Subdivision 1. Applicability. The terms defined in this section apply to this chapter and chapters 97B and 97C. Subd. 10. Commissioner. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of natural resources. Subd. 16. Director. “Director” means the director of any or all of the Divisions of Enforcement, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Ecological Services unless a specific division is identified. Subd. 17. Division. “Division” means any or all of the Divisions of Enforcement, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Ecological Services unless a specific division is identified. Subd. 39. Protected wild animals. “Protected wild animals” means big game, small game, game fish, rough fish, minnows, leeches, alewives, ciscoes, chubs, lake whitefish and the subfamily Coregoninae, rainbow smelt, frogs, turtles, clams, mussels, wolf, mourning doves, bats, snakes, salamanders, lizards, any animal species listed as endangered, threatened, or of special concern in Minnesota Rules, chapter 6134, and wild animals that are protected by a restriction in the time or manner of taking, other than a restriction in the use of artificial lights, poison, or motor vehicles. Subd. 55. Wild animals. “Wild animals” means all creatures, whether dead or alive, not human, wild by nature, endowed with sensation and power of voluntary motion, and includes mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, crustaceans, and mollusks.;
Citation: M.S.A. § 97A.015;