150.010 Definitions for chapter.
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<![CDATA[ Page 1 of 3 150.010 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: <br>(1) "Angling" means the taking or attempting to take fish by hook and line in hand, rod in hand, jugging, setline, or sport fishing trotline; (2) "Buy" includes offering to buy, acquiring, or possessing through purchase, barter, exchange, or trade; (3) "Commercial trotline" means a line to which are attached more than fifty (50) single or multibarbed baited hooks, which shall not be placed closer than eighteen (18) <br>inches; (4) "Commission" means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission; <br>(5) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; (6) "Daylight hours" means the period from one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise to one-half (1/2) hour after sunset; (7) "Device" means any article, instrument, or equipment of whatever nature or kind which may be used to take wild animals, wild birds, or fishes; (8) "Department" means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; <br>(9) "Fishing" means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the fisherman has fish in possession or not; (10) "Gigging" means the taking of fish by spearing or impaling on any pronged or barbed instrument attached to the end of any rigid object; (11) "Grabbing" means the taking of fish, frogs, or turtles directly by hand or with the aid of a handled hook; (12) "Hunting" means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the hunter has game in possession or not; (13) "Identification tag" means a marker made of specified material upon which a name and address or number is placed and attached to unattended gear to designate <br>ownership or responsible operator; (14) "Impounded waters" means any public waters backed up behind a dam and includes all water upstream from the dam to the first riffle or shoal; (15) "Jugging" means a means of fishing by which a single baited line is attached to any floating object; (16) "License" means any document issued by the department authorizing its holder to perform acts authorized by the license and includes any other form of authorization <br>in addition to or in lieu of an actual document which may be authorized by the <br>department by administrative regulation; (17) "Migratory shore or upland game birds" means all species of migratory game birds except waterfowl; (18) "Minnows" means all fish under six (6) inches in length, except basses, either largemouth, smallmouth or Kentucky; rock bass or goggle-eye; trout; crappie; <br>walleye; sauger; pike; members of the striped bass family; and muskellunge; Page 2 of 3 (19) "Navigable waters" means any waters within this state under lock and dam; <br>(20) "Nonresident" means a person who has not established a permanent domicile in this state and has not resided in this state for thirty (30) days immediately prior to his <br>application for a license; (21) "Permit" means any document issued by the department authorizing its holder to perform acts authorized by the permit and includes tags which shall be affixed to <br>wildlife or devices as evidence of holding a permit and includes any other form of <br>authorization in addition to or in lieu of an actual document authorized by the <br>department by administrative regulation; (22) "Possess" means the act of having or taking into control; <br>(23) "Prescribed by the department" means established by an administrative regulation; <br>(24) "Processed wildlife" means any wildlife specimen or parts thereof that have been rendered into a permanently preserved state; (25) "Protected wildlife" means all wildlife except those species declared unprotected by administrative regulations promulgated by the department; (26) "Public roadway" includes rural roads, highways, bridges, bridge approaches, city streets, viaducts, and bridges which are normally traveled by the general public and <br>are under the jurisdiction of a state, federal, county, or municipal agency; (27) "Public waters" means all waters within the state flowing in a natural stream channel or impounded on a natural stream; (28) "Raw fur" means a hide, fur, or pelt of a fur-bearing animal which has not been processed. Skinning, stretching, oiling, or coloring of the pelt of the animal shall not <br>be considered processing; (29) "Administrative regulation" means a written regulation promulgated, pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A, by the commissioner with the approval of the commission; (30) "Resident" means any person who has established permanent domicile and legal residence and has resided in this state for thirty (30) days immediately prior to his <br>application for a license. All other persons shall be classed as nonresidents, except <br>students enrolled for at least six (6) months in an educational institution as full-time <br>students and military personnel of the United States who are under permanent <br>assignment, shall be classified as residents while so enrolled or assigned in this <br>state; (31) "Resist" means to point a gun at, leave the scene, intimidate or attempt to intimidate in any manner, or further interfere in any manner with any officer in the discharge <br>of his duties; (32) "Rough fish" means all species of fishes other than those species designated by administrative regulation as sport fishes; (33) "Sell" includes offering to sell, having or possessing for sale, barter, exchange, or trade; (34) "Setline" means a line to which is attached one (1) single or multibarbed hook. This line may be attached to a tree limb, tree trunk, bank pole, or other stationary object, <br>on the bank of a stream or impoundment; Page 3 of 3 (35) "Snagging" means the taking of fish or other aquatic animals through the use of a hand-held pole and attached line with single or multiple fish hooks in which the fish <br>is hooked by a rapid drawing motion rather than enticement by bait; (36) "Sports fishing trotline" means a line to which are attached no more than fifty (50) single or multibarbed baited hooks which shall not be placed closer together than <br>eighteen (18) inches; (37) "Take" includes pursue, shoot, hunt, wound, catch, kill, trap, snare, or capture wildlife in any way and any lesser act designed to lure, attract, or entice for these <br>purposes; and to place, set, aim, or use any device, animal, substance, or agency <br>which may reasonably be expected to accomplish these acts; or to attempt to do <br>these acts or to assist any other person in the doing of or the attempt to do these <br>acts; (38) "Tenant" means any resident sharecropper, lessee, or any other person actually engaged in work upon a farm or lands and residing in a dwelling on the farms or <br>lands including noncontiguous lands, but shall not include any other employee or <br>tenant unless actually residing on the property and engaged or employed as above <br>mentioned; (39) "Transport" means to carry, move, or ship wildlife from one place to another; <br>(40) "Waterfowl" means all species of wild ducks, geese, swans, mergansers, and coots; and (41) "Wildlife" means any normally undomesticated animal, alive or dead, including without limitations any wild mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or other <br>terrestrial or aquatic life, whether or not possessed in controlled environment, bred, <br>hatched, or born in captivity and including any part, product, egg, or offspring <br>thereof, protected or unprotected by this chapter. Effective: July 15, 1998 <br>History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 512, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 268, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 239, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 474, sec. 1, <br>effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 1, effective July 15, <br>1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended <br>1978 Ky. Acts ch. 178, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 273, sec. 1. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 1. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 115, sec. 1. -- Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 1. -- Amended 1948 Ky. <br>Acts ch. 78, sec. 2. -- Amended 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1. -- Amended 1944 Ky. <br>Acts ch. 6, sec. 2; and ch. 124, sec. 1. -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 1. -- <br>Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. <br>secs. 1893d-10, 1954-2. ]]>