Title 15, TITLE 15. AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS

Sec. 7. As used in this chapter, "bulk fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer distributed in nonpackaged form. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-3-3-3(13).] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.81-2009, SEC.9.

Sec. 8. As used in this chapter, "commercial fertilizer" means mixed fertilizer or fertilizer materials. The term does not include nonprocessed manure, marl, lime, wood ashes, or plaster. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-3-3-3(3).] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.7.

Sec. 9. As used in this chapter, "custom blend" means a commercial fertilizer blended: (1) according to specifications provided to a blender in a soil test nutrient recommendation; or (2) to meet specific requests of a consumer (who is the end user) before blending. [Pre-2008 Rec…

Sec. 1. The definitions in this chapter apply throughout this article. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-1(a).] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 10. "Bulk milk hauler/sampler" means a person who does the following: (1) Collects official samples. (2) May transport raw milk in bulk form. (3) Transports milk to or from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-9.2.…

Sec. 100. "Transport vehicle" means a vehicle used for transporting: (1) dead animal bodies; (2) nonedible byproducts from the slaughtering of animals and poultry; or (3) restaurant grease. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-52.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.…

Sec. 101. "Tuberculosis" means tuberculosis in an animal. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-53.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 102. "Veterinarian" means a person authorized by law to practice veterinary medicine. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-54.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 11. "Bulk milk pickup tanker" means a vehicle, including the truck, tank, and associated equipment necessary for its use, used by a bulk milk hauler/sampler to transport bulk raw milk for pasteurization from a dairy farm to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer statio…

Sec. 12. "Bulk milk route" means a group of dairy farms from which milk is collected in a bulk milk pickup tanker and transported to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-9.4.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 13. "Can milk hauler" or "cream hauler" means a person who transports raw fluid milk in cans to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-9.5.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 14. "Can milk route" means a group of dairy farms from which milk is collected in milk cans and transported to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-9.6.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 15. "Capable of use as human food" means any livestock or poultry carcass or part or product of a livestock or poultry carcass, unless the carcass or part or product of the carcass is: (1) denatured or identified as not for human food as required by rules adopted by the boar…

Sec. 16. "Certificate" and "certificate of veterinary inspection" means an official document issued by a state or federal representative or an accredited veterinarian that records a veterinary inspection of an animal, statements about the health of an animal, tests conducted on a…

Sec. 17. "Certified brucellosis free herd" means a herd that is certified as free from brucellosis as defined by rules of the board and regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture made under any cooperative agreement authorized by this article. [Pre-2008 Recodifica…

Sec. 17.5. "Cervidae", for purposes of IC 15-17-14.5 and IC 15-17-14.7, means privately owned members of the cervidae family, including deer, elk, moose, reindeer, and caribou. As added by P.L.89-2016, SEC.12.

Sec. 18. "Color additive" has the meaning set forth in the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.). [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-10.5.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8. IC 15-17-2-19 "Commerce" Sec. 19. "Commerce" means commerce within Indiana. […

Sec. 2. "Adulterated" means a food product that meets any of the following descriptions: (1) The product bears or contains a poisonous or deleterious substance that may make the product injurious to health. However, if the substance is not an added substance, the product is not c…

Sec. 20. "Concentration point" means a licensed place of business under IC 15-17-14 where only feeder pigs, to which the licensee has taken title, are assembled for resale. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-11.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 21. (a) "Consignor" means any person consigning, shipping, or delivering animals for sale, resale, or exchange. (b) The term includes any person who causes animals to be transported or who delivers animals to a livestock auction market for the purpose of sale. [Pre-2008 Reco…

Sec. 22. "Container" means any box, can, tin, cloth, package, plastic, or other receptacle, wrapper, or cover. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-12.5.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 23. "Dairy farm" means a place: (1) where at least one (1) lactating cow, sheep, goat, water buffalo, or other hoofed mammal is kept; and (2) from which a part or all of the milk or milk products that are produced are provided, sold, or offered for sale to a milk plant, tran…

Sec. 24. (a) Except as specifically exempted or excluded by this article, "dealer" means any person who is engaged in the business of buying, selling, or negotiating the transfer of livestock: (1) for processing into meat products in conjunction with the operation of a business e…

Sec. 25. (a) "Disposal plant" means any plant and all associated equipment that is constructed or intended to be operated for the disposal of the following: (1) The bodies of dead animals not slaughtered and intended for human food. (2) The nonedible byproducts from the slaughter…

Sec. 26. (a) "Domestic animal" means an animal that is not wild. (b) The term is limited to: (1) cattle, calves, horses, mules, swine, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, poultry, ostriches, rhea, emus, or other birds; (2) an animal of the bovine, equine, ovine, caprine, porcine, canine, f…

Sec. 27. "Employee" means a person employed by the board, including the state veterinarian, assistant state veterinarian, deputies, and assistants. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-16.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 28. "Establishment", for purposes of IC 15-17-5, means a building, part of a building, or other location used for: (1) slaughtering livestock or poultry; or (2) preparing meat, poultry, meat food products, and meat byproducts capable of use as human food. [Pre-2008 Recodific…

Sec. 29. "Federal acts", for purposes of IC 15-17-5, means the following: (1) The federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). (2) The federal Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.). [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-16.5.] As added by P.L.2-200…

Sec. 3. "Animal" means a member of the animal kingdom, except humans. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-2.5.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 30. "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" means the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.). [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-16.7.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 31. "Feeder pig" means swine of any breed weighing not more than one hundred eighty (180) pounds. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-17.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 32. "Food" means the following: (1) All articles used for food, drink, confectionary, or condiment whether simple, mixed, or compound. (2) All substances or ingredients used in the preparation of the items described in subdivision (1). [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2…

Sec. 33. "Food additive" has the meaning set forth in the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.). [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-19.5.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 34. (a) "Garbage" means: (1) any waste material derived in whole or in part from any animal, including fish and poultry; or (2) refuse from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food that has been associated with waste material derived in whole or in part fro…

Sec. 35. "Grade A dry milk and whey products" means milk products that have been: (1) produced for use in Grade A pasteurized or aseptically processed milk products; and (2) manufactured under the federal Food and Drug Administration "Grade A Condensed and Dry Milk Products ) Con…

Sec. 36. "Grade A milk and milk products" means milk and milk products that meet the requirements for Grade A in IC 15-18-1 and in the rules adopted under IC 15-18-1. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-20.7.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 37. "Herd", except as provided in IC 15-17-3-22(a), means a group or groups of animals that are: (1) maintained on common ground; or (2) geographically separated but under common ownership, supervision, or control. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-21.2.] As added …

Sec. 38. (a) "Humane method" means a method by which livestock is made insensible to pain by mechanical, electrical, chemical, or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast, or cut. (b) The term does not include the use of a manually ope…

Sec. 38.5. "Hunting preserve", for purposes of IC 15-17-14.7, has the meaning set forth in IC 15-17-14.7-1. As added by P.L.89-2016, SEC.13.

Sec. 39. "Immediate container" means a container, receptacle, or other covering in which milk products, livestock products, or poultry products are directly contained or wholly or partially enclosed. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-21.7.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8…

Sec. 4. "Antemortem inspection" means the inspection of all livestock or poultry before slaughter on the day of slaughter at an official establishment. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-3.2.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 40. (a) "Immediate slaughter" means any animal purchased or sold for: (1) immediate slaughter; or (2) slaughter and will be slaughtered by the purchaser not later than seven (7) days after purchase or will be consigned to an establishment or to a properly licensed market fac…

Sec. 41. "Inedible" means not suitable for human consumption. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-23.1.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8. IC 15-17-2-42 "Inspector" Sec. 42. "Inspector" means an individual who is authorized by the board to perform any inspection functions un…

Sec. 43. "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon an article or the immediate container, excluding package liners, of an article. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-23.5.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 44. "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter: (1) placed upon an article or any of the article's containers or wrappers; or (2) accompanying an article. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-23.7.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.…

Sec. 45. "Laboratory" means: (1) the animal disease diagnostic laboratory established by IC 21-46-3-1; or (2) any other laboratory approved by the board. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-24.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 46. "Licensed and accredited veterinarian" means a veterinarian: (1) licensed by any state; and (2) accredited by the United States Department of Agriculture under 9 CFR Subchapter J to perform official functions. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-26.] As added by …

Sec. 47. (a) "Livestock", except as provided in subsection (b), means domestic animals, except the following: (1) Aquatic animals. (2) Fish. (3) Dogs. (4) Cats. (5) Poultry and other birds; however, the term includes ratites that are domestic animals under section 26 of this chap…

Sec. 48. "Livestock auction market" means an established place of business and contiguous surroundings where animals are consigned to be sold at public auction by the operator of the business as an agent for the consignor in exchange for a commission paid by the consignor. [Pre-2…

Sec. 49. "Livestock product" means: (1) a carcass; (2) part of a carcass; (3) meat; or (4) a meat food product; of livestock. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-2-27.3.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.