Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 17 > Chapter 3 - Taking and Handling of Wildlife

• Angling: means taking fish by one line and not more than two hooks, by one line and one artificial lure, which may have attached more than one hook, or by one line and not more than two artificial flies or lures. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Aquatic wildlife: means fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and soft-shelled turtles. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bag limit: means the maximum limit, in number or amount, of wildlife that any one person may lawfully take during a specified period of time. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Big game: means wild turkey, deer, elk, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison (buffalo), peccary (javelina), bear and mountain lion. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Closed season: means the time during which wildlife may not be lawfully taken. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Commission: means the Arizona game and fish commission. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Control: means ownership or the power to vote, either directly or indirectly, more than twenty per cent of the outstanding voting shares of the controlled person. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Arizona game and fish department. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• 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
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Escrow: means any transaction in which any escrow property is delivered with or without transfer of legal or equitable title, or both, and irrespective of whether a debtor-creditor relationship is created, to a person not otherwise having any right, title or interest therein in connection with the sale, transfer, encumbrance or lease of real or personal property, to be delivered or redelivered by that person upon the contingent happening or nonhappening of a specified event or performance or nonperformance of a prescribed act, when it is then to be delivered by such person to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, bailee or bailor, or any designated agent or employee of any of them. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow agent: means any person engaged in the business of accepting escrows. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow business: means a commercial activity characterized by the regular and continuous carrying on of escrow transactions. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow property: means property, money, a written instrument or evidence of title or possession to real or personal property or any other thing of value. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Falconry: means the sport of hunting or taking quarry with a trained raptor. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial institution: means banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, consumer lenders, international banking facilities and financial institution holding companies under the jurisdiction of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fur dealer: means any person engaged in the business of buying for resale the raw pelts or furs of wild mammals. 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
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guide: means a person who meets any of the following:

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

• License: means a license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• License year: means the twelve-month period between January 1 and December 31, inclusive, or a different twelve-month period as prescribed by the commission by rule. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Licensee: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Minor children: means persons under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Moral turpitude: means an offense, whether a misdemeanor or felony, that is related to extortion, burglary, larceny, bribery, embezzlement, robbery, racketeering, money laundering, forgery, fraud, murder, voluntary manslaughter or a sexual offense that requires the individual to register pursuant to section 13-3821. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Open season: means the time during which wildlife may be lawfully taken. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Possession limit: means the maximum limit, in number or amount of wildlife, that any one person may possess at one time. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• 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
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Road: means any maintained right-of-way for public conveyance. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Small game: means cottontail rabbits, tree squirrels, upland game birds and migratory game birds. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Statewide: means all lands except those areas lying within the boundaries of state and federal refuges, parks and monuments, unless specifically provided differently by commission order. 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
• Taxidermist: means any person who engages for hire in mounting, refurbishing, maintaining, restoring or preserving any display specimen. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• 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
• Upland game birds: means quail, partridge, grouse and pheasants. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• 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