New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Fis - Executive Director, Fish and Game Department
Chapter Fis 300 - WILDLIFE SEASONS AND RULES
Part Fis 312 - USE OF DRONES, SMART RIFLES, AND LIVE ACTION GAME CAMERAS
Section Fis 312.01 - Definitions

Universal Citation: NH Admin Rules Fis 312.01

Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024

(a) "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)" means any device capable of flight which is remotely, automatically, or otherwise piloted without an occupant, including, but not limited to, drones.

(b) "Smart rifle" means any firearm that is equipped with one or more of the following:

(1) A target tracking system;

(2) An electronically-controlled, electronically-assisted, or computer-linked trigger; or

(3) A ballistics computer.

(c) "Live-action game camera" means any device capable of recording and transmitting photographic or video data wirelessly to a remote device, such as a computer or smart phone. "Live-action game camera" does not include game cameras that merely record photographic or video data and store such data for later use, as long as the device cannot transmit data wirelessly.

(d) "Take" or "taking" means pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, and netting wildlife, and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying, worrying, wounding, or placing, setting, drawing, or using any net or other device commonly used to take wildlife, whether they result in taking or not, and includes every attempt to take and every act of assistance to every other person in taking or attempting to take wildlife, in accordance with RSA 207:1, XXVII.

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 36, Number 23, eff.6/3/2016 is not yet available.

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