§916c — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Makes it illegal for people and vessels under U.S. authority to break the international whaling agreement or the rules made under it, including rules from the Secretary of Commerce. That means you cannot hunt whales against those rules, or trade, move, or keep any whale or whale products taken or processed in violation of those rules. You also must keep and give any required records or reports and let authorized officers inspect them at reasonable times. In short, anyone under U.S. authority must not do what the agreement and its rules forbid, and must do what they require.

Title 16, §916c

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (1) to engage in whaling in violation of the convention or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce; (2) to ship, transport, purchase, sell, offer for sale, import, export, or have in possession any whale or whale products taken or processed in violation of the convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce; (3) to fail to make, keep, submit, or furnish any record or report required of him by the convention, or by any regulation of the Commission, or by any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce, or to refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce the convention, the regulations of the Commission, this subchapter, and the regulations of the Secretary of Commerce, to inspect such record or report at any reasonable time.

(b)It shall be unlawful for any person or vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to do any act prohibited or to fail to do any act required by the convention, or by this subchapter, or by any regulation adopted by the Commission, or by any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Emergency Assistance for Subsistence Whale Hunters Pub. L. 107–372, title IV, § 403, Dec. 19, 2002, 116 Stat. 3102, provided that: “Notwithstanding any provision of law, the use of a vessel to tow a whale taken in a traditional subsistence whale hunt permitted by Federal law and conducted in waters off the coast of Alaska is authorized, if such towing is performed upon a request for emergency assistance made by a subsistence whale hunting organization formally recognized by an agency of the United States Government, or made by a member of such an organization, to prevent the loss of a whale.”

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section 916 of this title.

§916c Unlawful acts