Ariz. Admin. Code § 12-4-301
In addition to the definitions provided under A.R.S. § 17-101 and R12-4-101, the following definitions apply to this Article unless otherwise specified:
"Administer" means to apply a drug directly to wildlife by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means.
"Aircraft" means any contrivance used for flight in the air or any lighter-than-air contrivance, including unmanned aircraft systems also known as drones.
"Artificial flies and lures" means man-made devices intended as visual attractants to catch fish. Artificial flies and lures does not include living or dead organisms or edible parts of those organisms, natural or prepared food stuffs, or chemicals or organic materials intended to create a scent, flavor, or chemical stimulant to the device regardless of whether it is added or applied during or after the manufacturing process.
"Atlatl" means a rod or narrow board-like device used to launch, through a throwing motion of the arm, a dart.
"Audio location device" means any device that captures broad spectrum, high definition sound and airwaves that is not held or manually operated by a person and is used to identify and locate wildlife.
"Barbless hook" means any fish hook manufactured without barbs or on which the barbs have been completely closed or removed.
"Body-gripping trap" means a device designed to capture an animal by gripping the animal's body.
"Confinement trap" means a device designed to capture wildlife alive and hold it without harm.
"Crayfish net" means a net that does not exceed 36 inches on a side or in diameter and is retrieved by means of a hand-held line.
"Deadly weapon" has the same meaning as provided under A.R.S. § 13-3101.
"Device" has the same meaning as provided under A.R.S. § 17-101.
"Dip net" means any net, excluding the handle, that is no greater than three feet in the greatest dimension, that is hand-held, nonmotorized, and the motion of the net is caused by the physical effort of the person.
"Drug" means any chemical substance, other than food or mineral supplements, that affects the structure or biological function of wildlife.
"Edible portions of game meat" means, for:
Upland game birds, migratory game birds and wild turkey: breast.
Bear, bighorn sheep, bison, deer, elk, javelina, mountain lion, and pronghorn antelope: front quarters, hind quarters, loins (backstraps), neck meat, and tenderloins.
Game fish: fillets of the fish.
"Evidence of legality" means the wildlife is accompanied by the applicable license, tag, stamp, or permit required by law and is identifiable as the "legal wildlife" prescribed by Commission Order, which may include evidence of species, gender, antler or horn growth, maturity, and size.
"Foothold trap" means a device designed to capture an animal by the leg or foot.
"Handgun" means a firearm designed and intended to be held, gripped, and fired by one or more hands, not intended to be fired from the shoulder, and that uses the energy from an explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire a single projectile through a barrel for each single pull of the trigger.
"Harvest limit" means an identified limit or threshold on the number of any one species permitted to be taken, during a specified time period, in a management unit or portion of a management unit, which when met closes the season for the remainder of the specified time period.
"Hybrid device" means a device with a combination of components from two or more lawful devices and is used for the take of wildlife, such as but not limited to a firearm, pneumatic weapon, or slingshot that shoots arrows or bolts.
"Instant kill trap" means a device designed to render an animal unconscious and insensitive to pain quickly with inevitable subsidence into death without recovery of consciousness.
"Land set" means any trap used on land rather than in water.
"Minnow trap" means a trap with dimensions that do not exceed 12 inches in depth, 12 inches in width, and 24 inches in length. "Muzzleloading handgun" means a firearm intended to be fired from the hand, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, and loaded with black powder or synthetic black powder and a single projectile.
"Muzzleloading rifle" means a firearm intended to be fired from the shoulder, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, having a single barrel, and using black powder or synthetic black powder, and loaded through the muzzle with a single projectile.
"Muzzleloading shotgun" means a firearm intended to be fired from the shoulder, incapable of firing fixed ammunition, having a single or double smooth barrel and using black powder or synthetic black powder, and loaded through the muzzle with ball shot as a projectile.
"Paste-type bait" means a partially liquefied substance used as a lure for animals.
"Pneumatic weapon" means a device that fires a projectile by means of air pressure or compressed gas. This does not include tools that are common in the construction and art trade such as, but not limited to, nail and rivet guns.
"Pre-charged pneumatic weapon" means an air gun or pneumatic weapon that is charged from a high compression source such as an air compressor, air tank, or internal or external hand pump.
"Prohibited possessor" has the same meaning as provided under A.R.S. § 13-3101.
"Prohibited weapon" has the same meaning as provided under A.R.S. § 13-3101.
"Rifle" means a firearm intended to be fired from the shoulder that uses the energy from an explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger. This does not include a pre-charged pneumatic weapon.
"Shotgun" means a firearm intended to be fired from the shoulder and that uses the energy from an explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire either ball shot or a single projectile through a smooth bore or rifled barrel for each pull of the trigger.
"Sight-exposed bait" means a carcass, or parts of a carcass, lying openly on the ground or suspended in a manner so that it can be seen from above by a bird. This does not include a trap flag, dried or bleached bone with no attached tissue, or less than two ounces of paste-type bait.
"Simultaneous fishing" means taking fish by using only two lines at one time and not more than two hooks or two artificial flies or lures per line.
"Single-point barbless hook" means a fishhook with a single point, manufactured without barbs, or on which the barbs have been completely closed or removed. This does not include a treble fishhook.
"Sinkbox" means a low-floating device with a depression that affords a hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of the water.
"Smart device" means any device equipped with a target-tracking system or an electronically-controlled, electronically-assisted, or computer-linked trigger or release. This includes but is not limited to smart rifles.
"Trail Camera" means any device that is not held or manually operated by a person and is used to capture images, video, or location, time, or date data of wildlife.
"Trap flag" means an attractant made from materials other than animal parts that is suspended at least three feet above the ground.
"Water set" means any trap used and anchored in water rather than on land.
Ariz. Admin. Code § R12-4-301