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29.739   Grants for walleye production.
29.740   Contracts for walleye production.
29.741   Food in the wild for game birds.
29.749   Horicon marsh fur farm and dam.
29.753   Importation of wild elk.
SUBCHAPTER XI
CAPTIVE ANIMALS
29.875   Disposal of escaped deer or elk.
SUBCHAPTER XII
WILDLIFE DAMAGE
29.885   Removal of wild animals.
29.886   Management of double-crested cormorants.
29.887   Wildlife control in urban communities.
29.888   Wolf depredation program; wolf damage claims.
29.889   Wildlife damage abatement program; wildlife damage claim program.
29.89   Venison and wild turkey processing and donation program.
SUBCHAPTER XIII
ENFORCEMENT
29.921   Warrants; arrests; police powers.
29.924   Investigations; searches.
29.927   Public nuisances.
29.931   Seizures.
29.934   Sale of confiscated game and objects.
29.936   Distribution of fish and game to food distribution services.
29.938   Use by the department of unclaimed, seized, or confiscated property.
29.941   Assistance of law enforcement officers.
29.944   Exemption from liability.
29.947   Law enforcement aid program; spearfishing.
29.951   Resisting a warden.
29.954   False impersonation of warden.
29.957   Breaking seals of department.
29.961   Incorrect information.
29.962   Worthless checks for approvals.
29.964   Falsification or illegal possession of approvals.
29.967   Prohibitions during periods of suspension or revocation.
29.969   Larceny of wild animals.
29.971   General penalty provisions.
29.972   Revocation; failure to comply.
29.973   Commercial fish reporting system.
29.974   Penalties; repeaters.
29.977   Civil actions for damages caused by law violations.
29.981   Parties to a violation.
29.983   Wild animal protection surcharges.
29.984   Commercial fish protection surcharge.
29.985   Fishing shelter removal surcharge.
29.987   Natural resources surcharge.
29.989   Natural resources restitution surcharge.
29.99   Wildlife violator compact surcharge.
29.9905   Great Lakes resource surcharge.
29.991   Fishing net removal surcharge.
Ch. 29 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See definitions in s. 24.01.
Ch. 29 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also NR Ch 1-, Wis. adm. code.
subch. I of ch. 29 SUBCHAPTER I
DEFINITIONS
29.001 29.001 Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
29.001(3) (3)“Address" means a street name and number or post-office box number, the name of the city, village or town, the state and the zip code.
29.001(6) (6)“Aircraft" means any contrivance invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
29.001(9) (9)“All-terrain vehicle" has the meaning given in s. 340.01 (2g).
29.001(12) (12)“Approval" means any type of approval, privilege, or authorization issued or conferred by the department under this chapter including any license, permit, certificate, card, stamp, preference point, or tag. “Approval" does not include a conservation card issued under s. 23.47 (2).
29.001(15) (15)“Attending boat" means an open boat used to transport equipment, crew or catch of a licensed boat, provide assistance in the operation of fishing gear by the licensed boat or provide other assistance in the commercial fishing operations of a boat licensed under s. 29.519.
29.001(16) (16)“Boat" means any device capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.
29.001(17) (17)“Bow," when used with reference to hunting, means a bow, drawn and held by and through the effort of the person releasing it, but does not include a crossbow.
29.001(18) (18)“Carcass" means the dead body of any wild animal, including any part of the wild animal or the eggs of the wild animal.
29.001(19) (19)“Cervid" means any species of deer or elk that is present in the wild and that is not a farm-raised deer.
29.001(19m) (19m)“Crossbow" means any device using a bow that, once drawn, is held solely by means other than the effort of the person firing it.
29.001(20) (20)“Deer" means white-tailed deer and does not include farm-raised deer.
29.001(21) (21)“Documented boat" means a licensed commercial fishing boat with valid federal documentation under s. 30.51 (2) (c) 2.
29.001(22) (22)“Elk" means elk that is present in the wild and that does not have an ear tag or other mark identifying it as being raised on a farm.
29.001(24) (24)“Farm-raised deer" has the meaning given in s. 95.001 (1) (ag).
29.001(25) (25)“Farm-raised fish" means a fish that is kept on a fish farm for propagation purposes or reared on a fish farm and that has not been introduced, stocked or planted into waters outside a fish farm or that has not escaped from a fish farm.
29.001(25m) (25m)“Farm-raised game bird" has the meaning given in s. 169.01 (12m).
29.001(26) (26)“Fish farm" has the meaning given in s. 95.001 (1) (aj), except that “fish farm" does not include a state or municipal fish hatchery or a private fishing preserve.
29.001(27) (27)“Fishing" includes taking, capturing or killing fish, other than farm-raised fish, or attempting to take, capture or kill fish, other than farm-raised fish. When “fish" is used as a verb, it has the same meaning as “fishing".
29.001(28) (28)“Food distribution service" means a program that provides food or serves meals directly to individuals with low incomes or to elderly individuals, or that collects and distributes food to persons who provide food or serve meals directly to these individuals.
29.001(29) (29)“Freeze-out pond" means a natural, self-contained body of water in which freezing or anoxic conditions prevent the body of water from naturally sustaining a fish population at least twice every 5 years.
29.001(30) (30)“Fur-bearing animal" includes otter, beaver, mink, muskrat, woodchuck, marten, fisher, skunk, raccoon, fox, weasel, opossum, badger, wolf, coyote, bobcat, cougar, and lynx.
29.001(33) (33)“Game" includes all varieties of wild mammals or birds.
29.001(36) (36)“Game animal" includes deer, moose, elk, bear, rabbit, squirrel, woodchuck, fox, and raccoon.
29.001(39) (39)“Game birds" means birds that are in the wild and includes wild geese, brant, wild ducks, wild swan, rails, coots, gallinules, snipe, woodcock, plovers, sandpipers, ruffed grouse, prairie chicken, sharp-tailed grouse, pheasants, gray partridge, chukar partridge, bobwhite, quail, crows and wild turkey.
29.001(41) (41)“Game fish" includes all varieties of fish except rough fish and minnows.
29.001(41m) (41m)“Great Lakes fish" means lake trout, siscowet, whitefish, chubs, yellow perch, menominee, lake herring, smelt, alewife, and burbot.
29.001(42) (42)“Hunt" or “hunting" includes shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, capturing or killing or attempting to capture or kill any wild animal.
29.001(45) (45)“Inland waters" means all waters not classified as outlying waters, including the bays, bayous and sloughs of the Mississippi River bottoms.
29.001(51) (51)“Licensed boat" means a boat, other than an attending boat, included under a commercial fishing license.
29.001(54) (54)“Minnow" includes a sucker not listed as endangered or threatened under s. 29.604 (3), central mudminnow, tadpole madtom, stonecat, banded killifish, blackstripe topminnow, brook silverside, brook stickleback, ninespine stickleback, trout-perch, darter, log perch, sculpin. “Minnow" includes any minnow family cyprinid that is not listed as endangered or threatened under s. 29.604 (3) and that is not a goldfish, grass carp, common carp or rudd. “Minnow" does not include any sucker, darter, sculpin or minnow species that is designated as detrimental under s. 29.424.
29.001(57) (57)“Motor vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle, including a combination of 2 or more vehicles or an articulated vehicle. “Motor vehicle" includes a snowmobile or an all-terrain vehicle. “Motor vehicle" does not include an aircraft, a vehicle operated exclusively on rails, an electric scooter, or an electric personal assistive mobility device.
29.001(58) (58)“Municipal fish hatchery" means a fish hatchery that is owned or operated by a city, village, town, county, or a federally recognized Indian tribe or band located in this state.
29.001(60) (60)“Nongame species" means any species of wild animal that is living in the wild and that is not classified as a game fish, game animal, game bird or fur-bearing animal.
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