Section R12-4-301. Definitions

In addition to the definitions provided under A.R.S. § 17-101, the following definitions apply to this Article unless otherwise speci- fied:

“Administer” means to pursue, capture, or otherwise restrain wildlife in order to directly apply a drug to wildlife by injec- tion, inhalation, ingestion or any other means.

“Aircraft” means any contrivance used for flight in the air or any lighter-than-air contrivance.

“Artificial lures and flies” means man-made devices intended as visual attractants for fish and does not include living or dead organisms or edible parts of those organisms, natural or pre- pared food stuffs, artificial salmon eggs, artificial corn, or arti- ficial marshmallows.

“Barbless hook” means any fishhook manufactured without barbs or on which the barbs have been completely closed or removed.

“Body-gripping trap” means a device designed to capture an animal by gripping the animal's body.

“Cervid” means any member of the deer family (Cervidae); which includes caribou, elk, moose, mule deer, reindeer, wapiti, and whitetail deer.

“Confinement trap” means a device designed to capture wild- life alive and hold it without harm.

“Crayfish net” means a net that does not exceed 36 inches on a side or in diameter and is retrieved by means of a hand-held line.

“Dip net” means any net, excluding the handle, that is no greater than 3 feet in the greatest dimension, that is hand-held, non-motorized, and the motion of the net is caused by the physical effort of the individual.

“Drug” means any chemical substance, other than food or mineral supplements, which affects the structure or biological function of wildlife.

“Evidence of legality” means the wildlife is accompanied by the applicable license, tag, stamp, or permit required by law and is identifiable as the “legal wildlife” prescribed by Com- mission Order, which may include evidence of species, gender, antler or horn growth, maturity and size.

“Foothold trap” means a device designed to capture an animal by the leg or foot.

“Instant kill trap” means a device designed to render an animal unconscious and insensitive to pain quickly with inevitable subsidence into death without recovery of consciousness.

“Land set” means any trap used on land rather than in water.

“Minnow trap” means a trap with dimensions that do not exceed 12 inches in depth, 12 inches in width and 24 inches in length.

“Muzzleloading handgun” means a firearm intended to be fired from the hand, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, having a single barrel, and loaded through the muzzle with black powder or synthetic black powder and a single projec- tile.

“Muzzleloading rifle” means a firearm intended to be fired from the shoulder, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, hav- ing a single barrel and single chamber, and loaded through the muzzle with black powder or synthetic black powder and a single projectile.

“Nonprofit organization” means an organization that is recog- nized as nonprofit under Section 501(c) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.

“Paste-type bait” means a partially liquefied substance used as a lure for animals.

“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, lim- ited liability company, non-governmental organization or club, licensed animal shelter, government entity other than the Department, and any officer, employee, volunteer, member or agent of a person.

“Pre-charged pneumatic weapon” means an air gun or pneu- matic weapon that is charged from an external high compres- sion source such as an air compressor, air tank, or external hand pump.

“Sight-exposed bait” means a carcass or parts of a carcass lying openly on the ground or suspended in a manner so that it can be seen from above by a bird. This does not include a trap flag, dried or bleached bone with no attached tissue, or less than two ounces of paste-type bait.

“Simultaneous fishing” means taking fish by using two lines and not more than two hooks or two artificial lures or flies per line.

“Sinkbox” means a low floating device with a depression that affords a hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of the water.

“Trap flag” means an attractant made from materials other than animal parts that is suspended at least three feet above the ground.

“Water set” means any trap used and anchored in water rather than on land.

Historical Note

Amended as an emergency effective April 10, 1975 (Supp. 75-1). Amended effective May 3, 1976, Amended

effective June 7, 1976 (Supp. 76-3). Amended effective

May 26, 1978 (Supp. 78-3). Editorial correction subsec-

tion (D) (Supp. 78-5). Amended effective June 4, 1979 (Supp. 79-3). Former Section R12-4-50 renumbered as Section R12-4-301 without change effective August 13, 1981 (Supp. 81-4). Amended subsection (A) effective May 12, 1982 (Supp. 82-3). Amended effective July 3,

1984 (Supp. 84-4). Amended effective December 30, 1988 (Supp. 88-4). Correction, former Historical Note should read “Amended effective January 1, 1989, filed December 30, 1988” (Supp. 89-2). Amended effective

February 9, 1998 (Supp. 98-1). Amended by final

rulemaking at 10 A.A.R. 850, effective April 3, 2004 (Supp. 04-1). Former R12-4-301 renumbered to R12-4-

321; new Section made by final rulemaking at 18 A.A.R. 1458, effective January 1, 2013 (Supp. 12-2). Amended by final rulemaking at 19 A.A.R. 826, effective July 1, 2013 (Supp. 13-2).