{"data":{"id":"us-il/515-ilcs-5-1-10","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"515 ILCS 5/1-10","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-790)\nAs used in this Code, terms are defined according to the following Sections.\n(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 104-790)\nDefinitions. As used in this Code:\n\"Administrative rule\" means a regulatory measure issued by the Director under this Code.\n\"Air rifle\" means an air gun, air pistol, spring gun, gas gun, spring pistol, B-B gun, pellet gun, or any implement that is not a firearm and propels a singular globular projectile or pellet constructed of steel, lead, or other hard materials by the use of compressed air, compressed gas, or spring power.\n\"Angling methods\" means the action of sport fishing by hook and line.\n\"Aquatic life\" means all fish, mollusks, crustaceans, algae, aquatic plants, aquatic invertebrates, and any other aquatic animals or plants that the Department identifies in administrative rules adopted after consultation with biologists, zoologists, or other wildlife experts. \"Aquatic life\" does not mean any herptiles that are found in the Herptiles-Herps Act.\n\"Aquatic life farm\" means property: (i) containing any or a combination of levee ponds, a strip mine lake, or other type of lake that has floating cages, raceways, or other aquatic life rearing equipment and (ii) where the owner of the aquatic life farm has posted a conspicuous written notice to that effect. If more than one person owns or has title to the lake, \"aquatic life farm\" means the area of the lake containing the floating cages, raceways, or other aquatic life rearing equipment.\n\"Authorized employee\" means all sworn members of the Law Enforcement Division and those specifically granted law enforcement authorization by the Director.\n\"Blow gun\" means a weapon, hunting, or fishing device consisting of a tube through which an arrow, dart, or projectile is propelled by force of the breath of a person.\n\"Combination license\" means an electronic or physical license authorizing the person to take a certain type of fish or animal during a specified period of time.\n\"Contraband\" applies to all aquatic life or any part of aquatic life taken, bought, sold or bartered, shipped, or held in possession, or any conveyance, vehicle, watercraft, or other means of transportation whatever, except sealed railroad cars or other common carriers, used to transport or ship any part of aquatic life so taken, contrary to this Code, including administrative rules, or used to transport, contrary to this Code, including administrative rules, any of the previously specified species when taken illegally.\n\"Daily limit\" means the maximum amount of aquatic life that a properly licensed individual is permitted to take in any one day.\n\"Department\" means the Department of Natural Resources.\n\"Director\" means the Director of Natural Resources.\n\"Dressed\" means having the head removed.\n\"Fishing\" means taking or attempting to take aquatic life in any waters of the State, by any method, and all other acts such as placing, setting, drawing, or using any device commonly used for the taking of aquatic life whether resulting in taking or not.\n\"Fishing license\" means an electronic or physical license authorizing the person to take a certain type of fish during a specified period of time.\n\"Hybrid\" means the offspring resulting from the crossbreeding of 2 different species.\n\"Indigenous species\" means those species of aquatic life specified by administrative rule.\n\"Individual\" means a natural person.\n\"Inland trout stamp\" means a special stamp issued by the Department authorizing taking or attempting to take trout in all waters except Lake Michigan.\n\"Minnow\" means any fish in the family Leuciscidae.\n\"Mussel devices\" includes any rake, fork, crow-foot bar, dredge, or air-breathing device described as follows: (i) rake or fork: any rake or fork with forks or tines used for collecting or assembling mussels; (ii) crow-foot bar: a bar of any material equipped with a series of hooks designed to take mussels by the insertion of the hooks between the shells of mussels; (iii) dredge: any hand-operated dredge with openings not larger than 2 feet in width used for taking mussels; and (iv) air-breathing device: any air-breathing apparatus that is attached to a diver and is used during the collecting of mussels.\n\"Mussels\" means any fresh water mussel or the shell of a mussel.\n\"Person\" includes the plural \"persons\", females as well as males, and shall extend and be applied to clubs, associations, corporations, firms, and partnerships as well as individuals.\n\"Resident\" means a person who in good faith makes application for any license or permit and verifies by statement that he or she has maintained his or her permanent abode in this State for a period of at least 30 consecutive days immediately preceding the person's application, and who does not maintain permanent abode or claim residency in another state for the purposes of obtaining any of the same or similar licenses or permits covered by this Code. A person's permanent abode is his or her fixed and permanent dwelling place, as distinguished from a temporary or transient place of residence. Domiciliary intent is required to establish that the person is maintaining his or her permanent abode in this State. Evidence of domiciliary intent includes, but is not limited to, the location where the person votes, pays personal income tax, or obtains a driver's license. Except for the purposes of obtaining a lifetime license, any person on active duty in the Armed Forces shall be considered a resident of Illinois during his or her period of military duty.\n\"Resident commercial fisherman\" means an individual who has actually resided in Illinois for one year immediately preceding his or her application for a commercial fishing license and who does not claim residency for a commercial fishing license in another state or country.\n\"Resident commercial musselor\" means an individual who has actually resided in Illinois for one year immediately preceding his or her application for a commercial mussel license and who does not claim residency for a commercial mussel license in another state or country.\n\"Roe\" means the eggs of fish that are whole and intact within the egg sac, whether within the body cavity of the fish or removed. \"Roe\" does not include eggs removed from the egg sac.\n\"Roe-bearing species\" means sturgeon, paddlefish, bowfin, and any other fish listed as such by the Department in an administrative rule.\n\"Salmon\" includes all the salmons and trouts.\n\"Salmon stamp\" means a special stamp issued by the Department authorizing taking or attempting to take salmon in Lake Michigan.\n\"Sport fisherman\" means an individual who uses or attempts to use sport fishing devices as stated in Sections 10-95, 10-110, and 10-140.\n\"Take\" means lure, kill, destroy, capture, gig or spear, trap or ensnare, or attempt to do so.\n\"Taxidermy\" means the art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of fish, birds, or mammals to make them appear lifelike.\n\"Transport\" or \"ship\" means to convey by parcel post, express, freight, baggage, or shipment by common carrier of any description; by automobile, motorcycle, or other vehicle of any kind; by water or aircraft of any kind; or by any other means of transportation.","path":["CHAPTER 515 FISH","Fish and Aquatic Life Code."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=1728\u0026ChapterID=42\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:38Z","sha256":"6284d3de2894b3c01d07ec09f980e504b80599d4edad5db4d0a52c5cfbc839ab","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/515-ilcs-5-1-5","next":"us-il/515-ilcs-5-1-15"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}