Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 14 > Article 22 - Fish and Wildlife

• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• bow: means any device that is intended to shoot an arrow. See Indiana Code 14-22-40-1
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• 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.
• decoy: means a three-dimensional object that:

  Indiana Code 14-22-40-2

• direct contact: means physical contact between the public and a specified animal. See Indiana Code 14-22-26.5-2
• endangered species: means any species or subspecies of wildlife whose prospects of survival or recruitment within Indiana are in jeopardy or are likely within the foreseeable future to become so due to any of the following factors:

  Indiana Code 14-22-34-1

• firearm: means any weapon that is designed to expel a projectile by means of an explosion. See Indiana Code 14-22-40-3
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• fund: refers to the fish and wildlife fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-3-1
• fund: refers to the lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license trust fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-4-1
• fund: refers to the deer research and management fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-5-1
• fund: refers to the game bird habitat restoration fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-8-1
• fund: refers to the nongame fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-34-2
• game animal: means an animal that may be legally taken under this article. See Indiana Code 14-22-40-4
• game animal: means an animal that may be legally taken under this article. See Indiana Code 14-22-37-1
• game bird: means pheasant, quail, grouse, mourning dove, and wild turkey. See Indiana Code 14-22-8-2
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Highway: includes county bridges and state and county roads, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• hunting guide: refers to an individual who holds a license under this chapter to provide hunting guide services. See Indiana Code 14-22-15.5-1
• hunting guide license: means a license issued under this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-15.5-1
• hunting guide services: means hunting guide or outfitter services that are offered or provided for money or other consideration. See Indiana Code 14-22-15.5-1
• law enforcement officer: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 14-22-40-5
• local unit of government: means a county, city, town, or township. See Indiana Code 14-22-31.5-1
• management: means the collection and application of biological information for the purposes of increasing the number of individuals within species and populations of wildlife up to the optimum carrying capacity of their habitat and maintaining those levels. See Indiana Code 14-22-34-3
• migratory waterfowl: means a wild goose, brant, or wild duck. See Indiana Code 14-22-7-1
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• nongame species: means any wild mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile, fish, mollusk, crustacean, or other wild animal not otherwise legally classified by Indiana statute or rule. See Indiana Code 14-22-34-4
• person: means an individual, an association, a business entity, or a governmental entity. See Indiana Code 14-22-31.5-2
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• professional production crew: means a cast or crew member of a production team and includes a professional photographer, videographer, or cinematographer. See Indiana Code 14-22-26.5-2.5
• proximity: means a distance created by a visual or physical barrier, including a barrier fence, safety line, or other means to signify a restricted area, that is designed to prevent a member of the public from touching a primary, permeable barrier that contains a specified animal. See Indiana Code 14-22-26.5-3
• public: refers to a person or an individual who is not listed or otherwise described in section 1 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-26.5-3.5
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• shooting range: means an area designed and operated for the use of archery, rifles, shotguns, pistols, muskets, or similar firearms that are fired at silhouettes, skeet, trap, paper, stillboard, or other similar targets. See Indiana Code 14-22-31.5-3
• specified animal: means a live animal that is any of the following:

  Indiana Code 14-22-26.5-4

• stamp: refers to the game bird habitat restoration stamp provided by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-8-3
• stamp: refers to the migratory waterfowl stamp provided by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-22-7-2
• take: means to:

  Indiana Code 14-22-34-5

• taxidermist: means a person who receives wild animals or parts of wild animals for the purpose of performing taxidermy service for any other person. See Indiana Code 14-22-21-1
• trained: means having participated in specific instruction with a specified animal. See Indiana Code 14-22-26.5-5
• wildlife: means :

  Indiana Code 14-22-34-6