P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 815a
(a) Secretary. — Means the Secretary of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) Person. — Means any natural or juridical person, his agents, employees or representatives.
(c) Inspector. — Means the official or employee of the Department of Agriculture in charge of enforcing §§ 815—815g of this title and of verifying compliance with the standards and regulations established and promulgated hereunder.
(d) Fowls. — Means any vertebrate animal, oviparous, of pulmonary respiration and warm-blooded, horny beak, body covered with feathers, and with two legs and two wings commonly fitted for flight [sic]. The term includes, but without limitation, all those fowl commonly known as cocks, hens, chickens, turkeys, ducks, fighting cocks, geese, guinea hens, doves, peacocks, pheasants, parakeets, and parrots, of any age and of both sexes.
(e) Hatching eggs. — Means fertile eggs of fowl intended for the reproduction thereof.
(f) Infectious and/or contagious diseases. — Means any disease of an infectious and/or contagious nature, including the following, but without construing the enumeration thereof as a limitation of the number of diseases of fowl that may be considered as infectious and/or contagious diseases:
(1) Bacillary white diarrhea (Pullorum)
(2) Fowl typhoid
(3) Chronic respiratory disease (CRD)
(4) Infectious bronchitis
(5) Avian pneumoencephalitis, Newcastle disease
(6) Infectious coryza
(7) Fowl cholera
(8) Fowl pox
(9) Laryngotracheitis
(10) Avian tuberculosis
(11) Paratyphoid infection of fowl
(12) Fowl erysipelas infection
(13) Psittacosis, ornithosis
(14) Blackhead of turkeys, enterohepatitis of turkeys
(15) Infectious synovitis
(16) Any other disease of an infectious and/or contagious nature that may be discovered.
(g) Marketing. — Means the holding, possession, warehousing, purchase, sale, cession, donation, transportation, or any form of handling of the fowls and hatching eggs covered by §§ 815—815g of this title.
History —June 25, 1966, No. 124, p. 383, § 2, eff. 120 days after June 25, 1966.