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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 690a. Maintenance of lands acquired as refuge and breeding place for migratory birds

Statutory text

Such lands, when acquired in accordance with the provisions of sections 690 to 690i of this title, together with such lands of the United States as may be designated for the purpose by proclamations or Executive orders of the President, shall constitute the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and shall be maintained as a refuge and breeding place for migratory birds included in the terms of the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded .

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. Pub. L. 70–413 § 2 · 45 Stat. 448

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 690a

    (Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 2, 45 Stat. 448.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 2, 45 Stat. 448.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That such lands, when acquired in accordance with the provisions of this Act, together with such lands of the United States as may be designated for the purpose by proclamations or Executive orders of the President, shall constitute the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and shall be maintained as a refuge and breeding place for migratory birds included in the terms of the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 690i, included within the reference to sections 690 to 690i, was omitted from the Code.

Credits

(Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 2, 45 Stat. 448.)

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