Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 20.1-02 - Game and Fish Department

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Big game: means deer, moose, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, and antelope. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Boat: means any vessel:

  a. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02

• children: includes children by birth and by adoption. See North Dakota Code 1-01-18
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consideration: means something of value given or done in exchange for something of value given or done by another. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Crops: means any plant that has been harvested, collected, or stored as livestock feed, fodder, or fuel. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the game and fish department. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Depredation: means damage to or destruction of private property. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the department. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the department. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Endangered species: means any species whose prospects of survival or recruitment within the state are in jeopardy due to any of the following factors:

  a. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02

• Established road or trail: means any public highway or road, improved or otherwise, dedicated for public ingress or egress, or any other road or trail normally used for travel but does not include temporary trails across cultivated land used for agricultural purposes. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Fur-bearers: includes mink, muskrats, weasels, wolverines, otters, martens, fishers, kit or swift foxes, beavers, raccoons, badgers, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, lynx, mountain lions, black bears, and red or gray foxes. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Game birds: includes all varieties of geese, brant, swans, ducks, plovers, snipes, woodcocks, grouse, sagehens, pheasants, Hungarian partridges, quails, partridges, cranes, rails, coots, wild turkeys, mourning doves, and crows. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• hunting: means shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, attempting to take, or killing any game animals and game birds; searching for or attempting to locate or flush any game animals and game birds; luring, calling, or attempting to attract game animals and game birds; hiding for the purpose of taking or attempting to take game animals and game birds; and walking, crawling, or advancing toward wildlife while possessing implements or equipment useful in the taking of game animals or game birds. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Introduce: means to place, release, or allow the escape of a non-native species into a free-living state. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Motorboat: means any vessel propelled by machinery, whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• nonresident: is a ny person who has not actually lived within this state or maintained that person's residence within this state for at least six months immediately preceding the date that residence is to be determined. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes "affirmation". See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a motorboat. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Passenger: means every person carried on board a vessel other than:

  a. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02

• Person: includes every partnership, association, corporation, and limited liability company. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• population: means the number of inhabitants as determined by the last preceding state or federal census. See North Dakota Code 1-01-47
• Possession: means control, actual possession, and constructive possession of the article or thing specified. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• preserve: means any privately owned or leased acreage [hectarage] on which hatchery-raised game birds are released to be hunted for a fee over an extended season. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public waters: means waters to which the general public has a right to access. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Resident: means any person who has actually lived within this state or maintained that person's residence therein for at least six months immediately preceding the date that residence is to be determined. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Resident species: means any species nearly all of whose individuals in this state are located within this state for at least three-fourths of annual cycle of the species. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Small game: includes all game birds and tree squirrels. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Species: includes any subspecies of wildlife and any other group of wildlife of the same species or smaller taxa in common spatial arrangement that interbreed when mature. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Transport: means to cause or attempt to cause a species to be carried or moved into or within the state and includes accepting or receiving the species for transportation or shipment. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Waterfowl: includes all varieties of geese, brant, swans, ducks, rails, and coots. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Waters of the state: means all waters of this state, including boundary waters. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• week: means seven consecutive days and the word "month" a calendar month. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
• Wildlife: means any member of the animal kingdom including any mammal, fish, bird (including any migratory, nonmigratory, or endangered bird for which protection is also afforded by treaty or other international agreement), amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, or other invertebrate, and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, or the dead body or parts thereof. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33