Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R657 - Wildlife Resources
Rule R657-69 - Turkey Depredation
Section R657-69-2 - Definitions

(1) As used in this rule, "turkey" means a wild, free-ranging turkey and does not include a privately-owned wild turkey, domestic turkey, or wild-domestic hybrids.

(2) "Alternate limited entry drawing list" means a chronological list, based upon the permit drawing procedures described in the Upland Game and Turkey Guidebook, of those persons who were unsuccessful in drawing a limited entry turkey hunting permit and would have been successful were additional permits available.

(3) "Commercial poultry or gamebird facility" means the building licensed by the Department of Agriculture (UDAF) facility licensed by the Department of Agriculture that raises more than 1,000 poultry or gamebirds per year.

(4) "Control permit" means a nontransferable turkey hunting permit issued by the division under Section R657-69-6 or R657-69-7 that authorizes the holder to take a turkey for personal use within the described permit boundaries and described dates.

(5) "Control permit voucher" means a document issued to a landowner or lessee that may be retained for personal use or transferred to a third party, and which allows the holder to purchase a turkey control permit from the division.

(6) "Depredation Hunt" means a turkey hunt organized pursuant to Section R657-69-5, the Wildlife Code, and proclamations of the Wildlife Board.

(7) "Director" means the director of the division.

(8) "Division" means the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

(9) "Employee" means an individual regularly employed by the landowner or lessee for purposes unassociated with hunting on the private property owned or managed by the landowner or lessee.

(10) "Gamebird" means any captive-raised animal identified as a "Pen-reared Gamebird" in Section R657-4-2.

(11) "Hatchery" means hatchery equipment on one premises operated or controlled by any person for the production of baby poultry, as defined in Rule R58-6.

(12) "Immediate family member" means the landowner's or lessee's spouse, child, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepchild, and grandchild.

(13) "Infection zone" means any area within. 25 mile of a commercial poultry or gamebird facility that poses a disease risk.

(14) "Landowner" means any person, partnership, or corporation who owns private property in Utah and whose name appears on a deed as the owner or whose name appears as the purchaser on a contract for sale of private property.

(15) "Lessee" means any person, partnership, or corporation whose name appears as the lessee on a written lease, for at least a one-year period, of private property, and who is in physical control of the private property.

(16) "Material damage" means physical impacts to private property caused by turkeys that are visible, persistent, and detrimental to the landowner or lessee's use of the private property.

(17) "Personal property" means any movable and tangible thing owned by the landowner or lessee.

(18) "Poultry" means domestic fowl including chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pea fowl, pigeons, and ratites or other captive-bred birds not listed in Subsection R657-4-2(2)(c) which are bred for the primary purposes of producing eggs or meat whether kept for production or exhibition.

(19) "Private property" means land in private fee ownership, structures located thereon, and personal property of the landowner or lessee on or adjacent to the land of the landowner or lessee, but not including tribal trust lands.