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ENFOECEMENT 



Sec. 206. (a) Enforcement of the provisions of tliis title is the joint respon- 

 sibility of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Interior, Commerce, and Trans- 

 portation. In addition, the Secretary of Interior may designate oflBcers and em- 

 ployees of the States of the United States to enforce the provisions of this Act, 

 which relates to persons or vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United 

 States. When so designated, such officers and employees are authorized to func- 

 tion as Federal law enforcement agents for these purposes, but they shall not be 

 held and considered as employees of th United Stats for the purposes of any laws 

 adminlstred by the Civil Service Commission. 



(b) The judges of the United States district courts and the United States 

 commissioners may, within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or 

 affirmation showing probable cause, issue such warrants or other process, in- 

 cluding warrants or other process issued in admiralty proceedings in Federal 

 district courts, as may be required for enforcement of this title and any regula- 

 tions issued thereunder. 



(c) Any person authorized to carry out enforcement activities hereunder shall 

 have the power to execute any warrant or process issued by any officr or court 

 of comptent juisdiction for the enforcement of this title. 



(d) Such person so authorized shall have the power — 



(1) with or without a warrant or other process, to arrest any person com- 

 mitting in his presence or view a violation of this title or the regulations 

 issued thereunder ; 



(2) with a warrant or other process or without a warrant, if he has rea- 

 sonable cause to believe that a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United 

 States or any person on board is in violation of any provision of this title 

 or the regulations issued thereunder, to search such vessel and to arrest 

 such person. 



(e) Such person so authorized may seize any vessel subject to the jurisdic- 

 tion of the United States, together vdth its tackle, apparel, furniture, appurten- 

 ances, cargo, and stores, used or employed contrary to the provisions of this title 

 or the regulations issued hereunder or which it reasonably appears has been used 

 or employed contrary to the provisions of this title or the regulations issued 

 hereunder. 



(f) Such persons so authorized may seize, whenever and wherever found, all 

 seals or i>arts thereof taken or retained in violation of this title or the regula- 

 tions issued thereunder and shall dispose of them in accordance with such 

 regulations. 



Seo. 207. The Secretaries of State, Treasury, Interior, Commerce and Trans^ 

 portation are authorized to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this 

 title. 



Sec. 208. Any person violating the provisions of this title or the regulations 

 issued thereunder shall on the tirst offense be fined not more than $5,000 or 

 imprisoned not more than one year, or both ; on conviction of second and sub- 

 sequent offenses, the violator shall be fined not more than $10,000 or jailed for 

 not less than one nor more than three years, or both. 



Title III — North Pacific Fur Seals 



TERMINATION OF NORTH PACIFIO FUR SBL&^L CONVENTION 



Sec. 301. It is the sense of the Congress that the North Pacific Fur Seal Con- 

 vention, signed on February 9, 1957, should not be continued after its current 

 termination date in 1975, and that the said convention should be permitted to 

 expire in 1976. 



Further, it is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should 

 immediately notify the other parties to the convention that the United States 

 does not intend to extend its life beyond 1976. 



Further, it is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should 

 immediately initiate negotiations with the parties to the convention and any 

 other interested states for the purpose of obtaining an international agreement 

 or agreements to ban aU killing of North Pacific fur seals whether at sea or on 

 land. 



