§ 668c. 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. 1940

   Pub. L. 76–278 § 4 · 54 Stat. 250

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 668c

   June 8, 1940, ch. 278, § 4, 54 Stat. 251

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 8, 1940, ch. 278, § 4, 54 Stat. 251

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That as used in this Act “whoever” includes also associations, Terms defined. partnerships, and corporations; “take” includes also pursue, shoot, shoot at, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect., or otherwise willfully molest or disturb; “transport” includes also ship, convey, carry, or transport by any means whatever, and deliver or receive or cause to be delivered or received for such shipment, conveyance, carriage, or transportation.

2. 1972

   Pub. L. 92–535 § 4 · 86 Stat. 1064

   Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 668c

   Pub. L. 92–535 substituted “poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest” for “wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, or otherwise willfully molest”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 92–535 substituted “poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest” for “wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, or otherwise willfully molest”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. Section 4 of such Act of June 8, 1940 (16 U.S.C. 668c), is 54 Stat. 251. amended by inserting “poison” immediately after “shoot at,” and by striking out “otherwise willfully”.

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