§ 4244. Definitions

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.

1. 1988

   African Elephant Conservation Act

   Pub. L. 100–478 title II § 2305 · 102 Stat. 2306

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 4244

   Pub. L. 100–478, title II, § 2305, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2322

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 100–478, title II, § 2305, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2322

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 2305. DEFINITIONS. In this title— (1) the term “African elephant” means any animal of the species loxodonta africana; (2) the term “CITES” means the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; (3) the term “CITES Ivory Control System” means the ivory quota and marking system established by CITES to curtail illegal trade in African elephant ivory; (4) the term “Fund” means the African Elephant Conservation Fund established by section 2102; (5) the terms “import” and “importation” have the meanings such terms have in the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); (6) the term “intermediary country” means a counter that exports raw or worked ivory that does not originate in that country; (7) the term “ivory producing country” means any African country within which is located any part of the range of a population of African elephants; (8) the term “ivory quota” means a quota submitted by an ivory producing country to the CITES Secretariat in accordance with the CITES Ivory Control System; (9) the term “personal effects” means articles which are not intended for sale and are part of a shipment of the household effects of a person who is moving his or her residence to or from the United States, or are included in personal accompanying baggage; (10) the term “raw ivory” means any African elephant tusk, and any piece thereof, the surface of which, polished or unpolished, is unaltered or minimally carved; (11) the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior; (12) the term “United States” means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States; and (13) the term “worked ivory” means any African elephant tusk, and any piece thereof, which is not raw ivory.

2. 2002

   Pub. L. 107–111 § 6(a)(4) · 115 Stat. 2095

   Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 4244(4)

   Pub. L. 107–111 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 “the African Elephant Conservation Fund established by section 4212 of this title”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Par. (4). Pub. L. 107–111 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 “the African Elephant Conservation Fund established by section 4212 of this title”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (4) Section 2305(4) (16 U.S.C. 4244(4)) is amended by striking “the African Elephant Conservation Fund established by section 2102” and inserting “the account established by division A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105–277 under the heading ‘multinational species conservation fund’”.

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