ARM 32.3.1303. IDENTIFICATION

(1) Official identification is required for qualifying animals involved in the following: (a) importation; (b) entry into interstate marketing channels; (c) change of ownership; or (d) exhibition. (2) Official identification must be made to the flock of birth or the flock of origin. (3) The following groups of animals are required to be officially identified: (a) sexually intact sheep and goats, regardless of age; (b) all sheep over 18 months of age; (c) all scrapie-suspect and test-positive animals; (d) all scrapie-exposed or scrapie high-risk animals; and (e) all animals in scrapie-source, scrapie-infected, scrapie-exposed, or scrapie-non-compliant flocks. (4) Animals that are exempt from the individual official identification requirement are: (a) sheep and goats under 18 months of age in recognized slaughter channels; (b) wethers for exhibition; (c) low-risk commercial goats as defined in the Scrapie Eradication Uniform Methods and Rules; (d) sheep and goats moved for grazing purposes with no change of ownership; and (e) animals from a registered premises and moved as a group lot directly to an approved slaughter facility or to an approved market and accompanied by an owner's statement as defined in the Scrapie Eradication Uniform Methods and Rules.