New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 30 - WILDLIFE ADMINISTRATION › Part 5 - PRIVATE LAND ELK LICENSE ALLOCATION › Section 19.30.5.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Annual
				agreement" or "Agreement"
shall mean the document that contains the
				specific ranch information, sets forth the terms and conditions of the
				agreement, special instructions, requirements and regulations concerning
				participation in this program and affirms a signatory understanding of
				such.
B.
"Authorization
				number"
or
"Authorization"
shall mean a
				multi-digit number which allows the holder to purchase a private land elk
				license specifying sex and sporting arm type. May also collectively refer to
				types and numbers of private land elk hunting opportunities available in a game
				management unit or assigned to a recipient pool of elk hunting
				opportunities.
C.
"Authorization statement"
shall mean the document generated by the
				department and issued to an authorized ranch contact that contains the
				authorization numbers, which allows the holder to purchase a specified license
				to hunt elk.
D.
"Authorized
				Ranch Contact" or "ARC"
shall mean the person designated in writing by
				the landowner(s) to act as the liaison between the ranch and the department.
				ARC is responsible for acting in the landowner(s) best interest and has the
				authority to sign an elk private lands use system agreement and receive
				authorization statements. All persons listed on the recorded deed(s) must sign
				and notarize an authorization of ranch contact form provided by the department
				authorizing the same individual as the authorized ranch contact.
E.
"Base allocation"
shall mean
				the number and authorization types issued to base ranches through the
				allocation formula.
F.
"Base
				ranch"
shall mean a ranch in the primary management zone able to receive
				at least one whole authorization through the allocation formula based on
				weighted acreage and ranch score.
G.
"Bonus allocation"
shall mean
				the number and authorization types represented by private lands not
				participating in the elk private lands use system in the primary management
				zone, through the allocation formula.
H.
"Co-op"
shall mean more than
				one ranch enrolled by separate landowners and combined together to form a
				single ranch and naming a single ARC.
I.
"Deeded acres"
shall mean
				privately owned acres that can be verified by the department.
J.
"Department"
shall mean the
				New Mexico department of game and fish.
K.
"Director"
shall mean the
				director of the New Mexico department of game and fish.
L.
"Elk Contribution Rating" or
				"ECR"
shall mean the rating assigned to a ranch by appropriate
				department staff based on the following: occasional elk presence shall receive
				an ECR of 1, frequent elk presence shall receive an ECR of 1.25, continuous elk
				presence shall receive an ECR of 1.5.
M.
"EPLUS"
shall mean the elk
				private lands use system.
N.
"Game Management Unit" or "GMU"
shall mean those areas as
				described in 19.30.4 NMAC Boundary Descriptions for Game Management
				Units.
O.
"Inactivation"
shall mean the procedure that immediately stops all
				issuance of authorizations and suspends participation in the program.
P.
"In review"
shall mean a
				period of time during which an active ranch may be placed into temporary
				suspension, stopping agreements and authorization statements from being issued
				to the ARC, until the department review concludes that all participation
				requirements have been met.
Q.
"Landowner"
shall mean the person(s) listed on the most current
				recorded deed(s) being considered as a ranch for participation, is responsible
				for signing the initial application, and is responsible for assigning a single
				authorized ranch contact.
R.
"Meaningful benefit"
shall mean a variety of elk habitat
				components that are known to be beneficial to elk throughout at least one
				season and further determined by state game commission adopted participation
				guidelines.
S.
"Participation
				guidelines"
shall mean the written requirements for enrollment and
				participation in the program that department staff use to evaluate ranches and
				approved by the state game commission.
T.
"Percent weighted acres"
shall mean the quotient of a ranch's weighted acres divided by the total
				private acres in the primary management zone within a GMU.
U.
"Primary management zone"
shall mean areas of the state designated by the department upon which elk
				management goals and subsequent harvest objectives are based.
V.
"Public land"
shall mean
				those lands held by state, federal, or public land use agencies.
W.
"Ranch"
shall mean any deeded
				acres included in an agreement and treated as a single property.
X.
"Ranch-only"
shall mean a
				ranch whose ARC has selected the ranch-only hunting option as defined on their
				agreement or whose ranch is located in a GMU designated as
				ranch-only.
Y.
"Ranch-only
				authorization number"
shall mean a private land authorization that
				allows a person to purchase an elk license only valid on the designated ranch
				except as otherwise allowed by rule.
Z.
"Ranch score"
shall mean the
				score resulting from the ranches evaluation as defined in participation
				guidelines.
AA.
"Secondary
				management zone"
shall mean areas of the state that are not part of the
				primary management zone or special management zone.
AB.
"Small Contributing Ranch" or
				"SCR"
shall mean those ranches that meet the minimum qualifications to
				participate, but are unable to receive at least one whole authorization
				pursuant to the allocation formula based on weighted acreage alone.
AC.
"SCR pool"
shall mean the
				number and authorization types that result from the fractional consolidation of
				authorizations awarded to small contributing ranches through the allocation
				formula.
AD.
"Special
				management zone"
shall mean areas of the state not within the primary
				management zone or secondary management zone and where private land
				authorization issuance includes eligibility requirements or
				restrictions.
AE.
"Two year
				unconverted"
shall mean the number and authorization types initially
				allocated to participating properties but not converted to licenses averaged
				over the previous two license years.
AF.
"Unit-wide
" shall mean a
				ranch whose ARC has selected the unit-wide hunting option as defined on their
				agreement and received a unit-wide authorization(s) for the current license
				year. The unit-wide selection allows hunters who have a unit-wide license from
				the ranch to hunt any legally accessible public lands, other unit-wide ranches,
				and other private land with written permission within the GMU as well as allows
				any other licensed elk hunter with either a public draw license or a unit-wide
				elk license access to the unit-wide ranch.
AG.
"Unit-wide authorization
				number"
shall mean an authorization that allows a person to purchase an
				elk license valid on any legally accessible public lands, other unit-wide
				ranches, and other private land with written permission within the
				GMU.
AH.
"Weighted
				acres"
shall mean the product of a ranch's deeded acres multiplied by
				the elk contribution rating assigned to that ranch.