HAR §4-29-2

HAR §4-29-2. means the state animal quarantine facility in Halawa Valley that is used to quarantine dogs, cats, and other carnivores under this chapter

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Cite as Haw. Code R. § 4-29-2

"Approved hospital" means any veterinary facility approved by the department to provide care for quarantined animals. "Board" means the state board of agriculture. "Booster interval" means the licensed duration of immunity of a vaccine; and the recommended time period for re-administration of a vaccine, to increase or maintain immunity, listed on the manufacturer's label or product insert. "Carnivorous" means subsisting or feeding on animal tissue. "Carrier" means a person employed or engaged in the activity of carrying goods for others for hire, by land, sea, or air. "Chairperson" means the chairperson of the state board of agriculture. "Complete care" means a system relieving the State of all responsibility to care for an animal, whereby an owner assumes the entire responsibility to provide all feeding, cleaning, and monitoring of the health and well-being of an animal in quarantine. "Contact" means any physical union or touching between animals, with or without aggression. "Current", when referring to vaccine or vaccination, means the period of time from the vaccine's administration to arrival in Hawaii has not exceeded the licensed duration of immunity listed on the manufacturer's label or product insert for that vaccine. "Department" means the state department of agriculture. "Designated address" means an address at which the service animal or exempted guide dog will reside while in the State during any portion of the thirty-day post-arrival period. "Diplomat" means Diplomat in a Specialty Board recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association. "Disability", with respect to an individual, means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; a record of such impairment; or being regarded as having such impairment. "Division" means the division of animal industry, department of agriculture. "Double door" means an entry vestibule having an outer door and an inner door arranged such that at least one door is always closed during the entry of visitors or employees. "Effects" means crates used to transport carnivores, and collars, leashes, chains, bedding, dishes, toys, or other objects that may accompany any carnivore. "Eligibility Date" or "Eligible Date" means the date determined by the State that an animal may qualify for five day or less quarantine by meeting all the specified requirements. "Emergency" means any unanticipated, unexpected event which reasonably necessitates a user to travel to the State on an urgent basis, such that the user could not reasonably be expected to have the user's service animal or exempted guide dog meet all 29-4 3289 §4-29-2 pre-entry requirements "Entry" means the release of a dog, cat, or other carnivore into the community after completion of all quarantine and post-quarantine requirements set forth in this chapter. "Exempted guide dog" means a guide dog that has graduated from an approved guide dog training program and that works as a team with its visually impaired user. "Groomer" means a person who brushes, bathes, cleans, or maintains the coat or integument of an animal within an animal quarantine station. "Guest" means a person allowed entry into the animal quarantine station to visit a quarantined animal only when accompanied by an owner, co-owner, or visitor. "Guide dog" means any dog individually trained by a licensed guide dog trainer for guiding a blind person by means of a harness attached to the dog and a rigid handle grasped by the person. "Handler" means a person employed or engaged in holding, taking up, moving, or otherwise affecting the movement of animals "HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes. "Inspector" means a veterinarian, livestock inspector, or any officer or employee of the department of agriculture, authorized and designated by the board of agriculture to enforce the provisions of this chapter. "International Unit" or "I.U." means a standard measurement unit to express the results of an OIE serologic test approved to measure anti-rabies virus antibody. "Microchip" means an implantable micro-electronic device that provides animal identification. "Necessary medical treatment" means that which is directed immediately to the cure or amelioration of the disease or injury. "Neighbor Island" means the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Lanai, and Molokai. "Neighbor Island Inspection Permit" or "NIIP" means a permit issued by the division authorizing the transport, arrival, and entry of an animal at a port or airport on a neighbor island and specifies the port or airport, date of arrival, and identity of the animal and owner. "Office of International Epizooties - rabies virus antibody test" or "OIE- RVA test" means any state-approved serologic test used to measure the levels of rabies antibodies in the serum of animals that has been validated and certified as a test method by the Office of International Epizooties. "Order Carnivora" means any flesh-eating mammal under but not limited to the family Canidae, Ursidae, Procyonidae, Mustelidae, Felidae, Hyaenidae, and Viverridae. "Original document" means a document which is not a facsimile or a photocopy and bears an original or carbon signature. "Owner" or "co-owner" means the person or persons whose name appears on the shipmaster's declaration or a person designated in writing by the owner to act in the 29-5 3289
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