Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 60 - Fish and Wildlife › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 3 - Rules and Regulations Governing Nuisance Wildlife Control Specialists › Section 250-RICR-60-00-3.5 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in these Rules and
				  Regulations the following terms shall be construed as follows:
1. "Animal" or "Animals" means every living
				  creature except a human being.
2.
				  "Bite" or "Bitten" means that the skin has been penetrated by an animal's tooth
				  or teeth.
3. "Department" or "DEM"
				  means the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
4. "Director" means the Director of the Rhode
				  Island Department of Environmental Management, or his/her duly authorized agent
				  or agents.
5. "Division" means the
				  Division of Fish amp; Wildlife of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental
				  Management.
6. "Endangered species"
				  means any animal so declared by the United States secretaries of the interior
				  or commerce under the provisions of the Federal Endangered Species Act,
				  16 U.S.C. §
												1532 (2018), or animal so declared by the
				  Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management pursuant to
				  R.I. Gen. Laws §
											20-37-2(3).
7. "Environmental police officer" means the
				  Chief of the DEM Division of Law Enforcement, the deputy chiefs and all
				  officers of the Division of Law Enforcement.
8. "Euthanasia" means the humane destruction
				  of an animal accomplished by a method that involves instantaneous loss of
				  consciousness followed immediately by death or by a method that involves
				  anesthesia produced by an agent which causes painless and rapid loss of
				  consciousness and death during that period of unconsciousness. All methods of
				  euthanasia must comply with Rhode Island General Laws.
9. "Fish and Wildlife" or "F&W" means the
				  Department of Environmental Management's Division of Fish and
				  Wildlife.
10. "Furbearer" means all
				  mammals as defined under R.I. Gen. Laws §
											20-16-1.
11. "Nuisance Wildlife Control Specialist",
				  "NWCS" or "Permittee" means any person issued a permit pursuant to the
				  provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws §§
											20-1-18 and
				  20-1-22, for the control of
				  nuisance wildlife.
12. "Person"
				  means any individual, partnership, firm, joint stock company, corporation,
				  association, trust, estate, municipality, or other government entity or other
				  legal entity.
13. "Rabies vector
				  species" or "RVS" means those wildlife species that have been identified as the
				  most common carriers of rabies virus currently including raccoons, skunks,
				  bats, woodchucks, and foxes.
14.
				  "Site of capture" means the parcel of land on which the problem animal was
				  captured and which is owned or leased by the person who captured the problem
				  animal or who engaged a Nuisance Wildlife Control Specialist to affect such
				  capture.
15. "Translocation" means
				  the transport and release of animals from one location to another.
16. "Wildlife control services" means to
				  harass, repel, evict, exclude, capture, posses, transport, liberate, destroy;
				  or attempt to harass, repel, evict, exclude, capture, posses, transport,
				  liberate or destroy a problem wild animal. This is to include the disturbance,
				  removal, or destruction or attempted disturbance, removal, or destruction of
				  nests, dens, lodges, or burrows.
17. "Wildlife rehabilitation" means the
				  practice of providing care for injured, orphaned or sick wildlife including
				  their capture, housing, feeding, emergency treatment for the primary purpose of
				  release into the wild.