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D.C. Code § 8-2201

Definitions

Mar. 8, 2011, D.C

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term:

(1) “Animal Care and Control Agency” means the agency established by § 8-1802.

(2) “Department” means the District Department of the Environment.

(3) “Director” means the Director of the District Department of the Environment.

(4) “Licensed wildlife rehabilitator” means a wildlife rehabilitator licensed in any state or the District.

(5) “Wildlife” shall include any free-roaming wild animal, but shall not include:

(A) Domestic animals;

(B) Commensal rodents;

(C) Invertebrates; and

(D) Fish.

(6) “Wildlife control” means to harass, repel, evict, exclude, possess, transport, liberate, reunite, rehome, take, euthanize, or kill wildlife.

(7) “Wildlife control operator” means a person who is licensed to perform wildlife control services under § 8-2204, but shall not include the Animal Care and Control Agency or a property manager as defined by § 47-2853.141.

(8) “Wildlife control services provider” means the operator of a business which involves the charging of a fee for services in wildlife control.

Official source: D.C. Law Library (Council of the District of Columbia). Reproduced from public-domain District of Columbia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.