For the purpose of this article:

1. (a) "furbearing animal" includes red and gray fox, raccoon, opossum, muskrat, mink, skunk, otter, bobcat, weasel, or beaver;
2. (b) "fur buyer" means any person who purchases any whole furbearing animal, raw or green furs, pelts, or hides;
3. (c) "take" means to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or attempt to shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect;
4. (d) "commercial purposes" means taking or possessing any fur, pelt, hide, or whole animal for exchange, sale, trade, or barter and taking or possessing more than five furs, pelts, hides, or whole animals is taking for commercial purposes;
5. (e) "trapper" means any person who takes or attempts to take animals by trapping;
6. (f) "trap" means any device, other than a weapon, designed or constructed for taking animals;
7. (g) "foot-hold trap" means a steel-jawed, spring-loaded device designed to capture the animal by the foot;
8. (h) "live trap" means any box or cage designed for capturing and holding any animal unharmed;
9. (i) "processor" means any person engaged in tanning or dressing furs, pelts, or hides of furbearing animals for commercial purposes;
10. (j) "transfer" includes selling, bartering, exchanging, and transporting.

HISTORY: [Derived from former Section 50-11-4310 (1985 Act No. 148, Section 1)]; 1988 Act No. 561, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 567, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1262.