23:2A-3 Definitions.

3. For the purposes of P.L.1973, c.309 (C.23:2A-1 et seq.), unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection;

"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection;

"Endangered species" means any species or subspecies of wildlife whose prospects of survival or recruitment are in jeopardy or are likely within the foreseeable future to become so due to any of the following factors: (1) the destruction, drastic modification, or severe curtailment of its habitat, or (2) its over-utilization for scientific, commercial or sporting purposes, or (3) the effect on it of disease, pollution, or predation, or (4) other natural or manmade factors affecting its prospects of survival or recruitment within the State, or (5) any combination of the foregoing factors. The term shall also be deemed to include any species or subspecies of wildlife appearing on any federal endangered species list;

"Nongame species" means any wildlife for which a legal hunting or trapping season has not been established or which has not been classified as an endangered species by statute or regulation of this State;

"Take" means to harass, hunt, capture, kill, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, or kill, wildlife;

"Wildlife" means any wild mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, mollusk, crustacean or other wild animal or any part, product, egg or offspring or the dead body or parts thereof.

L.1973, c.309, s.3; amended 1981, c.281, s.1; 2016, c.6, s.2.