Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R657 - Wildlife Resources
Rule R657-20 - Falconry
Section R657-20-11 - General Class Falconer
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 657-20-11
Current through Bulletin 2024-18, September 15, 2024
(1) General Class falconer requirements.
(a)
Applicants for a General Class falconry COR must be at least 16 years of
age.
(b) Applicants for a General
Class falconry COR who are under 18 years of age must have a parent or legal
guardian sign their application.
(c) The parents or legal guardian of a minor
General Class falconer under the age of 18 are legally responsible for the
activities of their child.
(d) New
General Class applicants must submit a request for class upgrade to the
Division in writing or via email at falconry@utah.gov, and include a document
from their sponsor stating that the General Class applicant has practiced
falconry at the Apprentice Class falconer level or equivalent for at least two
(2) years, including maintaining, training, flying, and hunting raptors for at
least four (4) months in each separate 12-consecutive month period.
(i) For purposes of this Subsection, two (2)
years means two (2) separate 12-consecutive month periods, beginning when the
COR is issued.
(ii) A General Class
applicant may not substitute any falconry school program or education to
shorten the minimum period of two (2) years at the Apprentice level.
(iii) Evidence that a General Class applicant
has had a valid General Class level falconry license or permit in another state
for at least two (2) years may be substituted for the Apprentice Class falconry
COR requirement.
(2) Possession of raptors at the General Class.
(a) A General Class falconer may not
take or possess:
(i) any federally listed
threatened or endangered species, unless otherwise authorized by a federal take
permit; or
(ii) any wild caught,
captive-bred, or hybrid Bald Eagle, Golden Eagles, White-tailed Eagle or
Stellar's Sea-eagle.
(b)
A General Class falconer wishing to possess any of the following raptors must
first obtain an authorization from the Division by providing the information
required in
R657-20-12(2)(d)
(i) and (ii):
(i) Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila
fasciata);
(ii) Steppe Eagle
(Aquila nipalensis);
(iii) Tawny
Eagle (Aquila rapax);
(iv) African
Hawk-Eagle (Aquila spilogaster);
(v) Verreaux's Eagle (Aquila
verreauxii);
(vi) Crested
Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus);
(vii) Mountain Hawk-Eagle (Niseatus
nipalensis);
(viii) Martial Eagle
(Polemaetus bellicosus);
(ix) Harpy
Eagle (Harpia harpyja); and
(x)
Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo).
(c) A General Class falconer may possess no
more than three (3) wild-caught eyas, passage, or haggard age raptors,
captive-bred raptors, or hybrid raptors, or any combination thereof.
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