New Mexico Statutes Chapter 77. Animals and Livestock § 77-2-1.1. Definitions

A. “animals” or “livestock” means all domestic or domesticated animals that are used or raised on a farm or ranch, including the carcasses thereof, and exotic animals in captivity and includes equines, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, bison, poultry, ostriches, emus, rheas, camelids and farmed cervidae upon any land in New Mexico. “Animals” or “livestock” does not include canine or feline animals;

B. “bill of sale” means an instrument in substantially the form specified in The Livestock Code by which the owner or the owner's authorized agent transfers to the buyer the title to animals described in the bill of sale;

C. “bison” or “buffalo” means a bovine animal of the species bison;

D. “board” means the New Mexico livestock board;

E. “bond” means cash or an insurance agreement from a New Mexico licensed surety or insurance corporation pledging surety for financial loss caused to another, including certificate of deposit, letter of credit or other surety as may be approved by the grain inspection, packers and stockyards administration of the United States department of agriculture or the board;

F. “brand” means a symbol or device in a form approved by and recorded with the board as may be sufficient to readily distinguish livestock should they become intermixed with other livestock;

G. “brand inspector” means an inspector who is not certified as a peace officer;

H. “carcasses” means dead or dressed bodies of livestock or parts thereof;

I. “cattle” means animals of the genus bos, including dairy cattle, and does not include any other kind of livestock;

J. “dairy cattle” means animals of the genus bos raised not for consumption but for dairy products and distinguished from meat breed cattle;

K. “director” means the executive director of the board;

L. “disease” means a communicable, infectious or contagious disease;

M. “district” means a livestock inspection district;

N. “equine” means a horse, pony, mule, donkey or hinny;

O. “estray” means livestock found running at large upon public or private lands, either fenced or unfenced, whose owner is unknown, or that is branded with a brand that is not on record in the office of the board or is a freshly branded or marked offspring not with its branded or marked mother, unless other proof of ownership is produced;

P. “inspector” means a livestock or brand inspector;

Q. “livestock inspector” means a certified inspector who is granted full law enforcement powers for enforcement of The Livestock Code and other criminal laws relating to livestock;

R. “mark” means an ear tag or ownership mark that is not a brand;

S. “meat” means the edible flesh of poultry, birds or animals sold for human consumption and includes livestock, poultry and livestock and poultry products;

T. “mule” means a hybrid resulting from the cross of a horse and an ass; and

U. “person” means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation or similar legal entity.