Utah Admin. Code R657-44-2 - Definitions
(1) Terms used in
this rule are defined in Sections
23-13-2
and
23-16-1.1.
(2) In addition:
(a) "Alternate drawing list" means a list of
persons who have not already drawn a permit and would have been the next person
in line to draw a permit.
(b)
"Cleared and planted land" means private land or privately leased state or
federal land used to produce a cultivated crop for commercial gain and the
cultivated crop is routinely irrigated or routinely mechanically or manually
harvested, or is crop residue that has forage value for livestock.
(c) "Commercial gain" means intent to profit
from cultivated crops through an enterprise in support of the crop owner's
livelihood.
(d) "Damage incident
period" means the period of time between July 1 and June 30 of the following
year that the division identifies in a depredation mitigation plan to take
action to prevent and mitigate further big game depredation and during which
compensation for damage may be calculated.
(e) "Depredation mitigation plan" means a
document prepared by the division pursuant to Section 23 -16-3 (2) (b) and R
657-44-3 (4) out lining the actions it will take to prevent and mitigate big
game damage to livestock forage, cultivated crops, irrigation equipment, and
fences on private land.
(f)
"Immediate family member " means the landowner's or lessee's spouse, child,
son-in-law, daughter-in-law, father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, step child, grandchild,
grandfather, and grandmother.
(g)
"Irrigated" means the controlled application of water for agricultural purposes
through man-made systems to supply water not satisfied by rainfall.
(h) "Landowner" means any person,
partnership, or corporation who owns property in Utah and whose name appears on
a deed as the owner of eligible property or whose name appears as the purchaser
on a contract for sale of eligible property.
(i) "Lessee" means any person, partnership,
or corporation whose name appears as the lessee on a written lease, for atleast
a one-year period, for eligible property used for farming or ranching purposes,
and who is in actual physical control of the eligible property.
(j) "Livestock Forage" means any forage,
excluding cultivated crops and crop residues, meant for consumption by
livestock, not routinely irrigated or routinely mechanically or manually
harvested.
(k) "Mitigation permit"
means a nontransferable hunting permit issued directly to a landowner or
lessee, an immediate family member of the landowner or lessee, or an employee
of the landowner or lessee, authorizing the named individual to take specified
big game animals for personal use within a designated area.
(l) "Mitigation permit voucher" means a
document issued to a landowner or lessee, allowing the landowner or lessee to
designate who may obtain a big game mitigation permit.
(m) "Nuisance" describes a situation where
big game animals are found to have moved off formally approved management units
onto adjacent units or other areas not approved for that species.
(n) "Once-in-a-lifetime species" for the
purposes of this section, includes bull moose and bison, bighorn sheep, and
mountain goat regardless of sex.
(o) "Private land" means land in private fee
ownership and in agricultural use as provided in Section
59-2-502
and eligible for agricultural use valuation as provided in Section
59-2-503
and
59-2-504.
Private land does not include tribal trust lands.
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