Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 5 — Protection of Fur Seals and Other Fur-Bearing Animals
§ 659. Sea lions; acts prohibiting killing repealed
Statutory text
All Acts and parts of Acts making it unlawful to kill sea lions, as game animals or otherwise, in the waters of the Territory of Alaska are repealed.
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.
Pub. L. 73–556 · 48 Stat. 976
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 659
June 16, 1934, ch. 556, 48 Stat. 976
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 16, 1934, ch. 556, 48 Stat. 976Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972
Pub. L. 92–522 title I § 113(b) · 86 Stat. 1027
Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 659
Pub. L. 92–522 struck out proviso prohibiting killing of sea lions in waters of Alaska except under rules and regulations prescribed by Secretary of the Interior
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 92–522 struck out proviso prohibiting killing of sea lions in waters of Alaska except under rules and regulations prescribed by Secretary of the Interior.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) The proviso to the Act entitled “An Act to repeal certain laws providing for the protection of sea lions in Alaska water”, approved 48 Stat. 976. June 16, 1934 (16 U.S.C. 659), is repealed.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1972—Pub. L. 92–522 struck out proviso prohibiting killing of sea lions in waters of Alaska except under rules and regulations prescribed by Secretary of the Interior.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, transferred Bureau of Fisheries in Department of Commerce, and its functions and functions of Secretary of Commerce relating to protection of fur seals and other fur-bearing animals and supervision of Pribilof Islands and care of natives thereof, to Department of the Interior.
Admission of Alaska as State
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished , on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, , 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, , 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Credits
1934–1972 · 3 acts
- 1934June 16, 1934, ch. 556, 48 Stat. 976
- 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433
- 1972Pub. L. 92–522, title I, § 113(b), , 86 Stat. 1042.
Show as published
(June 16, 1934, ch. 556, 48 Stat. 976; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 92–522, title I, § 113(b), , 86 Stat. 1042.)