Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 10 - IMPORTATION AND POSSESSION OF LIVE WARM-BLOODED WILDLIFE › Section 10-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
Definitions shall be as set forth in Title 23, Wyoming
				  Statutes, Commission regulations, and the Commission also adopts the following
				  definitions:
(a) "Approved Laboratory"
				means a professional diagnostic or analytical laboratory qualified to conduct
				specific analyses and approved in advance by the Wyoming Game and Fish
				Department.
(b) "Cage and Aviary
				Birds" means those exotic captive-reared birds, such as parrots, exotic
				finches, and canaries, which are adapted to live and breed in a cage or would
				not survive in the wild in the state.
(c) "Captive-Bred Migratory Waterfowl" means
				privately owned, properly marked waterfowl excluding mallard ducks.
(d) "Captive-Reared Mallard Ducks" means
				privately owned, properly marked mallard ducks distinguished morphologically
				from domestic ducks.
(e)
				"Certificate of Veterinary Inspection" means an official health certificate
				issued by a licensed and accredited veterinarian.
(f) "Commercial Use" means utilizing wildlife
				in sale, trade, barter, brokerage or other commerce.
(g) "Dog Field Trial" means and includes any
				trial held under rules of a dog or kennel club for the purpose of gaining
				points toward a championship; and any practice or training trial where there is
				organized competition and training of dogs for the purpose of preparing for a
				trial.
(h) "Dog Training" means the
				activity of training or teaching dogs to hunt game birds by the use of
				pen-raised game birds or captive-reared mallard ducks.
(i) "Domestic Animals" means those
				populations of animals, their viable gametes (eggs and sperm), fertilized eggs,
				or any hybrid or transgenic product thereof, which through long association
				with humans have been bred to a degree which has resulted in genetic changes of
				the species to an extent that makes them unique and distinguishable from wild
				individuals of their species. For the purpose of this regulation, only the
				following animals are considered domestic:
ass, burro, and donkey (
Equus
				  asinus
),
bison (
Bison bison
); except when classified
				  as wild bison by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission and the Wyoming
				  Livestock,
cat (
Felis catus
),
domestic cattle (
Bos taurus
and
Bos
				  indicus
),
domestic chicken (
Gallus gallus
),
dog (
Canis familiaris
),
domestic ferret (
Mustela furo
),
domestic goat (
Capra hircus
),
domestic greylag goose (
Anser anser
),
horse and pony (
Equus caballus
),
domestic mallard (
Anas platyrhynchos
)
				  distinguished morphologically from wild mallards and captive-reared mallard
				  ducks,
mule and hinny (
Equus asinus
x
Equus
				  caballus
),
domestic muscovy duck (
Cairina
				  moschata
),
pigeons (
Columba livia
),
domestic sheep (
Ovis aries
), distinguished
				  morphologically from wild sheep,
domestic swan goose (
Anser
				  cygnoides
),
domestic swine (
Sus domesticus
),
domestic turkey (
Meleagris gallopavo
)
				  distinguished morphologically from wild turkeys.
(j) "Domesticated Animals" means those
				individual animals, their viable gametes (eggs and sperm), fertilized eggs, or
				any hybrid or any transgenic product thereof, which have been made tractable
				(easily managed or controlled) or tame. For the purpose of this regulation,
				only the following animals are considered domesticated:
domesticated alpaca (
Lama pacos
),
domesticated camel (
Camelus bactrianus
and
Camelus dromedarius
),
domesticated chinchilla (
Chinchilla
				  laniger
),
domesticated emu (
Dromaius
				  novaehollandiae
),
domesticated European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus),
domesticated Mongolian gerbil (
Meriones
				  unguiculatus
),
domesticated guinea fowl (
Numida
				  meleagris
),
domesticated guinea pig (
Cavia
				  porcellus
),
domesticated hamster (
Mesocricetus
				  auratus
),
domesticated hedgehog (
Erinaceus
				  spp.),
domesticated llama (
Lama glama
),
domesticated mouse (
Mus musculus
),
domesticated ostrich (
Struthio
				  camelus
),
domesticated peafowl (
Pavo
				  cristatus
),
domesticated pot-bellied pig (
Sus scrofa
				  domesticus
),
domesticated quail, common (
Coturnix
				  coturnix
),
domesticated quail, Japanese (
Coturnix
				  japonica
),
domesticated rat (
Rattus norvegicus
and
Rattus rattus
),
domesticated sugar gliders (
Petaurus
				  breviceps
),
domesticated rhea (
Rhea americana
and
Rhea pennata
),
domesticated vicuna (
Vicugna
				  vicugna
),
domesticated water buffalo (
Bubalus
				  bubalis
),
domesticated yak (
Bos grunniens
),
domesticated zebra (
Equus quagga
).
(k) "Falconry Training" means the
				activity of training or teaching raptors to hunt game birds by the use of
				pen-raised game birds.
(l) "Game
				Bird Certificate of Origin" means a sworn statement signed by the owner or
				manager of game birds originating from premises operated by them that said
				premises are free of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases.
(m) "Game Farm" means the single game farm
				existing on or before January 1, 1975, the NX Bar Ranch previously owned by
				Allen O. Fordyce (herein referred to as "the NX Bar Ranch game farm"), which is
				the game farm operation referenced in Wyoming Session Laws 1975, ch. 83,
				s2.
(n) "Holding Facility(ies)" or
				"Facility" means the physical structure designed to confine and handle live
				wildlife. The holding facility shall be defined by legal description to the
				quarter/quarter section or Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates
				where live wildlife shall be possessed or confined.
(o) "Hybrid" means an animal produced by
				crossing species or subspecies.
(p)
				"Import/Importation" means to bring or cause live wildlife to be brought into
				Wyoming by any means.
(q)
				"Importation/Possession Permit" or "Permit" means a written permit issued by
				the Department to allow for all or part of the following: importation,
				possession, transportation, or commercial use of live wildlife.
(r) "National Poultry Improvement Plan Form
				VS 9-3" means a U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health
				Inspection Service form for reporting of interstate shipment of poultry,
				including captive-reared mallard ducks, captive-bred migratory waterfowl and
				pen-raised game birds.
(s)
				"Pen-Raised Game Birds" means privately-owned game birds, excluding
				captive-reared mallard ducks and captive-bred migratory waterfowl, that are
				legally in possession of the holder of an importation/possession
				permit.
(t) "Possess/Possession" as
				it pertains to live wildlife and as used in this regulation, means to have
				physical dominion or control over wildlife regardless of ownership; possession
				also includes constructive possession where a person knowingly holds the power
				and ability to exercise dominion and control over wildlife, and has the ability
				to reduce the wildlife to actual possession.
(u) "Prevalence" means the proportion or
				percent of cases of a disease, or a disease agent, present in a population at a
				given time.
(v) "Protected Animal"
				means those animals as defined in W.S. §
									
										23-1-101(a)(ix) as protected
				animals.
(w) "Quarantine" means
				isolation or confinement in a holding facility, as approved in advance by the
				Department, constructed to hold animals in separation for a certain period of
				time to ensure they are free of known diseases and preventing disease exposure
				to other animals. Quarantine may also refer to the period of time in which
				animals are separated and confined in a quarantine facility. Quarantine
				facilities shall prevent contact between quarantined wildlife and any other
				animals, prevent escape of quarantined wildlife and allow humane restraint and
				handling of quarantined wildlife.
(x) "Raptor" means any live bird of the Order
				Accipitriformes, Falconiformes or Strigiformes listed in
				50 CFR
				10.13.
(y) "Species" means the biological
				classification of individuals having common attributes, potentially capable of
				interbreeding under natural conditions but usually not with members of another
				species, and designated by a binomial consisting of genus and specific names
				decided upon by recognized scientific authorities.
(z) "Warm-Blooded Wildlife" means every live
				wild mammal and bird, their viable gametes (eggs and sperm), fertilized eggs,
				or any hybrid (including hybrids between wildlife and wildlife, and hybrids
				between wildlife and domestic or domesticated animals) or any transgenic
				product thereof.
(aa) "Wild" means
				all those animals not defined as domestic or domesticated in this
				regulation.