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Rhode Island Administrative Code
Title 250 - Department of Environmental ManagementChapter 60 - Fish and WildlifeSubchapter 00 - N/A
Part 3 - Rules and Regulations Governing Nuisance Wildlife Control Specialists
Section 250-RICR-60-00-3.5 - Definitions

250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-60-00-3.5

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Section 250-RICR-60-00-3.5 - Definitions
A. Wherever used in these Rules and Regulations the following terms shall be construed as follows:
1. "Anchor or Anchor point" means a method for attaching traps, or cable restraint devices to a rigid and immovable object, such as a driven stake(s), earth anchor, post, or tree; also called an anchor system.
2. "Animal" or "Animals" means every living creature except a human being.
3. "Bite" or "Bitten" means that the skin has been penetrated by an animal's tooth or teeth.
4. "Breakaway lock" means any component incorporated into a cable restraint device that allows the loop to break open and the animal to escape completely free of the device; when a specified amount of force is applied, breakaway locks prevent the capture and restraint of white-tailed deer.
5. "Cable restraint" means a live capture trap that relaxes with a release of tension allowing animals to be captured alive. Cable restraints include two swivels to prevent animal entanglement. Cable restraints include a breakaway lock and ferrule(s) to prevent the capture and restraint of white-tailed deer and other non-target animals.
6. "Department" or "DEM" means the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
7. "Director" means the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, or his/her duly authorized agent or agents.
8. "Division" means the Division of Fish & Wildlife of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
9. "Endangered species" means any animal so declared by the United States secretaries of the interior or commerce under the provisions of the Federal Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1532 (2018), or animal so declared by the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 20-37-2(3).
10. "Environmental police officer" means the Chief of the DEM Division of Law Enforcement, the deputy chiefs and all officers of the Division of Law Enforcement.
11. "Euthanasia" means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that involves instantaneous loss of consciousness followed immediately by death or by a method that involves anesthesia produced by an agent which causes painless and rapid loss of consciousness and death during that period of unconsciousness. All methods of euthanasia must comply with Rhode Island General Laws.
12. "Ferrule" means a component designed to join two points of a cable together or to act as a stop, which regulates the maximum and/or minimum loop size of a cable device.
13. "Fish and Wildlife" or "F&W" means the Department of Environmental Management's Division of Fish and Wildlife.
14. "Lock" means a mechanical component designed to create and maintain a loop in a cable and prevents the loop, after closure upon an animal, from re-opening to a diameter that allows the desired animal to escape.
15. "Nuisance Wildlife Control Specialist", "NWCS" or "Permittee" means any person issued a permit pursuant to the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 20-1-18 and 20-1-2 I, for the control of nuisance wildlife.
16. "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, joint stock company, corporation, association, trust, estate, municipality, or other government entity or other legal entity.
17. "Relaxing lock" means a lock that allows the loop of a cable restraint to loosen slightly to reduce the possibility of strangulation.
18. "Site of capture" means the parcel of land on which the problem animal was captured and which is owned or leased by the person who captured the problem animal or who engaged a Nuisance Wildlife Control Specialist to affect such capture.
19. "Snare" means a lethal capture trap that closes completely and causes asphyxiation and entanglement.
20. "Swivel device" means a component used to allow free rotation of a cable restraint device.
21. "Translocation" means the transport and release of animals from one location to another.
22. "Wildlife control services" means to harass, repel, evict, exclude, capture, posses, transport, liberate, destroy; or attempt to harass, repel, evict, exclude, capture, posses, transport, liberate or destroy a problem wild animal. This is to include the disturbance, removal, or destruction or attempted disturbance, removal, or destruction of nests, dens, lodges, or burrows.

250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-60-00-3.5

Amended effective 12/26/2018
Amended effective 7/11/2023
Amended effective 8/8/2024