Section 640.10  Definitions

Class A Permit – permit required for deer and turkey outfitters.

Class B Permit – permit required for waterfowl outfitters.

Client – an individual who provides, or who has provided on his or her behalf, financial or other consideration to an outfitter in exchange for outfitting services.

Department − the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR).

Guide – an individual providing guide services to clients of an outfitter.

Guide Services − any of the following: providing advice to the hunter while hunting about how and/or where to conduct his/her hunt, setting decoys, calling, stalking, pursuing, tracking, retrieving game, field dressing, caring for meat, field preparation of trophies including skinning or capeing, carriage of hunters in the field, carriage of hunter's equipment in the field or carriage of waterfowl, deer or turkey harvested by hunters.

Harvest Information Program or HIP – an annual registration mandated for gamebird hunters by the National Migratory Bird Harvest Program to compile annual wildlife estimates for waterfowl, doves and other migratory game birds.

Outfitter – a person (as defined in the Wildlife Code [520 ILCS 5/1.2l]), including an officer or employee of a person, who provides or offers to provide outfitting services for waterfowl, deer or wild turkey hunting.

Outfitting Services – any service that, for financial or other consideration, offers or promises waterfowl, deer and/or wild turkey hunting access, assistance, guidance or opportunity on private or leased lands by way of one or more of the following:

guides, guide services, or bringing or retrieving equipment, stands, blinds, decoys or a client to or from the field; or

access to property that the person providing access leases or rents for waterfowl, deer and/or wild turkey hunting; or

access to property subleased, at least in part, for waterfowl, deer or wild turkey hunting.

The following are not considered outfitting services for the purposes of this Part:

a hunting lease granted by a landowner to a hunter or group of hunters;  

providing transportation to or from a place of accommodation or a hub of public transportation;

for the purpose of waterfowl hunting, landowners or waterfowl hunting clubs or organizations that:

do not take compensation or fees other than annual membership and annual maintenance fees;

do not accept paying hunters on a day-to-day basis and are otherwise closed to the public; or

provide only waterfowl blinds or pits.

Resident Corporation – for the purpose of outfitter permitting, a resident corporation is an Illinois corporation that has been in existence for at least 30 days prior to submitting an application for an outfitter permit, and in which more than 50% of the stock is owned by Illinois resident individuals.

Resident Limited Liability Company – for the purpose of outfitter permitting, a resident limited liability company (LLC) is an Illinois LLC that has been in existence at least 30 days prior to submitting an application for an outfitter permit and in which more than 50% of the value of all units is held by Illinois resident individuals.

Waterfowl Blind or Pit – an area of concealment that is used to hide hunters from the sight of waterfowl.

(Source:  Amended at 42 Ill. Reg. 6414, effective March 21, 2018)