87-4-801. Definitions. As used in this part unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Roadside menagerie or zoo" means any place where one or more wild animals, including birds, reptiles, and the like, are kept in captivity for the evident purpose of exhibition or attracting trade. It does not include the exhibition of any animal by an educational institution or in a zoological garden chartered as a nonprofit corporation by the state and does not include animals exhibited by any traveling theatrical exhibition or circus.
     (2) "Wild animal" means an animal wild by nature as distinguished from the common domestic animals, whether the animal was bred or reared in captivity, and includes birds and reptiles.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 130, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 45, Ch. 511, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 26-1205.