1. A. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.

2. B. Terms Defined.

   1. (1) “Body gripping trap” means a mechanically powered rotating-jaw killing trap.
   2. (2) “Commercial wildlife damage control operator” means a person who charges a fee or receives compensation for providing wildlife damage control services.
   3. (3) “Control” means to capture, trap, kill, shoot, euthanize, or attempt to capture, trap, kill, shoot, or euthanize.
   4. (4) “Direct supervision” means a supervisor and employee working at the same job site at the same time.
   5. (5) “Governmental agency” means a unit of State, county, or municipal government, or a contractor of the unit established to provide wildlife damage control services.
   6. (6) “Jaw spread” means the maximum distance between the inside of both jaws of a trap, when measured across the trap jaws on a line perpendicular to a line drawn through the jaw pivot points when the trap is in a set position.

   7. (7) “Landowner” means a person:

      1. (a) Holding real property under title or lease; or
      2. (b) Authorized to act on behalf of a landowner for wildlife damage control.
   8. (8) “Public agency wildlife damage control operator” means a governmental agency that provides wildlife damage control services.
   9. (9) “Rabies vector species” means bats, foxes, raccoons, and skunks.
   10. (10) “Restricted use pesticide” means any pesticide so classified by Agriculture Article, Title 5, Annotated Code Maryland, the federal government, or the Maryland Secretary of Agriculture.
   11. (11) “USDA” means the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services.
   12. (12) “Wildlife” means any native species of mammal, bird, amphibian, or reptile, which spends a majority of its life cycle on land or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.
   13. (13) “Wildlife damage control operator” means both commercial wildlife damage control operators and public agency wildlife damage control operators.
   14. (14) “Wildlife damage control services” means the art and science of providing advice or services to reduce, eliminate, or prevent damage caused by wildlife to humans or property.

Authority: Natural Resources Article, §§1-104, 10-205, and 10-908; State Government Article, §10-206; Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: August 25, 2008 (35:17 Md. R. 1485)

Regulation .03A amended effective April 20, 2020 (47:8 Md. R. 435)

Regulation .04A amended effective November 30, 2009 (36:24 Md. R. 1857)

Regulation .24B amended effective March 17, 2014 (41:5 Md. R. 341)

Regulation .28E amended effective April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 569)

Regulation .28F adopted effective April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 569)