Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission
Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations
Chapter 56 - REGULATION GOVERNING LETHAL TAKING OF WILDLIFE
Section 56-2 - Definitions
Current through September 21, 2024
Definitions shall be as set forth in Title 2 3, Wyoming Statutes, Commission regulations, and the Commission also adopts the following definitions:
(a) "Designee" means an employee of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department who has been granted authorization in writing by the Chief Game Warden to take wildlife under the terms of this regulation; designee also means any non-department individual, including, but not limited to a peace officer as allowed under W.S. §ll-24-108(g), who has been granted authorization by a Department employee to take specific wildlife on a case by case basis.
(b) "Necessary" means for the purposes listed in Section 3 of this regulation.
(c) "Substantial damage" means damage, as calculated and compensable pursuant to W.S. § 23-1-901, and for which the Chief Game Warden determines that the most effective means of alleviating the damage is to take the offending big or trophy game animals or game birds.
(d) "Take" means kill.
(e) "Wildlife" means every wild mammal, bird, fish, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, their viable gametes (eggs and sperm), fertilized eggs, or any hybrid (including hybrids between wildlife and wildlife and hybrids between wildlife and domestic or domesticated animals) or any transgenic product thereof.
