Vermont § 4001 - Definitions Words and phrases used in this part, unless otherwise provided, shall be construed to mean as follows:

§ 4001. Definitions Words and phrases used in this part, unless otherwise provided, shall be construed to mean as follows:

• (1) Closed season: that period of time during which fishing or hunting is prohibited. (2) Open season: that period of time during which fishing or hunting is permitted. (3) Legal day: (A) Fishing: as provided by regulations of the Fish and Wildlife Board; (B) Hunting: as provided by regulations of the Fish and Wildlife Board; (C) [Repealed.] (D) Hunting raccoon: as provided by regulations of the Fish and Wildlife Board. (4) Angling: fishing by any of the following methods: (A) By means of hook and line in hand or attached to a rod, in accordance with regulations
  of the Board. (B) By casting or trolling artificial flies, lures, or baited hooks, in accordance with
  regulations of the Board. (5) Black bass: large mouth bass or small mouth bass. (6) [Repealed.] (7) [Repealed.] (8) Trout: brook, rainbow, and brown. (9) Game: game birds or game quadrupeds, or both. (10) Game birds: quail, partridge, woodcock, pheasant, plover of any kind, Wilson snipe,
  other shore birds, rail, coot, gallinule, wild ducks, wild geese, and wild turkey. (11) Partridge: ruffed grouse. (12) Game quadruped: caribou, elk, moose, deer, gray squirrel, rabbit, and black bear. (13) Rabbit: to include wild hare. (14) Fur-bearing animals: beaver, otter, marten, mink, raccoon, fisher, fox, skunk, coyote,
  bobcat, weasel, opossum, lynx, wolf, and muskrat. (15) Wild animals or wildlife: all animals, including birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles,
  other than domestic animals, domestic fowl, or domestic pets. (16) Private preserves: lands or waters where the taking of fish or wild animals is prohibited
  as provided in sections 5204-5206 of this title. (17) Propagation farms: lands or waters used for the propagation of fish or wild animals
  as provided in sections 5207-5209 of this title. (18) Person: includes principal, agent, employee, firm, partnership, corporation, and association. (19) Possession: actual or constructive possession or any control of things referred to. (20) Resident: a person who has resided in this State for the six months immediately prior
  to the date of making application for a license and who has not during that period
  claimed a residence in any other state for any purpose. (21) Nonresident: a person not a resident. (22) Sell, sold, or sale: barter, exchange, and offering or exposing for sale; and possession
  with intent to sell. (23) Take and taking: pursuing, shooting, hunting, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring,
  and netting fish, birds, and quadrupeds and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying,
  worrying, or wounding or placing, setting, drawing, or using any net or other device
  commonly used to take fish or wild animals, whether they result in the taking or not;
  and shall include every attempt to take and every act of assistance to every other
  person in taking or attempting to take fish or wild animals, provided that when taking
  is allowed by law, reference is had to taking by lawful means and in a lawful manner. (24) Transport and transportation: all carrying or moving or causing to be carried or moved. (25) Whole to include part: every provision in this part relating to any fish or wild animal
  shall be deemed to apply to any part thereof with the same force and effect as it
  applies to the whole. (26) Inclusion and exclusion of dates: except as herein otherwise specially provided, when
  a period is named during which an act is permitted or prohibited, the first date shall
  be included within and the last excluded from such period. (27) Commissioner: Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife. (28) Board: Fish and Wildlife Board. (29) Bow in the phrase “bow and arrow”: hand-held bow, including a long bow, recurve bow,
  or compound bow. (30) Person with paraplegia: a person who has permanent paralysis of the lower half of
  the body with involvement of both legs, or a person who is missing both lower extremities. (31) Big game: deer, bear, moose, wild turkey, caribou, elk, and anadromous Atlantic salmon
  taken in the Connecticut River Basin. (32) Field trials: a competitive event held by an organized club for the purpose of demonstrating
  the skill of hunting and retrieving dogs under hunting conditions. (33)(A) Muzzle loading firearm: a single-shot, single-barrel rifle, or smoothbore firearm,
  with a minimum barrel length of 20 inches, designed to be fired from the shoulder
  or a single-shot pistol with a minimum barrel length of 10 inches