§ 4-23-3. Definitions.

     As used in this chapter:

(1) "Agricultural crops" means any product of cultivation;

(2) "Board" means the Agricultural and Wildlife Damage Prevention Board;

(3) "Bounty" means the monetary compensation paid persons for the harvest of predatory or depredating animals;

(4) "Damage" means any injury or loss to livestock, poultry, agricultural crops, or wildlife inflicted by predatory or depredating animals or depredating birds;

(5) "Depredating animal" means a field mouse, gopher, ground squirrel, jack rabbit, raccoon, or prairie dog;

(6) "Depredating bird" means a Brewer's blackbird or starling;

(7) "Livestock" means cattle, horses, mules, sheep, goats, and swine;

(8) "Predatory animal" means any coyote; and

(9) "Wildlife" means any form of animal life generally living in a state of nature, except a predatory animal or a depredating animal or bird.

Amended by Chapter 109, 1989 General Session