WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 145
(i) "Green pelt" means a pelt which is not dried, cured, or tanned.

(j) "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. However, "hunt" may not be construed to include the
sport of fox chasing.

[(k) "Migratory birds" means those birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty
Act and by international convention treaties and listed in the Code of Federal
Regulations.]

[(1)] (K) "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.

[(m)] (L) "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.

[(n)] (M) "Open season" means the time, when a person lawfully may hunt game
birds and mammals and it includes both the first and last day of the season or period
designated by this title.

[(o)] (N) "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.

[(p)] (O) "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.

[(q)] (P) "Resident" includes a member of the armed forces of the United
States who is on active duty and stationed officially in the State.

[(r)] (Q) "Secretary" means Secretary of Natural Resources.

[(s)] (R) "Unprotected bird" means any English sparrow and European starling
or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.

[(t)] (S) "Unprotected mammal" means nutria and woodchuck.

[(u)] (T) "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, INCLUDING
BIRDS RAISED IN CAPTIVITY AND RELEASED TO THE WILD OR
OTHERWISE USED FOR HUNTING PURPOSES.

[(v)] (U) "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.

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