01-001-721 Me. Code R. § 1

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024

Section 001-721-1 - DEFINITIONS

A. Commissioner - means the Commissioner of the State of Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources.

B.Department - means the State of Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources.

C. Identification - means a method or item bearing identifying data. i.e. a tattoo or microchip that provides information for determining the owner or keeper of a wolf hybrid.

D. Keeper - means a person in possession or control of a wolf hybrid. A person becomes the keeper a wolf hybrid, if the person feeds that animal for at least 10 consecutive days.

E. Microchip - means a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit and includes an electronic device implanted into a wolf hybrid for the purposes of identification.

F. Owner - means any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation owning, keeping, or harboring a wolf hybrid.

G. Permanent Identification - means any method of identification that is indelible or otherwise continues or endures without marked change in status or condition or place.

H. Tattoo - means a permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars.

I.Wolf - means any of various large wild predatory canids (genus Canis) that live and hunt in packs and resemble the related dogs; Canis lupus, gray wolf, timber wolf brindled gray wolf of forested northern regions of North America, Arctic wolf, Canis lupus tundrarum, white wolf - wolf of arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail.

J.Wolf Hybrid - means a mammal that is the off spring of a species of wild canid or wild canid hybrid. "Wolf hybrid" includes a mammal that is represented by its owner or keeper to be a cross between a domestic dog (canis familiaris) and a wild canid or wild canid hybrid, and includes without limitation, any mammal that is represented by its owner or keeper to be a wolf hybrid, coyote hybrid, coy dog, or any other wild canid hybrid.

01-001 C.M.R. ch. 721, § 1