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2025 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 17 - Game and Fish
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 - Definitions and Authority of the State
Article 1 - Membership
Article 2 - Director and Employees
Article 3 - Powers and Duties
Article 3.1 - Aquatic Invasive Species
Article 4 - Fiscal Provisions
Article 5 - Conservation Development Fund
Article 6 - Arizona Game and Fish Commission Heritage Fund
Article 7 - Arizona Wildlife Conservation Fund Chapter 3 - TAKING AND HANDLING OF WILDLIFE
Article 1 - General Regulations
Article 2 - Licenses
Article 3 - Trappers, Guides, Taxidermists and Fur Dealers
Article 4 - Transportation and Storage
Article 1 - Restoration Projects
Article 2 - Fish Hatching and Fish Culture Chapter 4 - CONSERVATION PROJECTS AND FEDERAL COOPERATION
Article 3 - Wildlife Habitat Protection
Article 4 - Wildlife Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Fund Chapter 4 - CONSERVATION PROJECTS AND FEDERAL COOPERATION
Article 5 - Use of Aquatic Poisons Chapter 4 - CONSERVATION PROJECTS AND FEDERAL COOPERATION
Article 6 - Livestock Loss Board
Article 7 - Endangered Species Conservation and Coordination
Article 1 - Adoption Chapter 6 - SHOOTING RANGES
Article 1 - Outdoor Shooting Range Noise Standards
Article 2 - Disclosure of Proximity to Shooting Range
Article 1 - Definitions and Authority of the State
- § 17-101 - Definitions
- § 17-102 - Wildlife as state property; exceptions
- § 17-103 - Duties of county attorneys
- § 17-104 - Duties of peace officers as special game rangers
- § 17-105 - Immunity of witnesses
Article 1 - Membership
- § 17-201 - Game and fish department and game and fish commission members; appointment; removal; meetings
- § 17-202 - Arizona game and fish commission appointment recommendation board
Article 2 - Director and Employees
- § 17-211 - Director; selection; removal; powers and duties; employees
- § 17-212 - Director's seal; authentication of records
- § 17-213 - Prohibition on political activity
- § 17-214 - Arizona game and fish department reserve; members; powers and duties; compensation
- § 17-215 - Fingerprint clearance card; employees; volunteers
Article 3 - Powers and Duties
- § 17-231 - General powers and duties of the commission
- § 17-232 - Agreements with other states for reciprocal use of licenses
- § 17-233 - Acquisition and disposition of buffalo and buffalo meat
- § 17-234 - Open or closed seasons; bag limits; possession limits
- § 17-235 - Migratory birds
- § 17-236 - Taking birds; possession of raptors
- § 17-237 - Pollution of waters
- § 17-238 - Special licenses for field trials, for shooting preserves and for collecting or holding wildlife in captivity
- § 17-239 - Wildlife depredations; investigations; corrective measures; disposal; reports; judicial review
- § 17-240 - Disposition of wildlife; devices; unlawful devices; notice of intention to destroy; waiting period; destruction; jurisdiction of recovery actions; disposition of unclaimed property
- § 17-241 - Acquisition and disposition of lands and waters; retention of rights; disposition of proceeds
- § 17-242 - Guaranteeing irrigation district assessment; sale of land located within federal reclamation projects and irrigation districts
- § 17-243 - Sale of surplus products of federal aid projects; disposition of proceeds
- § 17-244 - Bulletin; refuge signboards; posted lands
- § 17-245 - Training courses
- § 17-246 - Ground leases; installment purchase of facilities
- § 17-247 - Terms of agreements
- § 17-248 - Certification of installment purchase agreements by the attorney general
- § 17-249 - Inmate labor
- § 17-250 - Wildlife diseases; order of director; violation; classification; rule making exemption
- § 17-251 - Possession or use of a firearm silencer or muffler while hunting; definition
- § 17-252 - Geospatial data and geographic information system services; wildlife species location information; disclosure or inspection; definitions
- § 17-253 - Mexican gray wolf; memorandum of understanding; reporting
Article 3.1 - Aquatic Invasive Species
- § 17-255 - Definition of aquatic invasive species
- § 17-255.01 - Aquatic invasive species program; powers
- § 17-255.02 - Prohibitions
- § 17-255.03 - Violations; civil penalties; classification; cost recovery
- § 17-255.04 - Applicability; no private right of action
Article 4 - Fiscal Provisions
- § 17-261 - Game and fish fund
- § 17-261.01 - Game and fish revolving fund
- § 17-262 - Investment of surplus funds; earned interest
- § 17-263 - Membership dues
- § 17-264 - Budget appropriation
- § 17-265 - Game and fish in-lieu fee program restoration endowment trust fund; exemption; definition
- § 17-266 - Construction by employees or force account
- § 17-267 - Land and water conservation and recreation development fund
- § 17-268 - Game, non-game, fish and endangered species fund
- § 17-269 - Game and fish publications revolving fund
- § 17-271 - Wildlife endowment fund
- § 17-272 - Voluntary contributions in lieu of property taxes
- § 17-273 - Firearms safety and ranges fund; uses; criteria
- § 17-274 - Arizona game and fish department fleet vehicle replacement fund
- § 17-275 - Arizona game and fish department fleet operations fund
Article 5 - Conservation Development Fund
- § 17-281 - Definitions
- § 17-282 - Conservation development fund; purposes
- § 17-283 - Issuance of bonds; negotiability; resolution; notice; tax exemption
- § 17-284 - Pledges; lien; personal liability; incontestability
- § 17-285 - Bonds as legal investments; state nonliability
- § 17-286 - Certification of bonds by attorney general
- § 17-287 - Impairment of bondholder rights; prohibition; inclusion in resolutions and indentures
- § 17-288 - Distributions from the conservation development fund
- § 17-289 - Bond proceeds fund; investment
- § 17-290 - Designation of fiscal agent and trustees; monies of the authority; fees
- § 17-291 - Additional bonds
- § 17-292 - Capital improvement fund
- § 17-293 - Unlawful interest in real property by commission member; violation; classification
- § 17-294 - Annual audit of funds
- § 17-295 - Limitation on bonding
Article 6 - Arizona Game and Fish Commission Heritage Fund
- § 17-296 - Definitions
- § 17-297 - Arizona game and fish commission heritage fund
- § 17-298 - Expenditures from fund; purpose and amounts; annual report
- § 17-298.01 - Decennial performance audit
Article 7 - Arizona Wildlife Conservation Fund Chapter 3 - TAKING AND HANDLING OF WILDLIFE
Article 1 - General Regulations
- § 17-301 - Times when wildlife may be taken; exceptions; methods of taking
- § 17-301.01 - Protection from wildlife
- § 17-302 - Taking of bear or mountain lion for protection of property; report
- § 17-302.01 - Taking of wolves for protection of life or property
- § 17-303 - Taking or driving wildlife from closed areas or while trespassing
- § 17-304 - Prohibition by landowner on hunting, fishing, trapping or guiding; trespassing; posting; requirements
- § 17-305 - Possession of other weapons while hunting; violation; classification
- § 17-306 - Importation, transportation, release or possession of live wildlife; violations; classification
- § 17-307 - Possession, storage, sale and gift of the carcass or parts thereof of wildlife
- § 17-308 - Unlawful camping
- § 17-309 - Violations; classification
- § 17-310 - Agreement to appear in court
- § 17-311 - Duty to report shooting accident resulting in injury or death; duty to give assistance; authority of officers
- § 17-312 - Misuse of firearms
- § 17-313 - Disposition of fines, forfeitures and penalties; reports
- § 17-314 - Illegally taking, wounding, killing or possessing wildlife; civil penalty; enforcement
- § 17-315 - Wildlife theft prevention fund; authorized expenditures
- § 17-316 - Interference with rights of hunters; classification; civil action; exceptions
- § 17-317 - Possession and containment of white amur; determination of closed aquatic system
- § 17-318 - Disease assessment and treatment before importing wildlife and transporting big game
- § 17-319 - Big game animals; carcasses; possession and transportation; salvage permit; requirements; violation; classification
- § 17-320 - Jaguar; protection; violations; classification; civil liability; exceptions
Article 2 - Licenses
- § 17-331 - License or proof of purchase required; violation of child support order
- § 17-332 - Form and content of license; duplicate licenses; transfer of license prohibited; exceptions; refunds; period of validity; definitions
- § 17-333 - License classifications; fees; reduced fee and complimentary licenses; annual report; review
- § 17-333.02 - Trapping license; education; exemption
- § 17-334 - Sale of licenses
- § 17-335 - Blind resident; fishing license exemption
- § 17-335.01 - Lifetime license and benefactor license
- § 17-337 - Hunting and fishing licenses; armed forces members and spouses
- § 17-337.01 - Licenses for enrollees in the job corps
- § 17-338 - Remission of fees from sale of licenses and permits; violation; classification
- § 17-339 - Reports and returns by license dealers; noncompliance; classification
- § 17-340 - Revocation, suspension and denial of privilege of taking wildlife; civil penalty; notice; violation; classification
- § 17-341 - Violation; classification
- § 17-342 - Colorado river special use permit
- § 17-343 - Reciprocal sale of licenses and special use permits
- § 17-344 - Period of validity of special permits
- § 17-345 - Surcharges; purposes
- § 17-346 - Special big game license tags
Article 3 - Trappers, Guides, Taxidermists and Fur Dealers
- § 17-361 - Trappers; licensing; restrictions; duties; reports
- § 17-362 - Guide license; violations; annual report
- § 17-363 - Practice of taxidermy; registration required; rules; register; revocation; suspension; civil penalty
- § 17-364 - Fur dealer's license; records; reports
Article 4 - Transportation and Storage
- § 17-371 - Transportation, possession and sale of wildlife and wildlife parts
- § 17-372 - Shipment by common carrier
- § 17-373 - Storage; exception
Article 1 - Restoration Projects
- § 17-401 - Definitions
- § 17-402 - Acceptance of federal aid acts
- § 17-403 - Restoration projects
- § 17-404 - Acquisition of lands
- § 17-405 - Acceptance of grants
- § 17-406 - Revolving fund; appropriation; purpose and reimbursement
- § 17-407 - Acquisition of lands by United States for migratory bird conservation
Article 2 - Fish Hatching and Fish Culture Chapter 4 - CONSERVATION PROJECTS AND FEDERAL COOPERATION
Article 3 - Wildlife Habitat Protection
- § 17-451 - Definitions
- § 17-452 - Restrictions on motor vehicle use; recommendations; agreements; rules
- § 17-453 - Notices of restrictions; posting; publication
- § 17-454 - Prohibition against vehicle travel
- § 17-455 - Exceptions
- § 17-456 - Expenditure of funds; source; functions
- § 17-457 - Enforcement of article
- § 17-458 - Violations; classification
Article 4 - Wildlife Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Fund Chapter 4 - CONSERVATION PROJECTS AND FEDERAL COOPERATION
Article 5 - Use of Aquatic Poisons Chapter 4 - CONSERVATION PROJECTS AND FEDERAL COOPERATION
Article 6 - Livestock Loss Board
- § 17-491 - Livestock loss board; members; terms; compensation; annual report
- § 17-492 - Powers and duties; definition
- § 17-493 - Livestock compensation fund; exemption; definition
Article 7 - Endangered Species Conservation and Coordination
- § 17-495 - Definitions
- § 17-495.01 - Property owner confidentiality; disclosure; consent; civil penalty
Article 1 - Adoption Chapter 6 - SHOOTING RANGES
Article 1 - Outdoor Shooting Range Noise Standards
- § 17-601 - Definition of outdoor shooting range
- § 17-602 - State outdoor shooting range noise standards; preemption; measurement; definitions
- § 17-603 - Preexisting outdoor shooting ranges; noise buffering or attenuation
- § 17-604 - Nighttime outdoor shooting range operations
- § 17-605 - Noise pollution; nuisance; defense; costs
Article 2 - Disclosure of Proximity to Shooting Range
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