Definitions

For purposes of this Article:

(a)Carrier means any individual, partnership, corporation or any other group or combination acting in concert which shall transport any animal into, through or upon Guam.

(b)Designated inspection area means an area designated by the Director of the Department of COL6/24/2021 CH. 34 KEEPING ANIMALS Agriculture.

(c)Dog or cat means domestic species of dogs and cats only. Nothing in this Act shall allow for the importation of pet wolves, foxes, skunks, raccoons, civets, hyenas, weasels, and wolverines, animals of the Order Marsupialia, including opossums, koalas, kangaroos or animals of the Order Chiroptera, including bats.

(d)Impoundment means strict confinement under restraint by leash, cage or paddock upon premises specified by order of the Director.

(e)International Unit (I.U.) means a unit of measure agreed upon by scientists of a field.

(f)Officer means a member of the Guam Police Department, a Mayor of Guam, or a person authorized by the Director.

(g)OIE-FAVN means the World Organization for Animal Health Fluorescent Antibody Virus Neutralization test, a type of blood test used to determine the quantity of rabies antibodies in the bloodstream.

(h)Quarantine means strict isolated impoundment.

(i)Rabies means the acute infectious disease of the central nervous system caused by a filterable virus, most frequently transmitted by the bite of infected animals and commonly referred to as “hydrophobia”.

(j)Titer means a concentration of a substance in a solution.