Section 503.200 - DefinitionsAs used in NAC 503.200 to 503.470, inclusive, and sections 2 to 10, inclusive, of LCB File No. R160-22, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Abatement" means the training and use of a raptor to flush, haze or take wildlife for the purpose of mitigating depredation and nuisance problems, including, without limitation, threats to human health and safety.2. "Bate" means to attempt to fly while tethered.3. "Captive-bred" or "bred in captivity" means raptors, including eggs, hatched in captivity from parents that mated or otherwise transferred gametes in captivity.4. "Captivity" means a live raptor that is held in a controlled environment which is intensively manipulated by humans for the purpose of producing raptors of selected species, and which has boundaries designed to prevent raptors, eggs or gametes of the selected species from entering or leaving the controlled environment.5. "Eyas" means a nestling bird not yet capable of flight.6. "Facility" means an indoor or outdoor facility used for housing a raptor.7. "Falconry" means the sport of taking, or attempting to take, quarry by means of a trained raptor.8. "Falconry licensee" means a person who holds an apprentice, general or master falconry license.9. "Form 3-186A" means: (a) Form 3-186A provided by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; or(b) If the United States Fish and Wildlife Service no longer provides Form 3-186A, any form provided by the Department for reporting the acquisition, transfer, release, loss, rebanding, implantation, death or theft of a raptor.10. "Hack" means to train a raptor for falconry by temporarily releasing and subsequently taking the raptor.11. "Hybrid raptor" means a raptor that is the offspring of raptors recognized by ornithological authorities as two or more distinct species listed in 50 C.F.R. § 10.13.12. "Owner of a raptor" means a person who has reported the acquisition of a raptor to the Department on Form 3-186A and who has not subsequently reported the transfer, release, loss, death or theft of the raptor to the Department on Form 3-186A.13. "Passage" means a bird that has fledged and is less than 1 year of age.14. "Raptor" means a live migratory bird of the order Accipitriformes, Falconiformes or Strigiformes, other than the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), regardless of whether the raptor was originally taken from the wild or is a captive-bred raptor, is a hybrid raptor, is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as amended, 16 U.S.C. §§ 703 et seq., or is used in falconry.15. "Raptor rehabilitator" means a person who has been issued a permit to rehabilitate raptors pursuant to NAC 503.315.16. "Retake" means to take, by a falconry licensee who is not the person who originally identified the raptor as a falconry raptor, a raptor that has been marked with a leg band, transmitter or any other item identifying it as a falconry raptor.17. "Take" means to trap or capture, or attempt to trap or capture, a raptor for the purpose of falconry.Nev. Admin. Code § 503.200
Bd. of Fish & Game Comm'rs, No. 15 §25.3, eff. 6-1-72; A 12-15-76; 12-30-77-NAC A by Bd. of Wildlife Comm'rs, 4-27-84, eff. 5-25-84; 7-1-97; R046-11 & R047-11, 4-5-2013; A by R160-22A, eff. 8/1/2023; A by R053-23A, eff. 2/13/2024NRS 501.105, 501.181, 503.582, 503.583