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16 U.S.C. § 701 — Game and wild birds; preservation
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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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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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### Statutory Notes
Section, act May 25, 1900, ch. 553, § 5, 31 Stat. 188, provided that the dead bodies of game animals or game or song birds be subject to the laws of the State into which they are transported. See [section 3378(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3378/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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For the purpose of this title, “independent establishment” means—
(1) an establishment in the executive branch (other than the United States Postal Service or the Postal Regulatory Commission) which is not an Executive department, military department, Government corporation, or part thereof, or part of an independent establishment; and
(2) the Government Accountability Office.
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**(a) In general** The Director may issue permits which authorize acts otherwise prohibited by [section 2403(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section2403/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Applications for permits**
(1) Applications for permits under this section shall be made in such manner and form, and shall contain such information, as the Director shall by regulation prescribe.
(2) The Director shall publish notice in the Federal Register of each application which is made for a permit under this section. The notice shall invite the submission by interested parties, within 30 days after the date of publication of the notice, of written data, comments, or views with respect to the application. Information received by the Director as a part of any application shall be available to the public as a matter of public record.
**(c) Action by appropriate Secretaries on certain permit applications**
(1) If the Director receives an application for a permit under this section requesting authority to undertake any action with respect to—
(A) any native mammal which is a marine mammal within the meaning of section 1362(5) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title;
(B) any native mammal, native bird, or native plant which is an endangered species or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ([16 U.S.C. 1531](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1531&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.); or
(C) any native bird which is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act ([16 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.);
the Director shall submit a copy of the application to the Secreta
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The Secretary of the Interior shall have the power to authorize the importation of eggs of game birds for purposes of propagation, and he shall prescribe all necessary rules and regulations governing the importation of eggs of said birds for such purposes.
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**(a)** Subject to the provisions and in order to carry out the purposes of the conventions, referred to in [section 703 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section703&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, from time to time, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of such birds, to determine when, to what extent, if at all, and by what means, it is compatible with the terms of the conventions to allow hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, or export of any such bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, and to adopt suitable regulations permitting and governing the same, in accordance with such determinations, which regulations shall become effective when approved by the President.
**(b)** It shall be unlawful for any person to—
(1) take any migratory game bird by the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited area, if the person knows or reasonably should know that the area is a baited area; or
(2) place or direct the placement of bait on or adjacent to an area for the purpose of causing, inducing, or allowing any person to take or attempt to take any migratory game bird by the aid of baiting on or over the baited area.
**(c) Federal Framework Closing Date for Hunting of Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots.—**
(1) **Regulations relating to framework closing date.—**
(A) *In general.—* — In promulgating regulations under subsection (a) relating to the Federal framework for the closing date up to which the States may select seasons for migratory bird hunting, except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary sha
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It shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or carry, by any means whatever, from one State, Territory, or district to or through another State, Territory, or district, or to or through a foreign country, any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried at any time contrary to the laws of the State, Territory, or district in which it was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried. It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried contrary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the same was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried.
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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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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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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 701
Sec.
715k–2.
Omitted.
715k–3.
Authorization of appropriations for the pres-
ervation of wetlands and other waterfowl
habitat.
715k–4.
Accounting and use of appropriations.
715k–5.
Acquisition of lands.
715l, 715m. Repealed.
715n.
‘‘Take’’ defined.
715o.
National forest and power sites; use for mi-
gratory bird reservations.
715p.
Cooperation of State in enforcement of provi-
sions.
715q.
Expenses of commission; authorization of ap-
propriations.
715r.
Partial invalidity; validity of remainder.
715s.
Participation of local governments in revenue
from areas administered by the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service.
SUBCHAPTER IV—HUNTING AND CONSERVATION
STAMP TAX
718.
Repealed.
718a.
Prohibition on taking.
718b.
Sales; fund disposition; unsold stamps.
718b–1.
Disposition of unsold stamps.
718c.
Authorization and exemption.
718d.
Expenditure of funds.
718e.
Loans and transfers, alteration, and reproduc-
tion of stamps.
718f.
Enforcement.
718g.
Violations.
718h.
Cooperation.
718i.
Use of contest fees.
718j.
Definitions.
718k.
Use of fees collected for Federal migratory
bird permits.
SUBCHAPTER IV–A—PERMANENT ELECTRONIC
DUCK STAMP
718o.
Definitions.
718p.
Authority to issue electronic duck stamps.
718q.
State application.
718r.
State obligations and authorities.
718s.
Electronic stamp requirements; recognition
of electronic stamp.
718t.
Termination of State participation.
SUBCHAPTER V—JUNIOR DUCK STAMP
CONSERVATION AND DESIGN PROGRAM
719.
Establishment of Program.
719a.
Junior Duck Stamp.
719b.
Acceptance of gifts, devises, and bequests.
719b–1.
Definition of State.
719c.
Authorization of appropriations.
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERALLY
§ 701. Game and wild birds; p
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