture.
(3) “Animals” include all members of species equine, ovine, bovine, porcine, feline, canine, lapin and avian.
(4) “Communicable disease” includes hog cholera, brucellosis, leptospirosis, anthrax, black leg, catarrhal influenza in cattle, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease or aphthous fever, glanders, hemorrhagic septicemia, maladie du coit or dourine, mange of cattle, necrobacillosis and foot rot in sheep, hydrophobia, rinderpest, scabies in cattle, Texas tick or southern cattle fever, tuberculosis or any other disease proclaimed by the board to be of a transmissible character.
(5) “Loading platform” means any place operated by a license holder for dead animals, poultry and fish or parts thereof which are collected for loading onto trucks which will then take them to rendering plants.
(6) “License holder” means any person who has completed the necessary application to the department and the department has issued a license under the terms of this chapter.
(7) “Department” means the Department of Agriculture.
History: Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 47, sec. 1.