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23-27-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the Wildlife Board.
(2) (a) "Conveyance" means a terrestrial or aquatic vehicle or a vehicle part that maycarry or contain a Dreissena mussel.
(b) "Conveyance" includes a motor vehicle, a vessel, a motorboat, a sailboat, a personalwatercraft, a container, a trailer, a live well, or a bilge area.
(3) "Decontaminate" means to:
(a) drain and dry all non-treated water; and
(b) chemically or thermally treat in accordance with rule.
(4) "Director" means the director of the division.
(5) "Division" means the Division of Wildlife Resources.
(6) "Dreissena mussel" means a mussel of the genus Dreissena at any life stage,including a zebra mussel, a quagga mussel, and Conrad's false mussel.
(7) "Equipment" means an article, tool, implement, or device capable of carrying orcontaining:
(a) water; or
(b) a Dreissena mussel.
(8) "Executive director" means the executive director of the Department of NaturalResources.
(9) "Facility" means a structure that is located within or adjacent to a water body.
(10) "Infested water" means a geographic region, water body, facility, or water supplysystem within or outside the state that the board identifies in rule as carrying or containing aDreissena mussel.
(11) "Water body" means natural or impounded surface water, including a stream, river,spring, lake, reservoir, pond, wetland, tank, and fountain.
(12) (a) "Water supply system" means a system that treats, conveys, or distributes waterfor irrigation, industrial, waste water treatment, or culinary use.
(b) "Water supply system" includes a pump, canal, ditch, or pipeline.
(c) "Water supply system" does not include a water body.

Enacted by Chapter 284, 2008 General Session