§ 23-27-102. Definitions.

     As used in this chapter:

(1) "Board" means the Wildlife Board.

(2)

(a) "Conveyance" means a terrestrial or aquatic vehicle or a vehicle part that may carry or contain a Dreissena mussel.

(b) "Conveyance" includes a motor vehicle, a vessel, a motorboat, a sailboat, a personal watercraft, a container, a trailer, a live well, or a bilge area.

(3) "Decontaminate" means to:

(a) drain and dry all non-treated water; and

(b) chemically or thermally treat in accordance with rule.

(4) "Director" means the director of the division.

(5) "Division" means the Division of Wildlife Resources.

(6) "Dreissena mussel" means a mussel of the genus Dreissena at any life stage, including a zebra mussel, a quagga mussel, and Conrad's false mussel.

(7) "Equipment" means an article, tool, implement, or device capable of carrying or containing:

(a) water; or

(b) a Dreissena mussel.

(8) "Executive director" means the executive director of the Department of Natural Resources.

(9) "Facility" means a structure that is located within or adjacent to a water body.

(10) "Infested water" means a geographic region, water body, facility, or water supply system within or outside the state that the board identifies in rule as carrying or containing a Dreissena mussel.

(11) "Water body" means natural or impounded surface water, including a stream, river, spring, lake, reservoir, pond, wetland, tank, and fountain.

(12)

(a) "Water supply system" means a system that treats, conveys, or distributes water for irrigation, industrial, waste water treatment, or culinary use.

(b) "Water supply system" includes a pump, canal, ditch, or pipeline.

(c) "Water supply system" does not include a water body.

Enacted by Chapter 284, 2008 General Session