§5303 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Defines the main words used in the chapter. CITES is the international treaty on trade in endangered animals and plants, signed March 3, 1973, and its appendices. Conservation means the steps to restore rhino and tiger populations so they won’t go extinct, such as research, counts, law enforcement, protecting and managing habitat, land acquisition, breeding, live trapping, moving animals, and related actions. Fund is the account set up by Public Law 105–277 (division A, sec. 101(e), title I) labeled “multinational species conservation fund” (16 U.S.C. 4246). Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. Administrator means the Administrator of the Agency for International Development. Person includes individuals and private groups (like corporations, partnerships, trusts, or associations), federal, state, local, or foreign government officers, employees, agents, departments, or agencies, states or local governments, and any other entity under U.S. jurisdiction.

Title 16, §5303

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In this chapter—

(1)“CITES” means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed on March 3, 1973, and its appendices;

(2)“conservation” means the use of all methods and procedures necessary to bring rhinoceros and tigers to the point at which there are sufficient populations to ensure that those species do not become extinct, including all activities associated with scientific resource management, such as research, census, law enforcement, habitat protection, acquisition, and management, propagation, live trapping, and transportation;

(3)“Fund” means the the 11 So in original. account established by division A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105–277 under the heading “multinational species conservation fund” [16 U.S.C. 4246];

(4)“Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior;

(5)“Administrator” means the Administrator of the Agency for International Development; and

(6)“person” means—

(A)an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other private entity;

(B)an officer, employee, agent, department, or instrumentality of—

(i)the Federal Government;

(ii)any State, municipality, or political subdivision of a State; or

(iii)any foreign government;

(C)a State, municipality, or political subdivision of a State; or

(D)any other entity subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Division A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105–277, referred to in par. (3), is Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(e) [title I], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–231, 2681–232. Provisions under the heading “multinational species conservation fund” in Pub. L. 105–277, § 101(e) [title I] appear at 112 Stat. 2681–237, and are classified in part to section 4246 of this title.

Amendments

2002—Par. (3). Pub. L. 107–112 substituted “the account established by division A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105–277 under the heading ‘multinational species conservation fund’ ” for “Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund established under section 5305(a) of this title”. 1998—Par. (6). Pub. L. 105–312 added par. (6).

§5303 Definitions