Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 17 > Chapter 1 > Article 1 - Definitions and Authority of the State

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Aquatic wildlife: means fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and soft-shelled turtles. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Commission: means the Arizona game and fish commission. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Department: means the Arizona game and fish department. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• 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. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Domicile: means a person's true, fixed and permanent home and principal residence. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Falconry: means the sport of hunting or taking quarry with a trained raptor. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Fur-bearing animals: means muskrats, raccoons, otters, weasels, bobcats, beavers, badgers and ringtail cats. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Game fish: means trout of all species, bass of all species, catfish of all species, sunfish of all species, northern pike, walleye and yellow perch. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Game mammals: means deer, elk, bear, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison (buffalo), peccary (javelina), mountain lion, tree squirrel and cottontail rabbit. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Guide: means a person who meets any of the following:

  (a) Advertises for guiding services. See Arizona Laws 17-101

• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Migratory game birds: means wild waterfowl, including ducks, geese and swans, sandhill cranes, all coots, all gallinules, common snipe, wild doves and bandtail pigeons. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Predatory animals: means foxes, skunks, coyotes and bobcats. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Raptors: means birds that are members of the order of falconiformes or strigiformes and includes falcons, hawks, owls, eagles and other birds that the commission may classify as raptors. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Take: means pursuing, shooting, hunting, fishing, trapping, killing, capturing, snaring or netting wildlife or placing or using any net or other device or trap in a manner that may result in capturing or killing wildlife. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• trapping: means taking wildlife in any manner except with a gun or other implement in hand. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Trout: means all species of the family salmonidae, including grayling. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Upland game birds: means quail, partridge, grouse and pheasants. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Wild: means , in reference to mammals and birds, those species that are normally found in a state of nature. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Wildlife: means all wild mammals, wild birds and the nests or eggs thereof, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and fish, including their eggs or spawn. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Youth: means a person who is under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 17-101