Arizona Administrative Code › Title 12 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 4 - GAME AND FISH COMMISSION › Article 3 - TAKING AND HANDLING OF WILDLIFE › Section R12-4-301 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions provided under A.R.S. §
				  17-101 and R12-4-101, the following definitions apply to this Article unless
				  otherwise specified:
"Administer" means to apply a drug directly to wildlife by
				  injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means.
"Aircraft" means any contrivance used for flight in the air
				  or any lighter-than-air contrivance, including unmanned aircraft systems also
				  known as drones.
"Artificial flies and lures" means man-made devices intended
				  as visual attractants to catch fish. Artificial flies and lures does not
				  include living or dead organisms or edible parts of those organisms, natural or
				  prepared food stuffs, or chemicals or organic materials intended to create a
				  scent, flavor, or chemical stimulant to the device regardless of whether it is
				  added or applied during or after the manufacturing process.
"Atlatl" means a rod or narrow board-like device used to
				  launch, through a throwing motion of the arm, a dart.
"Audio location device" means any device that captures broad
				  spectrum, high definition sound and airwaves that is not held or manually
				  operated by a person and is used to identify and locate wildlife.
"Barbless hook" means any fish hook manufactured without
				  barbs or on which the barbs have been completely closed or removed.
"Body-gripping trap" means a device designed to capture an
				  animal by gripping the animal's body.
"Confinement trap" means a device designed to capture
				  wildlife alive and hold it without harm.
"Crayfish net" means a net that does not exceed 36 inches on
				  a side or in diameter and is retrieved by means of a hand-held line.
"Deadly weapon" has the same meaning as provided under A.R.S.
				  §
									13-3101.
"Device" has the same meaning as provided under A.R.S. §
									17-101.
"Dip net" means any net, excluding the handle, that is no
				  greater than three feet in the greatest dimension, that is hand-held,
				  nonmotorized, and the motion of the net is caused by the physical effort of the
				  person.
"Drug" means any chemical substance, other than food or
				  mineral supplements, that affects the structure or biological function of
				  wildlife.
"Edible portions of game meat" means, for:
Upland game birds, migratory game birds and wild turkey:
				  breast.
Bear, bighorn sheep, bison, deer, elk, javelina, mountain
				  lion, and pronghorn antelope: front quarters, hind quarters, loins
				  (backstraps), neck meat, and tenderloins.
Game fish: fillets of the fish.
"Evidence of legality" means the wildlife is accompanied by
				  the applicable license, tag, stamp, or permit required by law and is
				  identifiable as the "legal wildlife" prescribed by Commission Order, which may
				  include evidence of species, gender, antler or horn growth, maturity, and
				  size.
"Foothold trap" means a device designed to capture an animal
				  by the leg or foot.
"Handgun" means a firearm designed and intended to be held,
				  gripped, and fired by one or more hands, not intended to be fired from the
				  shoulder, and that uses the energy from an explosive in a fixed cartridge to
				  fire a single projectile through a barrel for each single pull of the
				  trigger.
"Harvest limit" means an identified limit or threshold on
				  the number of any one species permitted to be taken, during a specified time
				  period, in a management unit or portion of a management unit, which when met
				  closes the season for the remainder of the specified time period.
"Hybrid device" means a device with a combination of
				  components from two or more lawful devices and is used for the take of
				  wildlife, such as but not limited to a firearm, pneumatic weapon, or slingshot
				  that shoots arrows or bolts.
"Instant kill trap" means a device designed to render an
				  animal unconscious and insensitive to pain quickly with inevitable subsidence
				  into death without recovery of consciousness.
"Land set" means any trap used on land rather than in
				  water.
"Minnow trap" means a trap with dimensions that do not exceed
				  12 inches in depth, 12 inches in width, and 24 inches in length. "Muzzleloading
				  handgun" means a firearm intended to be fired from the hand, incapable of
				  firing fixed ammunition, and loaded with black powder or synthetic black powder
				  and a single projectile.
"Muzzleloading rifle" means a firearm intended to be fired
				  from the shoulder, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, having a single
				  barrel, and using black powder or synthetic black powder, and loaded through
				  the muzzle with a single projectile.
"Muzzleloading shotgun" means a firearm intended to be fired
				  from the shoulder, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, having a single or
				  double smooth barrel and using black powder or synthetic black powder, and
				  loaded through the muzzle with ball shot as a projectile.
"Paste-type bait" means a partially liquefied substance used
				  as a lure for animals.
"Pneumatic weapon" means a device that fires a projectile by
				  means of air pressure or compressed gas. This does not include tools that are
				  common in the construction and art trade such as, but not limited to, nail and
				  rivet guns.
"Pre-charged pneumatic weapon" means an air gun or pneumatic
				  weapon that is charged from a high compression source such as an air
				  compressor, air tank, or internal or external hand pump.
"Prohibited possessor" has the same meaning as provided under
				  A.R.S. §
									13-3101.
"Prohibited weapon" has the same meaning as provided under
				  A.R.S. §
									13-3101.
"Rifle" means a firearm intended to be fired from the
				  shoulder that uses the energy from an explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire a
				  single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
				  This does not include a pre-charged pneumatic weapon.
"Shotgun" means a firearm intended to be fired from the
				  shoulder and that uses the energy from an explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to
				  fire either ball shot or a single projectile through a smooth bore or rifled
				  barrel for each pull of the trigger.
"Sight-exposed bait" means a carcass, or parts of a carcass,
				  lying openly on the ground or suspended in a manner so that it can be seen from
				  above by a bird. This does not include a trap flag, dried or bleached bone with
				  no attached tissue, or less than two ounces of paste-type bait.
"Simultaneous fishing" means taking fish by using only two
				  lines at one time and not more than two hooks or two artificial flies or lures
				  per line.
"Single-point barbless hook" means a fishhook with a single
				  point, manufactured without barbs, or on which the barbs have been completely
				  closed or removed. This does not include a treble fishhook.
"Sinkbox" means a low-floating device with a depression that
				  affords a hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of the
				  water.
"Smart device" means any device equipped with a
				  target-tracking system or an electronically-controlled,
				  electronically-assisted, or computer-linked trigger or release. This includes
				  but is not limited to smart rifles.
"Trail Camera" means any device that is not held or manually
				  operated by a person and is used to capture images, video, or location, time,
				  or date data of wildlife.
"Trap flag" means an attractant made from materials other
				  than animal parts that is suspended at least three feet above the
				  ground.
"Water set" means any trap used and anchored in water rather
				  than on land.