§ 715k. Authorization of appropriations for purposes of subchapter; disposal; reservation protectors

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. 1929

   Migratory Bird Conservation Act

   Pub. L. 70–257 § 12 · 45 Stat. 1222

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 715k

   Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 12, 45 Stat. 1224

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 12, 45 Stat. 1224

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 12. Amounts authorized for all expenses. Ante, p. 1209. Post, p. 1634. For the acquisition, including the location, examination, and survey, of suitable areas of land, water, or land and water, for use as migratory bird reservations, and necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the administration, maintenance, and development of such areas and other preserves, reservations, or breeding grounds frequented by migratory game birds and under the administration of the Secretary of Agriculture, including the construction of dams, dikes, ditches, flumes, spillways, buildings, and other necessary improvements, and for the elimination of the loss of migratory birds from alkali poisoning, oil pollution of waters, or other causes, for cooperation with local authorities in wild life conservation, for investigations and publications relating to North American birds, for personal services, printing, engraving, and issuance of circulars, posters, and other necessary matter and for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated, in addition to Yearly allotments. all other amounts authorized by law to be appropriated, the following amounts for the fiscal years specified— $75,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930; $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931; $600,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932; $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933; $1,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter for a period of six years; and For fiscal year 1940, and thereafter. Amount for administration, etc., expenses yearly. $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for each fiscal year thereafter. Not more than 20 per centum of the amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1930, and for each fiscal year to and including the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, shall be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere incident to the administration and maintenance of acquired areas, printing, engraving, and issuance of circulars and posters. No part of any Payments only to reservation protectors. appropriation authorized by this section shall be used for payment of the salary, compensation, or expenses of any United States game protector, except reservation protectors for the administration, maintenance, and protection of such reservations and the birds thereon: Provided, That reservation protectors appointed under Proviso. Selection of citizens of the States for protectors. Authority of Secretary of Agriculture. the provisions of this Act shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the State in which they are to be employed. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to make such expenditures and to employ such means, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing objects.

2. 1966

   Pub. L. 89–669 § 7(a) · 80 Stat. 926

   1. Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 715k

      Pub. L. 89–669 substituted “grounds frequented by migratory birds” for “grounds frequented by migratory game birds”

   2. Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 715k

      Pub. L. 89–669 substituted “United States protector” for “United States game protector”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 89–669 substituted “grounds frequented by migratory birds” for “grounds frequented by migratory game birds”, and “United States protector” for “United States game protector”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Sections 4 and 12 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (45 Stat. 1222), as amended (16 U.S.C. 715c and 715k), are further amended by deleting the word “game” wherever it appears.

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