Bill Text: MI SB0683 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Animals; other; definition of aquaculture; provide for in the animal industry act. Amends sec. 3 of 1988 PA 466 (MCL 287.703). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0681'15, SB 0682'15
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-12-16 - Referred To Committee On Agriculture [SB0683 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0683-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 683
December 16, 2015, Introduced by Senators BOOHER, ROBERTSON, SHIRKEY and CASPERSON and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend 1988 PA 466, entitled
"Animal industry act,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 287.703), as amended by 2002 PA 458.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. (1) "Accredited veterinarian" means a veterinarian
approved
by the administrator of the United States department of
agriculture,
animal and plant health inspection service Department
of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in
accordance
with provisions of 9 C.F.R. CFR part 161, and considered
preapproved
to perform certain functions of federal and cooperative
state/federal
programs.described in 9 CFR
part 161.
(2) "Animal" means mollusks, crustaceans, and vertebrates
other than human beings including, but not limited to, livestock,
exotic animals, aquaculture, and domestic animals.
(3) "Animal movement certificate" means animal movement
authorization established in a manner approved and issued by the
director that contains, at a minimum, the following information
regarding animals or an animal:
(a) The point of origin and point of destination.
(b) Official identification.
(c) Anticipated movement date.
(d) Any required official test results for bovine
tuberculosis.
(4)
"Aquaculture" means the commercial husbandry of
aquaculture
species on the approved list of aquaculture species
under
the Michigan aquaculture development act, 1996 PA 199, MCL
286.871
to 286.884, including, but not limited to, the culturing,
producing,
growing, using, propagating, harvesting, transporting,
importing,
exporting, or marketing of any products, coproducts, or
by-products
of fish, crustaceans, mollusks, reptiles, and
amphibians,
reared or cultured under controlled conditions in an
aquaculture
facility.that term as defined
in section 2 of the
Michigan aquaculture development act, 1996 PA 199, MCL 286.872.
(5)
"Aquaculture facility" means that term as defined under in
section 2 of the Michigan aquaculture development act, 1996 PA 199,
MCL
286.871 to 286.884.MCL
286.872.
(6) "Approved vaccine" means a veterinary biological
administered to livestock or other animals to induce immunity in
the recipient and approved by the state veterinarian.
(7) "Carcasses" means the dead bodies of animals, poultry, or
aquaculture. Carcasses do not include rendered products.
(8)
"Cattle" means all bovine (genus bos) Bos) animals,
bovinelike
animals (genus bison) Bison)
also commonly referred to
as American buffalo or bison and any cross of these species unless
otherwise specifically provided.
(9) "Cattle importation lot" means a premises registered with
the department and used only to feed cattle in preparation for
slaughter.
(10) "Commingling" means concurrently or subsequently sharing
or subsequent use by livestock or other domestic animals of the
same pen or same section in a facility or same section in a
transportation unit where there is physical contact or contact with
bodily excrements, aerosols, or fluids from other livestock or
domestic animals.
(11) "Consignee" means the person receiving the animals at the
point of destination named on the official interstate or intrastate
health certificate, official interstate certificate of veterinary
inspection or animal movement certificate, entry authorization
form, fish disease inspection report, owner-shipper statement, or
sales invoice.
(12) "Contagious disease" means an illness due to a specific
infectious agent or suspected infectious agent or its toxic
products
which that arises through transmission of that agent or
its products from an infected animal, or inanimate reservoir to a
susceptible host, either directly or indirectly through an
intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate
environment, or via an airborne mechanism.
(13) "Dealer" means any person required to be licensed under
1937 PA 284, MCL 287.121 to 287.131, and engaged in the business of
buying, receiving, selling, exchanging, transporting, negotiating,
or soliciting the sale, resale, exchange, transportation, or
transfer of livestock.
(14)
"Department" means the Michigan department of agriculture
and rural development.
(15) "Direct movement" means transfer of animals to a
destination without unloading the animals en route and without
exposure to any other animals or bodily excrements, aerosols, or
fluids from other animals.
(16)
"Director" means the director of the Michigan department
of
agriculture or his or her
authorized representative.
(17) "Disease" means any animal health condition with
potential for economic impact, public or animal health concerns, or
food safety concerns.
(18) "Distribute" means to deliver other than by administering
or dispensing a veterinary biological.
(19) "Domestic animal" means those species of animals that
live under the husbandry of humans.
(20) "Emergency fish diseases" means certain infectious
diseases of fish that are transmissible directly or indirectly from
1 fish to another and are not known to exist within the waters of
the state. Emergency fish diseases include, but are not limited to,
viral hemorrhagic septicemia, infectious hematopoietic necrosis,
ceratomyxosis, and proliferative kidney disease.
(21) "Equine" means all animals of the equine family, which
includes horses, asses, jacks, jennies, hinnies, mules, donkeys,
burros, ponies, and zebras.
(22) "Exhibition or exposition" means a congregation,
gathering, or collection of livestock that are presented or exposed
to public view for show, display, swap, exchange, entertainment,
educational event, instruction, advertising, or competition.
Exhibition or exposition does not include livestock for sale at
public stockyards, auctions, saleyards, and livestock yards
licensed
under the provisions of 1937 PA 284, MCL 287.121 to
287.131.
(23) "Exhibition facility" means any facility used or intended
to be used for public view, show, display, swap, exchange,
entertainment, advertisement, educational event, or competition
involving livestock. Exhibition facility does not include a public
stockyard,
an auction saleyard, and or
a livestock yard where
livestock are accepted on consignment and the auction method is
used in the marketing of the livestock.
(24) "Exhibitor" means any person who presents livestock for
public display, exhibition, or competition or enters livestock in a
fair, show, exhibition, or exposition.
(25) "Exotic animal" means those animals that are not native
to North America.
(26) "Fair" means a competition and educational exhibition of
agricultural commodities and manufactured products for which
premiums may be paid and which is conducted by an association or
governmental entity.
(27)
"Feral swine" means swine which that have lived their
life or any part of their life as free roaming or not under the
husbandry of humans.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 98th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 682.
(b) Senate Bill No. 681.
