# Agriculture (GAG)

## Title 3. Regulation of Livestock and Poultry

### Subtitle 8. Regulation of Poultry to Protect Animal Health and Control Avian Influenza

#### Section 3-801

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Live poultry market" means any facility or location where poultry:

  (1) Is offered for sale, sold, distributed, or transferred; or

  (2) Is slaughtered and sold on-site.

(c) "Poultry" means any living domesticated bird.

(d) "Poultry dealer" means a person who engages in the business of buying, selling, exchanging, or transporting poultry between a production facility and a live poultry market.

(e) "Production facility" means the facility or farm that is the origin of poultry offered for sale at a live poultry market.

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Md. Code Ann., Agric. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)