§ 17a.1. Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Act—The Humane Society Police Officer Enforcement Act (3 P. S. § § 456.1—456.7).
Agricultural animal—A bovine animal, equine animal, sheep, goat, pig, poultry, bird, fowl, wild or semiwild animal or fish or other aquatic animal which is being raised, kept, transported or utilized for the purpose of or under agricultural production.
Agricultural production—The production and preparation for market of agricultural animals and their products and of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquacultural crops and commodities.
Approved optional training program—An optional training program that meets the relevant requirements of section 4(a)—(c) of the act (3 P. S. § 456.4(a)—(c)) and has been approved by the Department under authority of section 4(g) of the act.
Cruelty to animals laws—The provisions of 18 Pa.C.S. § 5511 (relating to cruelty to animals).
Department—The Department of Agriculture of the Commonwealth.
Humane society police officer—A person appointed under 22 Pa.C.S. § 501 (relating to appointment by nonprofit corporations) to act as a police officer for a society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The term includes a person who is an agent of a society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals as “agent” is used in 18 Pa.C.S. § 5511.
Land grant institution—Educational institutions located within or outside the geographic boundaries of this Commonwealth which have received a grant of public land made by the Congress of the United States for the support of education under the Morrill Act (7 U.S.C.A. § § 301—308).
Optional training program—A course of instruction for the initial or continuous training of humane society police officers that is developed and administered by an accredited college, an accredited university, an accredited community college or any other public or private entity, and that satisfies the training requirements of section 4(a)—(c) of the act.
Optional training program for the continuous training of humane society police officers—An optional training program that meets the requirements of section 4(c)(5) of the act.
Optional training program for the initial training of humane society police officers—An optional training program that meets the requirements of section 4(c)(1)—(4) of the act.
Person—A corporation, partnership, association, government entity (other than the Commonwealth), estate, trust, foundation, natural person, society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals, college, university or community college.
Society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals—A nonprofit society or association incorporated under 15 Pa.C.S. Chapter 53, Subchapter A (relating to general provisions) for the purpose of the prevention of cruelty to animals.
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