040-56 Wyo. Code R. §§ 56-2 - Definitions
Definitions shall be as set forth in Title 2 3, Wyoming Statutes, Commission regulations, and the Commission also adopts the following definitions:
(a) "Designee" means an
employee of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department who has been granted
authorization in writing by the Chief Game Warden to take wildlife under the
terms of this regulation; designee also means any non-department individual,
including, but not limited to a peace officer as allowed under W.S.
§ll-24-108(g), who has been granted authorization by a Department employee
to take specific wildlife on a case by case basis.
(b) "Necessary" means for the purposes listed
in Section
3
of this regulation.
(c)
"Substantial damage" means damage, as calculated and compensable pursuant to
W.S. §
23-1-901, and for which the Chief Game Warden
determines that the most effective means of alleviating the damage is to take
the offending big or trophy game animals or game birds.
(d) "Take" means kill.
(e) "Wildlife" means every wild mammal, bird,
fish, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, 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.
Notes
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