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CITE

    16 USC Sec. 704                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 7 - PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
    SUBCHAPTER II - MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY

HEAD

    Sec. 704. Determination as to when and how migratory birds may be
      taken, killed, or possessed

STATUTE

      (a) Subject to the provisions and in order to carry out the
    purposes of the conventions, referred to in section 703 of this
    title, 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.

SOURCE

    (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, Sec. 3, 40 Stat. 755; June 20, 1936, ch.
    634, Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 1556; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 4(f),
    eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 105-312,
    title I, Sec. 102, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2956.)

AMENDMENTS

      1998 - Pub. L. 105-312 designated existing provisions as subsec.
    (a) and added subsec. (b).
      1936 - Act June 20, 1936, substituted "conventions" for
    "convention" wherever appearing.
                     EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1936 AMENDMENT
      Section effective June 30, 1937, see section 1 of act of June 20,
    1936, set out as a note under section 703 of this title.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

      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.
                          DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS
      For delegation to Secretary of the Interior of authority vested
    in President, see Ex. Ord. No. 10752, Feb. 12, 1958, 23 F.R. 973,
    set out as a note under section 715j of Title 15, Commerce and
    Trade.
      Secretary of the Interior empowered to promulgate regulations
    under this section without approval, ratification, or other action
    of President, see section 2(b) of Ex. Ord. No. 10250, June 5, 1951,
    16 F.R. 5385, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The
    President.

MISCELLANEOUS

                   REPORT ON EFFECTS OF 1998 AMENDMENTS
      Pub. L. 105-312, title I, Sec. 104, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat.
    2956, provided that: "Not later than 5 years after the date of
    enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 1998], the Secretary of the
    Interior shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public
    Works of the Senate and the Committee on Resources [now Committee
    on Natural Resources] of the House of Representatives a report
    analyzing the effect of the amendments made by section 2 [probably
    should be section 102, which amended this section], and the general
    practice of baiting, on migratory bird conservation and law
    enforcement efforts under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C.
    701 et seq.) [16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.]."