§ 1 This code shall be known as the Fish and Game Code.
§ 2 Unless the provisions or the context otherwise requires, the …
§ 3 The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the …
§ 4 Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any …
§ 5 Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any …
§ 6 Whenever a power is granted to, or duty is imposed upon, a public …
§ 7 Whenever a statement or report is required to be made, it shall be …
§ 8 The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the …
§ 9 The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter.
§ 9.2 “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by …
§ 10 The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the …
§ 11 Whenever in this code the doing of an act between certain dates or …
§ 12 Wherever the term “Fish Commission Fund” or “Game Preservation Fund” …
§ 13 Unless otherwise specified by statute, any notice or other written …
§ 13.5 “Adaptive management,” unless otherwise specified in this code, means …
§ 14 “Anadromous fish” means fish which spawn in fresh water and spend a …
§ 15 “Angling” means the taking of, or attempting to take, fish by hook …
§ 16 “Affix” means physically attached to or imprinting an electronic …
§ 17 “Aquaculture” means that form of agriculture devoted to the …
§ 18 “Bag limit” means the maximum limit, in number or amount, of birds, …
§ 19 “Possession limit” means the maximum, in number or amount, of birds, …
§ 22 “Bird” means a wild bird or part of a wild bird.
§ 24 “Buy” includes an offer to buy, purchase, barter, exchange, or trade.
§ 27 “Chumming” means the placing in the water of fish, or other material …
§ 29 “Closed season” means that period of time during which the taking of …
§ 30 “Commission” means the Fish and Game Commission, and “commissioner” …
§ 32 “County” includes city and county.
§ 33 “Credible science” means the best available scientific information …
§ 35 “Day” means calendar day, and “week” means calendar week.
§ 37 “Department” means the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
§ 39 “Director” means the Director of Fish and Wildlife.
§ 41 “District” means fish and game district.
§ 43 “Ecosystem-based management” means an environmental management …
§ 45 “Fish” means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, …
§ 46 “Guide boat” means a boat or vessel under 25 feet in length, which is …
§ 48 “Hook” or “fishhook” means an implement to catch or hold fish or …
§ 51 “Kelp” means kelp or other marine aquatic plants and the seeds …
§ 54 “Mammal” means a wild or feral mammal or part of a wild or feral …
§ 54.5 “Marine finfish aquaculture” means the propagation, cultivation, or …
§ 55 “Mile” means either a statute mile (5,280 feet) or a nautical mile …
§ 56 “Net” means any gear made of any kind of twine, thread, string, rope, …
§ 57 “Nonresident” means a person who is not a resident as defined in …
§ 60 “Oath” includes affirmation.
§ 61 “Ocean ranching” means aquaculture where juvenile anadromous fish are …
§ 62 “Open season” means that period of time during which the taking of …
§ 64 “Order,” “rule,” and “regulation” are used interchangeably and each …
§ 67 “Person” means any natural person or any partnership, corporation, …
§ 68 “Purchase” means “buy” as defined in Section 24.
§ 70 “Resident” means any person who has resided continuously in the State …
§ 73 “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is …
§ 75 “Sell” includes offer or possess for sale, barter, exchange, or …
§ 79 “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
§ 80 Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, a provision of …
§ 81 “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or …
§ 82 “Slurp gun” means a self-contained, hand-held device used to capture …
§ 83 “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the …
§ 86 “Take” means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill, or attempt to …
§ 88 “Transport” includes offer or receive for transportation.
§ 89 For the purposes of this code, “recycled water” or “reclaimed water” …
§ 89.1 “Waters of the state,” “waters of this state,” and “state waters” …
§ 89.5 “Wildlife” means and includes all wild animals, birds, plants, fish, …

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Terms Used In California Codes > Fish and Game Code > Division 0.5 > Chapter 1 - General Definitions

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Aquaculture: means that form of agriculture devoted to the propagation, cultivation, maintenance, and harvesting of aquatic plants and animals in marine, brackish, and fresh water. See California Fish and Game Code 17
  • Bird: means a wild bird or part of a wild bird. See California Fish and Game Code 22
  • Board: as used in this chapter , means the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists established under Section 6710. See California Business and Professions Code 7801
  • Bureau: means the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. See California Business and Professions Code 7601
  • Buy: includes an offer to buy, purchase, barter, exchange, or trade. See California Fish and Game Code 24
  • Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
  • City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
  • Commission: means the Fish and Game Commission, and "commissioner" means a member of the Fish and Game Commission. See California Fish and Game Code 30
  • committee: includes a standing committee, joint committee, conference committee, subcommittee, select committee, special committee, research committee, or any similar body. See California Government Code 9027
  • complaint: means a valid complaint as specified in subdivision (b). See California Government Code 8944
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
  • County: includes city and county. See California Fish and Game Code 32
  • Credible science: means the best available scientific information that is not overly prescriptive due to the dynamic nature of science, and includes the evaluation principles of relevance, inclusiveness, objectivity, transparency, timeliness, verification, validation, and peer review of information as appropriate. See California Fish and Game Code 33
  • Day: means calendar day, and "week" means calendar week. See California Fish and Game Code 35
  • Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife. See California Fish and Game Code 37
  • Director: means the Director of Fish and Wildlife. See California Fish and Game Code 39
  • disaster: means a war or enemy-caused calamity within this State, such as an attack by nuclear weapons. See California Government Code 9035
  • District: means fish and game district. See California Fish and Game Code 41
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Fish: means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals. See California Fish and Game Code 45
  • Geologist: as used in this chapter , refers to a person engaged in the practice of geology. See California Business and Professions Code 7803
  • Geology: as used in this chapter , refers to that science which treats of the earth in general. See California Business and Professions Code 7802
  • Geophysicist: as used in this chapter , refers to a person engaged in the practice of geophysics. See California Business and Professions Code 7803.1
  • Geophysics: as used in this chapter , refers to that science which involves study of the physical earth by means of measuring its natural and induced fields of force, including, but not limited to, electric, gravity, and magnetic, and its responses to natural and induced energy and the interpreting of these measurements and the relating of them to the physics of the earth. See California Business and Professions Code 7802.1
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Kelp: means kelp or other marine aquatic plants and the seeds thereof. See California Fish and Game Code 51
  • Mammal: means a wild or feral mammal or part of a wild or feral animal, but not a wild, feral, or undomesticated burro. See California Fish and Game Code 54
  • meeting: means a gathering of a quorum of the members of a house or committee in one place for the purpose of discussing legislative or other official matters within the jurisdiction of the house or committee. See California Government Code 9027
  • Mile: means either a statute mile (5,280 feet) or a nautical mile (6,077 feet) depending on the application. See California Fish and Game Code 55
  • Oath: includes affirmation. See California Government Code 15
  • Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
  • Person: means any natural person or any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, or other type of association. See California Fish and Game Code 67
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
  • Purchase: means "buy" as defined in Section 24. See California Fish and Game Code 68
  • Resident: means any person who has resided continuously in the State of California for six months or more immediately prior to the date of application for a license or permit, any person on active military duty with the Armed Forces of the United States or auxiliary branch thereof, or any person enrolled in the Job Corps established pursuant to former Section 2883 of Title 29 of the United States Code. See California Fish and Game Code 70
  • season: means "open season. See California Fish and Game Code 62
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Fish and Game Code 83
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
  • state agency: includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission. See California Government Code 11000
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Fish and Game Code 73
  • subscription: includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name. See California Fish and Game Code 81
  • Take: means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill. See California Fish and Game Code 86
  • Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
  • Wildlife: means and includes all wild animals, birds, plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and related ecological communities, including the habitat upon which the wildlife depends for its continued viability. See California Fish and Game Code 89.5