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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 15A — Great Lakes Fisheries

§ 931. Definitions

Statutory text

As used in this chapter, the term—

(a)

“Convention” means the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries between the United States of America and Canada signed at Washington, ;

(b)

“Commission” means the Great Lakes Fishery Commission provided for by article II of the convention;

(c)

“United States Section” means the United States Commissioners on the Commission;

(d)

“Great Lakes State” means any of the following States: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin;

(e)

“Great Lakes” means any of the following bodies of water: Lake Ontario (including the Saint Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the forty-fifth parallel of latitude), Lake Erie, Lake Huron (including Lake Saint Clair), Lake Michigan, or Lake Superior.

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. (June 4, 1956, ch. 358, § 2, 70 Stat. 242.) · 70 Stat. 242

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 931

    (June 4, 1956, ch. 358, § 2, 70 Stat. 242.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 4, 1956, ch. 358, § 2, 70 Stat. 242.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title

Act June 4, 1956, ch. 358, § 1, 70 Stat. 242, provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956’.”

Separability

Act June 4, 1956, ch. 358, § 14, 70 Stat. 244, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [this chapter] or the application of such provision to any circumstances or persons shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other circumstances or persons shall not be affected thereby”.

Credits

(June 4, 1956, ch. 358, § 2, 70 Stat. 242.)

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