§ 10-101. Definitions
West's Annotated Code of MarylandNatural ResourcesEffective: July 1, 2022
Effective: July 1, 2022
MD Code, Natural Resources, § 10-101
§ 10-101. Definitions
(b)(1) “Closed season” means the time when a person may not hunt any game bird or mammal.
(f) “Forest game birds and mammals” means forest game birds (ruffed grouse and turkey) and forest game mammals (black bears, deer, fox squirrels, excluding the Delmarva subspecies, and gray and red squirrels) or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(h) “Fur-bearing mammal” means any coyote, raccoon, bobcat, opossum, beaver, mink, muskrat, otter, fox, skunk, fisher, and long-tailed weasel, or any part, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(i) “Game birds or mammals” means the species defined as forest game birds and mammals, fur-bearing mammals, upland game birds and mammals, and wetland game birds or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(k)(1) “Hunt” means to pursue, capture, catch, kill, gig, trap, shoot, or attempt to pursue, capture, catch, kill, gig, trap, or shoot, or in any manner reduce any bird or mammal to personal possession.
(l) “Migratory game bird” means any wetland game bird, dove, or woodcock or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(m) “Nighttime” means the time beginning one-half hour after sunset and ending one-half hour before sunrise the following day, as published in the Department's hunter's guide, unless this title provides otherwise.
(n) “Nongame birds and mammals” means every wild mammal and bird not classified as game birds and mammals or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(o)(1) “Open season” means the time when a person lawfully may hunt game birds and mammals.
(p) “Person” means the State, any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the State, or any of their units, or an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind, or any partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, or any other entity.
(r) “Protected birds” means any wild bird not included within the definition of “game bird” or “unprotected bird” or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(s) “Resident” includes a member of the armed forces of the United States who is on active duty and stationed officially in the State.
(u) “Unprotected bird” means any English sparrow, pigeon, or European starling or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(w) “Upland game birds and mammals” means upland game birds (blackbirds, crows, doves, pheasant, quail, and woodcock) and upland game mammals (rabbit and hare) or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(x) “Waterfowl processing operation” means receipt or possession of any wild waterfowl for the purpose of picking for a fee or other consideration.
(y) “Wetland game birds” means brant, coots, ducks, gallinules, geese, mergansers, rails, snipe, and swan or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them, including birds raised in captivity and released to the wild or otherwise used for hunting purposes.
(z) “Wild birds” means every bird wild by nature or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(aa) “Wild mammal” means every mammal wild by nature or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(bb) “Wild quadruped” means any species of wildlife having 4 feet or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
(cc) “Wild waterfowl” means brant, coots, ducks, geese, mergansers, and swans or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them, including birds raised in captivity and released to the wild or otherwise used for hunting purposes.
(dd)(1) “Wildlife” means every living creature, not human, wild by nature, endowed with sensation and power of voluntary motion.
Credits
Added by Acts 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 4, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1974, c. 864, § 3; Acts 1975, c. 165, § 1; Acts 1978, c. 107; Acts 1979, c. 52; Acts 1979, c. 53; Acts 1980, c. 780; Acts 1984, c. 649; Acts 1985, c. 641; Acts 1986, c. 687; Acts 1989, c. 507; Acts 1989, c. 512; Acts 1990, c. 6, § 2; Acts 1990, c. 145; Acts 1991, c. 18, § 2; Acts 1991, c. 18, §§ 1, 2; Acts 1995, c. 572, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1995; Acts 1998, c. 200, § 1, eff. July 1, 1998; Acts 2000, c. 690, § 1, eff. July 1, 2000; Acts 2001, c. 516, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2002, c. 177, §§ 1, 2, eff. Aug. 1, 2002; Acts 2016, c. 663, §§ 1, 2, eff. June 1, 2016; Acts 2016, c. 664, §§ 1, 2, eff. June 1, 2016; Acts 2018, c. 670, § 1, eff. June 1, 2018; Acts 2021, c. 446, § 2, eff. July 1, 2022.
Formerly Art. 66C, §§ 112, 132, 135, 200, 234, 696.
MD Code, Natural Resources, § 10-101, MD NAT RES § 10-101
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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