Chapter 37, GAME AND PARKS
626 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-216 Cultured aquatic stock, defined.
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Cultured aquatic stock means aquatic organisms raised from privately owned stocks and aquatic organisms lawfully acquired and held in private ownership until they become intermingled with wild aquatic organisms.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-217 Disabled person, defined.
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Disabled person means any person certified by a physician to have a permanent physical impairment which limits personal mobility and results in an inability to travel unassisted more than two hundred feet without the use of a wheelchair, crutch, walker, prosthetic, orthotic, or o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-218 Ecologic harm, defined.
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Ecologic harm means significant loss, disadvantage, or injury to the relationships between organisms and their environment.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-219 Economic harm, defined.
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Economic harm means significant loss, disadvantage, or injury to personal or material resources.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-220 Ecosystem, defined.
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Ecosystem means a system of living organisms and their environment, each influencing the existence of the other and both necessary for the maintenance of life.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-221 Endangered Species Act, defined.
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Endangered Species Act means the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-222 Falconry, defined.
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Falconry means the sport of taking quarry by means of a trained raptor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-223 Fish, when used as a noun, defined.
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Fish, when used as a noun, means a cold-blooded, vertebrate animal, typically covered with scales, which breathes by gills, swims by body motion using fins for maneuvering, and is dependent upon water as a medium in which to live.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-224 Fish, when used as a verb, defined.
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Fish, when used as a verb, means to pursue, shoot, catch, capture, collect, harvest, kill, destroy, or attempt to pursue, shoot, catch, capture, collect, harvest, kill, or destroy.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-225 Fur harvesting, defined.
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Fur harvesting means taking or attempting to take any fur-bearing animal by any means as prescribed by rules and regulations of the commission.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-226 Fur-bearing animals, defined.
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Fur-bearing animals means all beaver, martens, mink, muskrats, raccoons, opossums, otters, bobcats, gray foxes, red foxes, badgers, long-tailed weasels, Canada lynx, and skunks, except mutation minks and mutation foxes.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-227 Game, defined.
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Game means all game fish, bullfrogs, snapping turtles, tiger salamanders, mussels, crows, game animals, fur-bearing animals, game birds, protected birds, and all other creatures protected by the Game Law.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-228 Game animals, defined.
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Game animals means all antelope, cottontail rabbits, deer, elk, mountain sheep, squirrels, mountain lions, moose, and bears.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-229 Game birds, defined.
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Game birds means coots, cranes, curlew, doves, grouse, partridges, pheasants, plovers, prairie chickens, quail, rails, snipes, swans, woodcocks, wild turkeys, and all migratory waterfowl.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-230 Game fish, defined.
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Game fish means all baitfish, commercial fish, and sport fish.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-231 Habitual offender, defined.
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Habitual offender means a person who has been convicted of violating the Game Law two or more times in any calendar year or who has been convicted of violating the Game Law three or more times in any ten-year period beginning with the date of the first conviction.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-232 Hunt, defined.
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Hunt means to pursue, shoot, catch, capture, collect, harvest, kill, destroy, or attempt to pursue, shoot, catch, capture, collect, harvest, kill, or destroy.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-233 Migratory game birds, defined.
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Migratory game birds means all doves, ducks, geese, rails, snipes, cranes, woodcocks, coots, and swans.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-233.01 Migratory waterfowl, defined.
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Migratory waterfowl means any ducks, geese, or brant upon which an open season has been established by the commission.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-234 Nongame fish, defined.
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Nongame fish means any species of fish not classified as game fish, threatened species, or endangered species in the Game Law or rules and regulations of the commission.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-235 Officer, defined.
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Officer means every person authorized to enforce the Game Law.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-236 Optimum carrying capacity, defined.
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Optimum carrying capacity means that point at which a given habitat can support healthy populations of wildlife species, having regard to the total ecosystem without diminishing the ability of the habitat to continue that function.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-237 Person, owner, proprietor, grantee, lessee, and licensee, defined.
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Person, owner, proprietor, grantee, lessee, and licensee means and includes individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, corporations, and municipalities.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-237.01 Protected bird, defined.
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Protected bird means all birds except game birds, English sparrows, European starlings, and pigeons other than Antwerp or homing pigeons, commonly called Carrier Pigeons.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-237.02 Preference point, defined.
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Preference point means a point or points accrued by an applicant for preference in a structured random permit drawing in which the draw is structured by the number of preference points and the applicants with the most points are drawn first.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-238 Raptor, defined.
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Raptor means any bird of the Accipitriformes, Falconiformes, or Strigiformes, including, but not limited to, caracaras, eagles, falcons, harriers, hawks, kites, osprey, owls, and vultures.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-239 Raw fur, defined.
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Raw fur means the untanned pelts of any fur-bearing animal except commercially reared mutations.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-240 Species, defined.
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Species means a category of biological classification which describes groups of organisms which show distinctive characteristics and which are able to interbreed.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-241 Sport fish, defined.
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Sport fish means those species of fish, as listed in rules and regulations of the commission, typically sought for recreation or consumption.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-242 Take, defined.
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Take means to harass, wound, hunt, trap, fish, harvest fur, or attempt to harass, wound, hunt, trap, fish, or harvest fur.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-243 Trap, defined.
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Trap means to take or attempt to take any wildlife by any snare, steel-jawed spring trap, or box trap.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-244 Upland game birds, defined.
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Upland game birds means all species and subspecies of quail, partridges, pheasants, wild turkeys, and grouse, including prairie chickens.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-245 Wild birds, defined.
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Wild birds means the species of birds native to, migrating to or through, or having established free-ranging populations in the State of Nebraska except the English sparrow, the European starling, and the common pigeon.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-246 Wild mammals, defined.
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Wild mammals means the species of mammals native to, migrating to or through, or having established free-ranging populations in the State of Nebraska except the fallow deer, the house mouse, the Norway rat, the black rat, the feral domestic dog, and the feral domestic cat.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-247 Wildlife, defined.
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Wildlife means any member of any nondomesticated species of the animal kingdom, whether reared in captivity or not, including any mammal, fish, bird, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, or other invertebrate and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-247.01 Wildlife abatement, defined.
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Wildlife abatement means to frighten, flush, haze, take, or kill certain wildlife to manage depredation, damage, or other threats to human health and safety or commerce caused by such wildlife.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-248 General penalty provision.
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Any person violating any of the provisions of the Game Law or any provisions of the rules or regulations adopted and promulgated by the commission, where a penalty is not otherwise fixed, shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor and shall be subject to a mandatory fine of at le…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-301 Commission; general authority.
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Except as otherwise provided in sections 37-302 to 37-313, 37-315, 37-317, 37-330, 37-425, and 37-608, the commission shall have sole charge of state parks, game and fish, recreation grounds, and all things pertaining thereto. All funds rendered available by law, including funds …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-302 Commission; stock game and fish.
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The commission shall adopt and carry into effect plans to replenish and stock the state with game and, whenever it is in the best interest of the public to do so, to stock the streams, lakes, and ponds, whether public or private, of this state with fish. It may plan such extensio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-303 Commission; acquire land; gifts and bequests; powers.
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(1) With the consent of the Governor, the commission may by purchase, when funds on hand or appropriated therefor are sufficient, or by gift, devise, or otherwise acquire title in the name of the State of Nebraska to sites situated outside organized municipalities, except as prov…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-304 Commission; rules and regulations; commission orders.
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(1) The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations, under the procedures set forth in the Administrative Procedure Act, governing the administration and use of all property, real and personal, under its ownership or control. (2) The commission shall adopt and promu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-305 Rules and regulations; camping areas; violation; penalty.
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The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to designate camping areas and permit camping on appropriate lands under its ownership or control. As a condition to such permission, the commission may prescribe such rules and regulations as are reasonable and proper…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-306 Rules and regulations; fire safety; violation; penalty.
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The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations permitting any type of fire, including the smoking of tobacco in any form, and providing for the size, location, and conditions under which a fire may be established on any area under its ownership or control. The comm…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-307 Rules and regulations; animals; violation; penalty.
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The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations permitting pets, domestic animals, and poultry to be brought upon or possessed, grazed, maintained, or run at large on any area or portion of any area under its ownership or control. Any person who brings, possesses, g…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-308 Rules and regulations; hunting, fishing, and trapping; use of weapons; violation; penalty.
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The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations, temporarily or permanently, permitting hunting, fishing, or the public use of firearms, bow and arrow, or any other projectile weapons or devices on any area or any portion of any area under its ownership or control. …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-308.01 Rules and regulations; appropriate hunting weapons.
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The commission shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations relating to the appropriate weapons which may be used for hunting wildlife. The rules and regulations shall take effect beginning January 1, 2004.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-309 Rules and regulations; water-related recreational activities; violation; penalty.
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The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations permitting swimming, bathing, boating, wading, waterskiing, and the use of any floatation device on all or any portion of any area under its ownership or control. Such regulations may include permission for swimming, b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-310 Rules and regulations; real and personal property; prohibited acts; violation; penalty.
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(1) The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations relating to the protection, use, or removal of any public real or personal property on any area under its ownership or control and may regulate or prohibit the construction or installation of any privately owned st…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-311 Rules and regulations; vendors; violation; penalty.
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The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations permitting the sale, trade, or vending of any goods, products, or commodities of any type in any area under its ownership or control. Any person who sells, trades, or vends any goods, products, or commodities of any ty…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-312 Commission permission; procedure.
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When the permission of the commission is required as a prerequisite to any activity set out in sections 37-305 to 37-313, such permission shall be established by resolution of the commission. The resolution may set out the circumstances under which the supervisor or managing offi…