29.936 Distribution of fish and game to food distribution services.
29.941 Assistance of law enforcement officers.
29.944 Exemption from liability.
29.947 Law enforcement aid program; spearfishing.
29.951 Resisting a warden.
29.954 False impersonation of warden.
29.957 Breaking seals of department.
29.961 Incorrect information.
29.964 Changing approval.
29.967 Prohibitions during periods of suspension or revocation.
29.971 General penalty provisions.
29.974 Penalties; repeaters.
29.977 Civil actions for damages caused by law violations.
29.981 Parties to a violation.
29.983 Wild animal protection assessments.
29.985 Fishing shelter removal assessment.
29.987 Natural resources assessments.
29.989 Natural resources restitution payments.
Ch. 29 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See definitions in s.
24.01.
Ch. 29 Note
NOTE: Chapter 29 was substantially renumbered and revised by
1997 Wis. Act 248. A conversion table showing the location of the content of the prior statutes in the new chapter is located at the end of this chapter. However, there is not a direct correspondence between the current statutes and the prior statutes.
DEFINITIONS
29.001
29.001
Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
29.001(3)
(3) "Address" means a street name and number or post-office box number, the name of the city, village or town, the state and the zip code.
29.001(6)
(6) "Aircraft" means any contrivance invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
29.001(12)
(12) "Approval" means any type of approval or authorization issued by the department under this chapter including any license, permit, certificate, card, stamp or tag unless the context requires a different meaning.
29.001(15)
(15) "Attending boat" means an open boat used to transport equipment, crew or catch of a licensed boat, provide assistance in the operation of fishing gear by the licensed boat or provide other assistance in the commercial fishing operations of a boat licensed under
s. 29.519.
29.001(16)
(16) "Boat" means any device capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.
29.001(18)
(18) "Carcass" means the dead body of any wild animal, including any part of the wild animal or the eggs of the wild animal.
29.001(21)
(21) "Documented boat" means a licensed commercial fishing boat with valid federal documentation under
s. 30.51 (2) (c) 2.
29.001(25)
(25) "Farm-raised fish" means a fish that is kept on a fish farm for propagation purposes or reared on a fish farm and that has not been introduced, stocked or planted into waters outside a fish farm or that has not escaped from a fish farm.
29.001(26)
(26) "Fish farm" has the meaning given in
s. 95.60 (1) (a), except that "fish farm" does not include a state or municipal fish hatchery or a private fishing preserve.
29.001(27)
(27) "Fishing" includes taking, capturing or killing fish, other than farm-raised fish, or attempting to take, capture or kill fish, other than farm-raised fish. When "fish" is used as a verb, it has the same meaning as "fishing".
29.001(29)
(29) "Freeze-out pond" means a natural, self-contained body of water in which freezing or anoxic conditions prevent the body of water from naturally sustaining a fish population at least twice every 5 years.
29.001(30)
(30) "Fur-bearing animals" includes otter, beaver, mink, muskrat, marten, fisher, skunk, raccoon, fox, weasel, opossum, badger, wolf, coyote, bobcat, cougar and lynx.
29.001(33)
(33) "Game" includes all varieties of wild mammals or birds.
29.001(36)
(36) "Game animals" includes deer, moose, elk, bear, rabbits, squirrels, fox and raccoon.
29.001(39)
(39) "Game birds" includes wild geese, brant, wild ducks, wild swan, rails, coots, gallinules, snipe, woodcock, plovers, sandpipers, ruffed grouse, prairie chicken, sharp-tailed grouse, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, Chukar partridge, bobwhite, quail, crows and wild turkey.
29.001(41)
(41) "Game fish" includes all varieties of fish except rough fish and minnows.
29.001(42)
(42) "Hunt" or "hunting" includes shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, capturing or killing or attempting to capture or kill any wild animal.
29.001(45)
(45) "Inland waters" means all waters not classified as outlying waters, including the bays, bayous and sloughs of the Mississippi river bottoms.
29.001(51)
(51) "Licensed boat" means a boat, other than an attending boat, included under a commercial fishing license.
29.001(54)
(54) "Minnow" includes a sucker not listed as endangered or threatened under
s. 29.604 (3), central mudminnow, tadpole madtom, stonecat, banded killifish, blackstripe topminnow, brook silverside, brook stickleback, ninespine stickleback, trout-perch, darter, log perch, sculpin. "Minnow" includes any minnow family cyprinid that is not listed as endangered or threatened under
s. 29.604 (3) and that is not a goldfish, grass carp, common carp or rudd. "Minnow" does not include any sucker, darter, sculpin or minnow species that is designated as detrimental under
s. 29.424.
29.001(57)
(57) "Motor vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle, including a combination of 2 or more vehicles or an articulated vehicle. "Motor vehicle" includes a snowmobile or an all-terrain vehicle. "Motor vehicle" does not include an aircraft or a vehicle operated exclusively on rails.
29.001(60)
(60) "Nongame species" means any species of wild animal not classified as a game fish, game animal, game bird or fur-bearing animal.
29.001(63)
(63) "Outlying waters" means Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's harbor and the Fox river from its mouth up to the dam at De Pere.
29.001(64)
(64) "Preexisting fish rearing facility" means a body of water that is a fish farm or part of a fish farm and that is not a self-contained body of water but that was licensed as a private fish hatchery, or as part of a private fish hatchery, under s.
29.52, 1995 stats., on January 1, 1998 and that has been continuously used to rear fish since that date.
29.001(66)
(66) "Registered boat" means a boat having a valid certificate of number issued under
s. 30.51.
29.001(69)
(69) "Resident" means a person who has maintained his or her place of permanent abode in this state for a period of 30 days immediately preceding his or her application for an approval. Domiciliary intent is required to establish that a person is maintaining his or her place of permanent abode in this state. Mere ownership of property is not sufficient to establish domiciliary intent. Evidence of domiciliary intent includes, without limitation, the location where the person votes, pays personal income taxes or obtains a driver's license.
29.001(72)
(72) "Resident senior citizen" means a resident who has attained the age of 65 years.
29.001(74)
(74) "Rough fish" includes suckers, not listed as endangered or threatened under
s. 29.604 (3), common carp, goldfish, freshwater drum, burbot, bowfin, garfish, sea lamprey, alewife, gizzard shad, rainbow smelt and mooneye.
29.001(75)
(75) "Self-contained body of water" means a body of water that has no inlet from or outlet to a natural body of water, except that it may have pipes or similar conduits to put in or withdraw water that are equipped with barriers that prevent the passage of fish between the body of water and the other waters of the state.
29.001(76)
(76) "Self-contained fish rearing facility" means any of the following:
29.001(76)(a)
(a) An artificial, self-contained body of water that is a fish farm or part of a fish farm.
29.001(81)
(81) "Sturgeon Bay" means that body of water lying south and east of a line commencing at the most northerly point of section 23, township 28 north, range 25 east, and running in a northeasterly direction to the water's edge on north line of section 13, same township and range.
29.001(84)
(84) "Trapping" includes the taking, or the attempting to take, of any wild animal by means of setting or operating any device that is designed or made to close upon, hold fast, or otherwise capture a wild animal. When "trap" is used as a verb, it has the same meaning as "trapping".
29.001(87)
(87) "Vehicle" means any device for moving persons or property or pulling implements from one place to another on land or rails or in the air.
29.001(90)
(90) "Wild animal" means any mammal, bird, fish, or other creature of a wild nature endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion.
29.001 History
History: 1997 a. 248 ss.
39 to
47,
49 to
75,
84.
GENERAL FISH AND GAME REGULATION
29.011
29.011
Title to wild animals. 29.011(1)
(1) The legal title to, and the custody and protection of, all wild animals within this state is vested in the state for the purposes of regulating the enjoyment, use, disposition, and conservation of these wild animals.
29.011(2)
(2) The legal title to a wild animal or carcass, taken or reduced to possession in violation of this chapter, remains in the state. The title to a wild animal or carcass, lawfully acquired, is subject to the condition that upon the violation of this chapter relating to the possession, use, giving, sale, barter or transportation of a wild animal or carcass by the owner, the ownership shall revert, as a result of the violation, to the state.
29.011 History
History: 1997 a. 248 s.
87.
29.014
29.014
Rule-making for this chapter. 29.014(1)
(1) The department shall establish and maintain open and closed seasons for fish and game and any bag limits, size limits, rest days and conditions governing the taking of fish and game that will conserve the fish and game supply and ensure the citizens of this state continued opportunities for good fishing, hunting and trapping.
29.014(2)(b)(b) All of the rules promulgated under this chapter are prima facie reasonable and lawful until found to be otherwise in a final determination by a court.
29.014(2)(c)
(c) Any reference to this chapter includes any rules promulgated under this chapter and any reference to any provision of this chapter includes any rules promulgated under that provision.
29.014(3)
(3) Any rule of the department is subject to review in the manner provided in
ch. 227, except that if the rule affects only the county in which the appellant resides, the appeal shall be to the circuit court of that county.
29.014(4)
(4) No person may challenge the validity of a rule promulgated under this chapter in any prosecution of that person for a violation of this chapter or rules promulgated under this chapter unless the person has previously brought a separate action under
s. 227.40 seeking a declaratory judgment on the validity of the rule.
29.014 History
History: 1997 a. 248 ss.
77 to
79,
383,
397,
399.
29.024
29.024
Approvals; forms; issuing agents. 29.024(1)
(1)
Approvals required. Except as specifically provided in this chapter, no person may hunt or trap in this state, fish in the waters of this state or engage in any of the activities regulated under this chapter unless the appropriate approval is issued to the person. A person shall carry the required approval with him or her at all times while hunting, trapping or fishing or engaged in regulated activities unless otherwise required by this chapter or unless otherwise authorized or required by the department. A person shall exhibit the approval to the department or its wardens on demand.
29.024(2)
(2) Conditions and restrictions on licenses and other approvals. 29.024(2)(a)(a) A hunting, trapping or fishing approval may be issued only to and obtained only by a natural person entitled to the approval.
29.024(2)(b)
(b) Except as provided under
s. 29.194 (1), a resident hunting, trapping or fishing approval may be issued only to a person who presents to the issuing agent or the department definite proof of his or her identity and that he or she is a resident.
29.024(2)(c)
(c) No more than one of the same series of approval may be issued to the same person for the same hunting or fishing season in any year except as authorized by the department.
29.024(2)(d)
(d) Except as provided under
s. 29.519 (2) (d) or by rule, no person may transfer his or her approval or permit the use of any approval by any other person.
29.024(2)(e)
(e) No person while hunting, trapping or fishing may use or carry any approval issued to another person, except that a person who accompanies and is assisting a disabled person may carry the disabled person's approval.
29.024(2)(f)1.1. Except as provided under
subd. 2. and as authorized by rules promulgated under
sub. (3m) (a) 2. [
sub. (5) (a) 2.], no person may obtain a hunting, trapping or fishing approval for another person.
