Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§709a Authorization of Appropriations
Title 16 › CHAPTER 7 — PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS › SUBCHAPTER II — MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY › § 709a
Summary
The government can use available Treasury money, as needed, to carry out those conventions, this subchapter, and the rules made under them. The Secretary of the Interior can use that money to hire staff, work with local officials to protect migratory birds, and do the investigations needed.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §709a
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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.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
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 aforesaid (
June 30, 1937). See
Effective Date
of 1936 Amendment note set out under section 703 of this title. Availability of FundsAct June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 6, 49 Stat. 1557, provided: “That all moneys now or hereafter available for administration 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.”
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of certain
Enforcement
functions of Secretary or other official in Department of the Interior under this subchapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see
Transfer of Functions
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.
Reference
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 709a
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
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