The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Agent" means any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation buying, receiving, soliciting, or negotiating the sale of poultry for or on behalf of any poultry dealer.
"Approved disinfectant" means any chemical approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as a disinfectant when used according to direction for the purpose specified.
"Biosecurity" means a regimen of cleaning poultry-related equipment and the disinfection of such equipment with an approved disinfectant to prevent the spread of avian influenza and other infectious and contagious poultry diseases.
"Dealer" or "poultry dealer" means any person who engages in the business of buying and selling, exchanging, or bartering eggs or live poultry in the Commonwealth of Virginia for his own account or that of another person.
"Poultry" means all domestic birds, including but not limited to chickens, ducks, and turkeys, as well as all native and exotic wild birds, including those wild birds indigenous to the Commonwealth.
2 Va. Admin. Code § 5-170-10
Statutory Authority
§§ 3.2-6002, 3.2-5902, and 3.2-6011 of the Code of Virginia.