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16 U.S.C. § 712 — Treaty and convention implementing regulations; seasonal taking of migratory birds for essential needs of indigenous Alaskans to preserve and maintain stocks of the birds; protection and conservation of the birds
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(1) In accordance with the various migratory bird treaties and conventions with Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue such regulations as may be necessary to assure that the taking of migratory birds and the collection of their eggs, by the indigenous inhabitants of the State of Alaska, shall be permitted for their own nutritional and other essential needs, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, during seasons established so as to provide for the preservation and maintenance of stocks of migratory birds.
(2) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue such regulations as may be necessary to implement the provisions of the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, the convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 1936, the convention between the United States and the Government of Japan for the protection of migratory 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 environment concluded November 19, 1976.
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(1) In accordance with the various migratory bird treaties and conventions with Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue such regulations as may be necessary to assure that the taking of migratory birds and the collection of their eggs, by the indigenous inhabitants of the State of Alaska, shall be permitted for their own nutritional and other essential needs, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, during seasons established so as to provide for the preservation and maintenance of stocks of migratory birds.
(2) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue such regulations as may be necessary to implement the provisions of the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, the convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 1936, the convention between the United States and the Government of Japan for the protection of migratory 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 environment concluded November 19, 1976.
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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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**(a) Law enforcement training program**
(1) In order to provide for and encourage training, research, and development for the purpose of improving fish and wildlife law enforcement and developing new methods for the prevention, detection, and reduction of violation of fish and wildlife laws, and the apprehension of violators of such laws, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce may each—
(A) establish and conduct national training programs to provide, at the request of any State, training for State fish and wildlife law enforcement personnel;
(B) develop new or improved approaches, techniques, systems, equipment, and service to improve and strengthen fish and wildlife law enforcement; and
(C) assist in conducting, at the request of any appropriate State official, local or regional training programs for the training of State fish and wildlife law enforcement personnel.
Such training programs shall be conducted to the maximum extent practicable through established programs.
(2) There are authorized to be appropriated beginning with fiscal year 1980 such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of subsection (b), and the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce may each require reimbursement from the States for expenditures made pursuant to subsections (b)(1)(A) and (C).
**(b) Law enforcement cooperative agreement** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce may each utilize by agreement, with or without reimbursement, the personnel, services and facilities of any other Federal or State agency to the extent he deems it necessary and appropriate for effective enforcement of any Federal or State laws on lands, waters, or interests therein under his jurisd
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 715
operate with local authorities in the protection
of migratory birds and make the necessary in-
vestigations connected therewith.
(July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 9, as added June 20, 1936,
ch. 634, § 5, 49 Stat. 1556; amended 1939 Reorg.
Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53
Stat. 1433.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Act June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 5, 49 Stat. 1556, provided in
part that this section is effective as of the day afore-
said (June 30, 1937). See Effective Date of 1936 Amend-
ment note set out under section 703 of this title.
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS
Act June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 6, 49 Stat. 1557, provided:
‘‘That all moneys now or hereafter available for admin-
istration and enforcement of said Act approved July 3,
1918 [this subchapter], shall be equally available for the
administration and enforcement of said Act as hereby
amended.’’
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TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Sec-
retary or other official in Department of the Interior
under this subchapter to Federal Inspector, Office of
Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transpor-
tation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of
Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Nat-
ural Gas Transportation Projects, see Transfer of Func-
tions note set out under section 706 of this title.
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.
§ 710. Partial invalidity; short title
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of
this subchapter, which shall be known by the
short title of the ‘‘Migratory Bird Treaty Act’’,
shall,
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