17-101

17-101. Definitions

A. In this title, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Angling" means the taking of fish by one line and not to exceed two hooks, by
one line and one artificial lure, which may have attached more than one hook, or by one
line and not to exceed two artificial flies or lures.

2. "Bag limit" means the maximum limit, in number or amount, of wildlife which may
lawfully be taken by any one person during a specified period of time.

3. "Closed season" means the time during which wildlife may not be lawfully taken.

4. "Commission" means the Arizona game and fish commission.

5. "Department" means the Arizona game and fish department.

6. "Device" means any net, trap, snare, salt lick, scaffold, deadfall, pit,
explosive, poison or stupefying substance, crossbow, firearm, bow and arrow, or other
implement used for taking wildlife. Device does not include a raptor or any equipment
used in the sport of falconry.

7. "Falconry" means the sport of hunting or taking quarry with a trained raptor.

8. "Fishing" means to lure, attract or pursue aquatic wildlife in such a manner
that the wildlife may be captured or killed.

9. "Fur dealer" means any person engaged in the business of buying for resale the
raw pelts or furs of wild mammals.

10. "Guide" means a person who, for pay, aids or assists any person in taking
wildlife.

11. "License year" means the twelve-month period between January 1 and December 31,
inclusive.

12. "Nonresident" means a citizen of the United States or an alien who has not been
a bona fide resident of the state of Arizona for six months immediately preceding the
date of application for a license.

13. "Open season" means the time during which wildlife may be lawfully taken.

14. "Possession limit" means the maximum limit, in number or amount of wildlife,
which may be possessed at one time by any one person.

15. "Resident" means a person who has been a bona fide resident of the state of
Arizona for six months immediately preceding the date of application for a license, or a
member of the armed forces who has been stationed in Arizona for a period of thirty days
immediately preceding the date of application for a license.

16. "Road" means any maintained right-of-way for public conveyance.

17. "Statewide" means all lands except those areas lying within the boundaries of
state and federal refuges, parks and monuments, unless specifically provided differently
by commission order.

18. "Take" means pursuing, shooting, hunting, fishing, trapping, killing, capturing,
snaring or netting wildlife or the placing or using of any net or other device or trap in
a manner that may result in the capturing or killing of wildlife.

19. "Taxidermist" means any person who engages for hire in the mounting,
refurbishing, maintaining, restoring or preserving of any display specimen.

20. "Traps" or "trapping" means taking wildlife in any manner except with a gun or
other implement in hand.

21. "Wild" means, in reference to mammals and birds, those species which are
normally found in a state of nature.

22. "Wildlife" means all wild mammals, wild birds and the nests or eggs thereof,
reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, and fish, including their eggs or spawn.

23. "Zoo" means a commercial facility open to the public where the principal
business is holding wildlife in captivity for exhibition purposes.

B. The following definitions of wildlife shall apply:

1. Aquatic wildlife are all fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and
soft-shelled turtles.

2. Game mammals are deer, elk, bear, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison
(buffalo), peccary (javelina), mountain lion, tree squirrel and cottontail rabbit.

3. Big game are wild turkey, deer, elk, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison
(buffalo), peccary (javelina), bear and mountain lion.

4. "Trophy" means:

(a) A mule deer buck with at least four points on one antler, not including the
eye-guard point.

(b) A whitetail deer buck with at least three points on one antler, not including
the eye-guard point.

(d) A pronghorn (antelope) buck with at least one horn exceeding or equal to
fourteen inches in total length.

(e) Any bighorn sheep.

(f) Any bison (buffalo).

5. Small game are cottontail rabbits, tree squirrels, upland game birds and
migratory game birds.

6. Fur-bearing animals are muskrats, raccoons, otters, weasels, bobcats, beavers,
badgers and ringtail cats.

7. Predatory animals are foxes, skunks, coyotes and bobcats.

8. Nongame animals are all wildlife except game mammals, game birds, fur-bearing
animals, predatory animals and aquatic wildlife.

9. Upland game birds are quail, partridge, grouse and pheasants.

10. Migratory game birds are wild waterfowl, including ducks, geese and swans;
sandhill cranes; all coots, all gallinules, common snipe, wild doves and bandtail
pigeons.

11. Nongame birds are all birds except upland game birds and migratory game birds.

12. Raptors are birds that are members of the order of falconiformes or strigiformes
and include falcons, hawks, owls, eagles and other birds that the commission may classify
as raptors.

13. Game fish are trout of all species, bass of all species, catfish of all species,
sunfish of all species, northern pike, walleye and yellow perch.

14. Nongame fish are all the species of fish except game fish.

15. Trout means all species of the family salmonidae, including grayling.