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16 U.S.C. § 709a — Authorization of appropriations
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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and to accomplish the purposes of said conventions and of this subchapter and regulations made pursuant thereto, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized out of such moneys to employ in the city of Washington and elsewhere such persons and means as he may deem necessary for such purpose and may cooperate with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds and make the necessary investigations connected therewith.
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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and to accomplish the purposes of said conventions and of this subchapter and regulations made pursuant thereto, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized out of such moneys to employ in the city of Washington and elsewhere such persons and means as he may deem necessary for such purpose and may cooperate with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds and make the necessary investigations connected therewith.
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**(a) In general** Unless and except as permitted by regulations made as hereinafter provided in this subchapter, it shall be unlawful at any time, by any means or in any manner, to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to barter, barter, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, export, import, cause to be shipped, exported, or imported, deliver for transportation, transport or cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried, or receive for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export, any migratory bird, any part, nest, or egg of any such bird, or any product, whether or not manufactured, which consists, or is composed in whole or part, of any such bird or any part, nest, or egg thereof, included in the terms of the conventions between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916 (39 Stat. 1702), the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 1936, the United States and the Government of Japan for the protection of migratory birds and birds in danger of extinction, and their environment concluded March 4, 1972, and the convention between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the conservation of migratory birds and their environments concluded November 19, 1976.
**(b) Limitation on application to introduced species**
(1) **In general** — This subchapter applies only to migratory bird species that are native to the United States or its territories.
(2) **Native to the United States defined**
(A) *In general* — Subject to subparagraph (B), in this subsection the term “native to the United States or its territories” me
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Any employee of the Department of the Interior authorized by the Secretary of the Interior to enforce the provisions of this subchapter shall have power, without warrant, to arrest any person committing a violation of this subchapter in his presence or view and to take such person immediately for examination or trial before an officer or court of competent jurisdiction; shall have power to execute any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of competent jurisdiction for the enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter; and shall have authority, with a search warrant, to search any place. The several judges of the courts established under the laws of the United States, and United States magistrate judges may, within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases. All birds, or parts, nests, or eggs thereof, captured, killed, taken, sold or offered for sale, bartered or offered for barter, purchased, shipped, transported, carried, imported, exported, or possessed contrary to the provisions of this subchapter or of any regulation prescribed thereunder shall, when found, be seized and, upon conviction of the offender or upon judgment of a court of the United States that the same were captured, killed, taken, sold or offered for sale, bartered or offered for barter, purchased, shipped, transported, carried, imported, exported, or possessed contrary to the provisions of this subchapter or of any regulation prescribed thereunder, shall be forfeited to the United States and disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior in such manner as he deems appropriate.
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The duties and powers of the Department of the Interior include the preservation, distribution, introduction, and restoration of game birds and other wild birds. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to adopt such measures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds as may be required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various States and Territories. The object and purpose of this Act is to aid in the restoration of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the introduction of American or foreign birds or animals in localities where they have not heretofore existed.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 707
vested in Secretary of Energy subsequently transferred
to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Trans-
portation Projects by section 720d(f) of Title 15.
Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to
Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939,
see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 701
of this title.
§ 707. Violations and penalties; forfeitures
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this sec-
tion, any person, association, partnership, or
corporation who shall violate any provisions of
said conventions or of this subchapter, or who
shall violate or fail to comply with any regula-
tion made pursuant to this subchapter shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be fined not more than
$15,000 or be imprisoned not more than six
months, or both.
(b) Whoever, in violation of this subchapter,
shall knowingly—
(1) take by any manner whatsoever any mi-
gratory bird with intent to sell, offer to sell,
barter or offer to barter such bird, or
(2) sell, offer for sale, barter or offer to bar-
ter, any migratory bird shall be guilty of a fel-
ony and shall be fined not more than $2,000 or
imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
(c) Whoever violates section 704(b)(2) of this
title shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned not
more than 1 year, or both.
(d) All guns, traps, nets and other equipment,
vessels, vehicles, and other means of transpor-
tation used by any person when engaged in pur-
suing, hunting, taking, trapping, ensnaring, cap-
turing, killing, or attempting to take, capture,
or kill any migratory bird in violation of this
subchapter with the intent to offer for sale, or
sell, or offer for barter, or barter such bird in
violation of thi
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