Illinois Administrative Code › Title 17 - CONSERVATION › Part 640 - OUTFITTER REGULATIONS › Section 640.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Class A Permit - permit required for deer and turkey
				outfitters.
Class B Permit - permit required for waterfowl
				outfitters.
Client - an individual who provides, or who has provided on his
				or her behalf, financial or other consideration to an outfitter in exchange for
				outfitting services.
Department - the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
				(IDNR).
Guide - an individual providing guide services to clients of an
				outfitter.
Guide Services - any of the following: providing advice to the
				hunter while hunting about how and/or where to conduct his/her hunt, setting
				decoys, calling, stalking, pursuing, tracking, retrieving game, field dressing,
				caring for meat, field preparation of trophies including skinning or capeing,
				carriage of hunters in the field, carriage of hunter's equipment in the field
				or carriage of waterfowl, deer or turkey harvested by hunters.
Harvest Information Program or HIP - an annual registration
				mandated for gamebird hunters by the National Migratory Bird Harvest Program to
				compile annual wildlife estimates for waterfowl, doves and other migratory game
				birds.
Outfitter - a person (as defined in the Wildlife Code [
				520 ILCS
				5/1.2
l
]), including an officer or
				employee of a person, who provides or offers to provide outfitting services for
				waterfowl, deer or wild turkey hunting.
Outfitting Services - any service that, for financial or other
				consideration, offers or promises waterfowl, deer and/or wild turkey hunting
				access, assistance, guidance or opportunity on private or leased lands by way
				of one or more of the following:
guides, guide services, or bringing or retrieving equipment,
				stands, blinds, decoys or a client to or from the field; or
access to property that the person providing access leases or
				rents for waterfowl, deer and/or wild turkey hunting; or
access to property subleased, at least in part, for waterfowl,
				deer or wild turkey hunting.
The following are not considered outfitting services for the
				purposes of this Part:
a hunting lease granted by a landowner to a hunter or group of
				hunters;
providing transportation to or from a place of accommodation or
				a hub of public transportation;
for the purpose of waterfowl hunting, landowners or waterfowl
				hunting clubs or organizations that:
do not take compensation or fees other than annual membership
				and annual maintenance fees;
do not accept paying hunters on a day-to-day basis and are
				otherwise closed to the public; or
provide only waterfowl blinds or pits.
Resident Corporation - for the purpose of outfitter permitting,
				a resident corporation is an Illinois corporation that has been in existence
				for at least 30 days prior to submitting an application for an outfitter
				permit, and in which more than 50% of the stock is owned by Illinois resident
				individuals.
Resident Limited Liability Company - for the purpose of
				outfitter permitting, a resident limited liability company (LLC) is an Illinois
				LLC that has been in existence at least 30 days prior to submitting an
				application for an outfitter permit and in which more than 50% of the value of
				all units is held by Illinois resident individuals.
Waterfowl Blind or Pit - an area of concealment that is used to
				hide hunters from the sight of waterfowl.