§ 4700.0-5 Definitions.

As used in this part, the term:

(a)

Act

means the Act of December 15, 1971, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1331-1340), commonly referred to as the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.

(b)

Authorized officer

means any employee of the Bureau of Land Management to whom has been delegated the authority to perform the duties described herein.

(c)

Commercial exploitation

means using a wild horse or burro because of its characteristics of wildness for direct or indirect financial gain. Characteristics of wildness include the rebellious and feisty nature of such animals and their defiance of man as exhibited in their undomesticated and untamed state. Use as saddle or pack stock and other uses that require domestication of the animal are not commercial exploitation of the animals because of their characteristics of wildness.

(d)

Herd area

means the geographic area identified as having been used by a herd as its habitat in 1971.

(e)

Humane treatment

means handling compatible with animal husbandry practices accepted in the veterinary community, without causing unnecessary stress or suffering to a wild horse or burro.

(f)

Inhumane treatment

means any intentional or negligent action or failure to act that causes stress, injury, or undue suffering to a wild horse or burro and is not compatible with animal husbandry practices accepted in the veterinary community.

(g)

Lame wild horse or burro

means a wild horse or burro with one or more malfunctioning limbs that permanently impair its freedom of movement.

(h)

Old wild horse or burro

means a wild horse or burro characterized because of age by its physical deterioration and inability to fend for itself, suffering, or closeness to death.

(i)

Private maintenance

means the provision of proper care and humane treatment to excess wild horses and burros by qualified individuals under the terms and conditions specified in a Private Maintenance and Care Agreement.

d wild horse or burro

means a wild horse or burro characterized because of age by its physical deterioration and inability to fend for itself, suffering, or closeness to death.

(i)

Private maintenance

means the provision of proper care and humane treatment to excess wild horses and burros by qualified individuals under the terms and conditions specified in a Private Maintenance and Care Agreement.

(j)

Public lands

means any lands or interests in lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management.

(k)

Sick wild horse or burro

means a wild horse or burro with failing health, infirmity or disease from which there is little chance of recovery.

(l)

Wild horses and burros

means all unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros that use public lands as all or part of their habitat, that have been removed from these lands by the authorized officer, or that have been born of wild horses or burros in authorized BLM facilities, but have not lost their status under section 3 of the Act. Foals born to a wild horse or burro after approval of a Private Maintenance and Care Agreement are not wild horses or burros. Such foals are the property of the adopter of the parent mare or jenny. Where it appears in this part the term

wild horses and burros

is deemed to include the term

free-roaming.

[51 FR 7414, Mar. 3, 1986, as amended at 59 FR 28275, June 1, 1994]