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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 08.03.15.02" title_num="08" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="15" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Body gripping trap” means a mechanically powered rotating-jaw killing trap.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Commercial wildlife damage control operator” means a person who charges a fee or receives compensation for providing wildlife damage control services.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Control” means to capture, trap, kill, shoot, euthanize, or attempt to capture, trap, kill, shoot, or euthanize.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Direct supervision” means a supervisor and employee working at the same job site at the same time.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Governmental agency” means a unit of State, county, or municipal government, or a contractor of the unit established to provide wildlife damage control services.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Landowner” means a person:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Holding real property under title or lease; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Authorized to act on behalf of a landowner for wildlife damage control.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Public agency wildlife damage control operator” means a governmental agency that provides wildlife damage control services.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Rabies vector species” means bats, foxes, raccoons, and skunks.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>“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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>“USDA” means the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>“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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>“Wildlife damage control operator” means both commercial wildlife damage control operators and public agency wildlife damage control operators.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>“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.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>