For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIR GUN. Any gun or device, by whatever name known, which is designed to expel or propel a projectile, pellet or missile, leaden or otherwise, by the action of compressed air or gas, or by the action
of a spring or elastic, but does not mean a firearm.
AUTHORIZED AGENT. Applies to any person or persons who have written and notarized permission from a farmer or rancher to destroy vermin on the farmer or rancher’s farmland.
BOWS. Any device, by whatever name known, which is designed to support any missile or arrow and which hurls, throws or flings the same by the expanding or flexing of any part of the apparatus, but does not mean a firearm.
BUILDING, STRUCTURE or EDIFICE. A space within its walls and usually, but not necessarily, covered with a roof.
FARMERS and/or RANCHERS. A person or persons who is actively engaged in the act of farming or ranching row crops, livestock, breeding stock or field crops.
FARMLAND. Agricultural land that is devoted to or best adaptable for the production of crops, fruits, timber and the raising of livestock; or assessed as agricultural land for property tax purposes.
FIREARM. In addition to I.C. 14-22-40-3, any weapon or device from which is propelled any missile, projectile, bullet, shot or pellet by means of explosives, compressed air or gas, or by means of springs, levers or other mechanical devices.
NUMBER 2 SHOTGUN PELLET. A shotgun pellet, specifically lead buckshot, with a diameter not to exceed 0.26 caliber (inches) and an average pellet weight of 29.4 grains.
SHOTGUN PELLETS. Shotgun pellets (shot) are classified into two general categories:
(1) Birdshot, of which individual pellets are typically less than 0.20 caliber in diameter; and
(2) Lead buckshot, which varies in diameter from 0.24 caliber to 0.36 caliber.
VERMIN. Any of the following animals that are in the process of causing damage to row crops, live stock, breeding stock or field crops.
(1) Deer;
(2) Beavers;
(3) Foxes;
(4) Coyotes;
(5) Skunks;
(6) Brown-headed cowbirds;
(7) Common grackles;
(8) Red-winged blackbirds;
(9) Rusty blackbirds;
(10) Brewer’s blackbirds; and
(11) Crows.
(Ord. 101204A, passed 12-14-2004)