Part 1 General Provisions 4-32a-101 – 4-32a-102
Part 2 Domesticated Game Slaughter and Processing 4-32a-201 – 4-32a-208

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 4 > Chapter 32a - Domesticated Game Slaughter and Processing

  • Address: includes :
    (i) a post office box number;
    (ii) a rural free delivery route number; and
    (iii) a street name and number. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Agriculture: means the science and art of the production of plants and animals useful to man, including the preparation of plants and animals for human use and disposal by marketing or otherwise. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Animal: means all vertebrate or invertebrate species. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Antemortem inspection: means the inspection of live domesticated game immediately before slaughter. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Articles of incorporation: include :
    (a) amended and restated articles of incorporation;
    (b) articles of merger; and
    (c) a document of a similar import to those described in Subsections (4)(a) and (b). See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Beneficial substances or compounds: means a substance or compound other than primary, secondary, and micro plant nutrients that can be demonstrated by scientific research to be beneficial to one or more species of plants when applied exogenously. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Blender: means a person engaged in the business of blending or mixing fertilizer, soil amendments, or both. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Brand: means a term, design, or trade mark used in connection with one or several grades of fertilizer or soil amendment. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Bylaws: includes amended bylaws and restated bylaws. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Cannabis: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis product: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Cannabis production establishment: means a cannabis cultivation facility, a cannabis processing facility, or an independent cannabis testing laboratory. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Certified applicator: means an individual who is licensed by the department to apply:
    (a) a restricted use pesticide; or
    (b) a general use pesticide for hire or in exchange for compensation. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Certified qualified applicator: means a certified applicator who is eligible to act as a qualifying party. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and food. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Custom blend: means a fertilizer blended according to specification provided to a blender in a soil test nutrient recommendation or to meet the specific consumer request before blending. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deficiency: means the amount of nutrient found by analysis to be less than that guaranteed. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Defoliant: means a substance or mixture intended to cause leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Deliver: includes delivery by mail or another means of transmission authorized by Section 16-10a-103, except that delivery to the division means actual receipt by the division. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Food. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Food created in Chapter 2, Administration. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Desiccant: means a substance or mixture intended to artificially accelerate the drying of plant or animal tissue. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Distribute: means to import, consign, manufacture, produce, compound, mix, blend, or to offer for sale, sell, barter, or supply fertilizer or soil amendments in the state. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter, ship, deliver for shipment, receive, deliver, or offer to deliver pesticides in this state. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Distribution: means the following by a corporation to or for the benefit of its shareholders in respect of any of the corporation's shares:
    (i) a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property, other than a corporation's own shares; or
    (ii) incurrence of indebtedness by the corporation. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Division: means the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Domesticated game: means one of the following that is commercially raised for wholesale or retail sale to a restaurant, store, or end consumer:
    (a) a domesticated elk;
    (b) a bison;
    (c) a game bird; or
    (d) a rabbit. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Domesticated game carcass: means any part of the slaughtered body of domesticated game, including entrails and edible meats. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Domesticated game slaughter: means the slaughter of domesticated game that is not regulated under Chapter 32, Utah Meat and Poultry Products Inspection and Licensing Act. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Employee: includes an officer but not a director, unless the director accepts a duty that makes that director also an employee. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • End consumer: means an individual who:
    (a) purchases a product directly from an agricultural operation or a facility licensed to perform custom exempt processing, as defined in Section 4-32-105; and
    (b) does not resell the purchased product. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Entity: includes :
    (a) a domestic and foreign corporation;
    (b) a nonprofit corporation;
    (c) a limited liability company;
    (d) a profit or nonprofit unincorporated association;
    (e) a business trust;
    (f) an estate;
    (g) a partnership;
    (h) a trust;
    (i) two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest;
    (j) a state;
    (k) the United States; and
    (l) a foreign government. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Environment: means all living plants and animals, water, air, land, and the interrelationships that exist between them. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • EPA: means the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Equipment: means any type of ground, water, or aerial equipment or contrivance using motorized, mechanical, or pressurized power to apply a pesticide. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Farm custom slaughter license: means a farm custom slaughter license issued under Section 4-32-107. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Fertilizer: means a substance that contains one or more recognized plant nutrients that is used for the substance's plant nutrient content and is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, exclusive of unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, marl, lime, limestone, wood ashes, gypsum, and other products exempted by rule. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Fertilizer material: means a fertilizer that contains:
    (a) quantities of no more than one of the primary plant nutrients, nitrogen (N), phosphate (P2O5), Potash (K2O);
    (b) 85% plant nutrients in the form of a single chemical compound; or
    (c) plant or animal residues or by-products, or a natural material deposit that is processed so that its primary plant nutrients have not been materially changed, except through purification and concentration. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fungus: means a nonchlorophyll-bearing thallophyte or a nonchlorophyll-bearing plant of an order lower than mosses and liverworts, including rust, smut, mildew, mold, yeast, and bacteria. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Grade: means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphate and soluble potash stated in the same terms, order, and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Guaranteed analysis: means the minimum percentage by weight of plant nutrients claimed in the following order and form:
    Total Nitrogen (N)
    ____ percent. See Utah Code 4-13-102
  • Herbicide: means a substance that is toxic to plants and is used to control or eliminate unwanted vegetation. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Home delivery medical cannabis pharmacy: means a medical cannabis pharmacy that the department authorizes, as part of the pharmacy's license, to deliver medical cannabis shipments to a delivery address to fulfill electronic orders that the state central patient portal facilitates. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Insect: means an invertebrate animal generally having a more or less obviously segmented body:
    (a) usually belonging to the Class Insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, including beetles, bugs, bees, and flies; and
    (b) allied classes of arthropods that are wingless usually having more than six legs, including spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Label: means any written, printed, or graphic matter on, or attached to, a pesticide or a container or wrapper of a pesticide. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Labeling: means all labels and all other written, printed, or graphic matter:
    (i) accompanying a pesticide or equipment; or
    (ii) to which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying a pesticide or equipment. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Land: means land, water, air, and plants, animals, structures, buildings, contrivances, and machinery appurtenant or situated thereon, whether fixed or mobile, including any used for transportation. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Medical cannabis: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis pharmacy: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medical cannabis pharmacy agent: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Medicinal dosage form: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-4-201. See Utah Code 4-41a-102
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Nematode: means invertebrate animals of the Phylum Nemathelminthes and Class Nematoda, including unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or saclike bodies covered with cuticle, also known as nemas or eelworms. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Notice: is a s provided in Section 16-10a-103. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Organization: means a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means a natural person or individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Pest: means :
    (i) any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed; or
    (ii) any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life, virus, bacteria, or other microorganism that is injurious to health or to the environment or that the department declares to be a pest. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide: means any:
    (a) substance or mixture of substances, including a living organism, that is intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, attract, or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, snail, slug, fungus, weed, or other form of plant or animal life that is normally considered to be a pest or that the commissioner declares to be a pest;
    (b) any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant;
    (c) any spray adjuvant, such as a wetting agent, spreading agent, deposit builder, adhesive, or emulsifying agent with deflocculating properties of its own used with a pesticide to aid the pesticide's application or effect; and
    (d) any other substance designated by the department by rule. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide applicator: is a person who:
    (a) applies or supervises the application of a pesticide; and
    (b) is required by this chapter to have a license. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide applicator business: means an entity that:
    (i) is authorized to do business in this state; and
    (ii) offers pesticide application services. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Pesticide dealer: means any person who distributes restricted use pesticides. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Plant regulator: means any substance or mixture intended, through physiological action, to accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Postmortem inspection: means the inspection of a domesticated game carcass after slaughter. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Principal office: means the office, in or out of this state, designated by a domestic or foreign corporation as its principal office in the most recent document on file with the division providing the information, including:
    (a) an annual report;
    (b) an application for a certificate of authority; or
    (c) a notice of change of principal office. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Process: means to cut, grind, manufacture, compound, smoke, intermix, or prepare products from a domesticated game carcass. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Qualifying party: means a certified qualified applicator who is the owner or employee of a pesticide applicator business and who is registered with the department as the individual responsible for ensuring the training, equipping, and supervision of all pesticide applicators who work for the pesticide applicator business. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Receive: when used in reference to receipt of a writing or other document by a domestic or foreign corporation, means the writing or other document is actually received by:
    (a) the corporation at its:
    (i) registered office in this state; or
    (ii) principal office;
    (b) the secretary of the corporation, wherever the secretary is found; or
    (c) another person authorized by the bylaws or the board of directors to receive the writing or other document, wherever that person is found. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Record date: means the date established under 6, or 7, on which a corporation determines the identity of its shareholders. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Restricted use pesticide: means :
    (a) a pesticide, including a highly toxic pesticide, that is a serious hazard to beneficial insects, animals, or land; or
    (b) any pesticide or pesticide use restricted by the administrator of EPA or by the commissioner. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). Source: OCC
  • Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the bylaws or the board of directors delegates responsibility under Subsection 16-10a-830(3) for:
    (a) the preparation and maintenance of:
    (i) minutes of the meetings of the board of directors and of the shareholders; and
    (ii) the other records and information required to be kept by the corporation by Section 16-10a-830; and
    (b) authenticating records of the corporation. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Share: means the unit into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Shareholder: means :
    (i) the person in whose name a share is registered in the records of a corporation; or
    (ii) the beneficial owner of a share to the extent recognized pursuant to Section 16-10a-723. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Slaughter: means killing domesticated game in a humane manner, including skinning or dressing. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Veterinarian: means a veterinarian licensed under Title 58, Chapter 28, Veterinary Practice Act, who has successfully completed formal training in antemortem inspection and postmortem inspection. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Veterinarian designee: means an individual designated by a veterinarian as successfully completing formal training in antemortem inspection and postmortem inspection. See Utah Code 4-32a-201
  • Voting group: means all shares of one or more classes or series that under the articles of incorporation or this chapter are entitled to vote and be counted together collectively on a matter at a meeting of shareholders. See Utah Code 16-10a-102
  • Weed: means any plant that grows where not wanted. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Wildlife: means all living things that are neither human, domesticated, nor pests. See Utah Code 4-14-102
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5