Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 62 — African Elephant Conservation
§ 4242. Certification under Pelly amendment
Statutory text
If the Secretary finds in administering this chapter that a country does not adhere to the CITES Ivory Control System, that country is deemed, for purposes of section 1978(a)(2) of title 22, to be diminishing the effectiveness of an international program for endangered or threatened species.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
African Elephant Conservation Act
Pub. L. 100–478 title II § 2303 · 102 Stat. 2306
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 4242
(Pub. L. 100–478, title II, § 2303, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2322.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–478, title II, § 2303, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2322.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 2303. CERTIFICATION UNDER PELLY AMENDMENT. If the Secretary finds in administering this title that a country does not adhere to the CITES Ivory Control System, that country is deemed, for purposes of section 8(a)(2) of the Act of August 27, 1954 (22 U.S.C. 1978), to be diminishing the effectiveness of an inter-national program for endangered or threatened species.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision