439 



§3112. Search warrants for seizure of animals, birds 

 or eggs. 



Any employee authorized by the Secretary of the 

 Interior to enforce sections 42, 43, and 44 of this 

 title, and any oflScer of the customs, shall have au- 

 thority to execute any warrant to search for and 

 seize any wUdlife, product, property, or item used or 

 possessed in connection with a violation of section 

 42 or 44, or in connection with a knowing and will- 

 ful violation of section 43, and any such wildlife, 

 product, property, or item so seized shall be held by 

 him or by the United States marshal pending disposi- 

 tion thereof by the court. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 

 62 Stat. 820; Dec. 5, 1969, Pub. L. 91-135, 5 7(c), 83 

 Stat. 281.) 



Legislative History 



Reviser's Note. — Based on title 18, U. S. C 1940 ed., 

 § 393a (June 15, 1935, ch. 261. title II. { 202, 49 Stat. 381; 

 Reorg. Plan No. II. § 4 (f ). 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433). 



Section 393a of title 18. U. S. C. 1940 ed.. was Incorpo- 

 rated In this section and sections 43. 44. and 3054 of this 

 title. 



Only such changes of phraseology were made as were 

 necessary to make this section conform with Rule 41 of 

 the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. 



Amendments 

 1969 — Pub. L. 91-135 provided for enforcement of sec- 

 tion 42 of this title and substituted "property used or 

 possessed In connection with a violation of section 42 or 

 44. or in connection with a knowing and willful violation 

 of section 43. " for "property used or possessed in violation 

 of said sections". 



15. Importation of Wild Mammals and Birds 

 19 US.C. 1527 



§ 1527. Importation of wild mammals and birds in rio- 

 lation of foreign law. 



(a) Importation prohibited. 



If the laws or regulations of any country, det>end- 

 ency, province, or other subdivision of government 

 restrict the taking, killing, possession, or exportation, 

 to the United States, of any wild mammal or bird, 

 alive or dead, or restrict the exportation to the United 

 States of any part or product of any wild msonmal 

 or bird, whether raw or manufactured, no such 

 mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, shall, 

 after the expiration of ninety days after June 17, 

 1930, be lAiported into the United States from such 

 country, dependency, province, or other subdivision 

 of government, directly or indirectly, unless accom- 

 panied by a certification of the United States consul, 

 for the consular district in which is located the port 

 or place from which such mammal or bird, or part 

 or product thereof, was exported from such country, 

 dependency, province, or other subdivision of govern- 

 ment, that such mammal or bird, or part or product 

 thereof, has not been acquired or exported in viola- 

 tion of the laws or regulations of such country, de- 

 pendency, province, or other subdivision of govern- 

 ment. 



(b) Forfeiture. 



Any mammal or bird, alive or dead, or any part or 

 product thereof, whether raw or manufactured, im- 

 ported Into the United States in violation of the pro- 

 visions of the preceding subdivision shall be subject 

 to seizure and forfeiture under the customs laws. 

 Any such article so forfeited may, in the discretion 



of the Secretary of the Treasury and under such reg- 

 ulations as he may prescribe, be placed with the 

 departments or bureaus of the PederaTor State Gov- 

 ernments, or with societies or museums, for exhibi- 

 tion or scientific or educational purposes, or de- 

 stroyed, or (except in the case of heads or horns of 

 wild mammals) sold in the manner provided by law. 

 (c) Section not to apply in certain cases. 



The provisions of this section shall not apply in the 

 case of — 



(1) Prohibited importations. 



Articles the importation of which is prohibited 

 under the provisions of this chapter, or of section 

 391 of Title 18, or of any other law; 



(2) Scientific or educational purposes. 



Wild mammals or birds, alive or dead, or parts 

 or products thereof, whether raw or manufac- 

 tured, imported for scientific or educational 

 purjjoses; 



(3) Certain migratory game birds. 



Migratory game birds (for which an open season 

 is provided by the laws of the United States and 

 any foreign country which is a ijarty to a treaty 

 with the United States, in effect on the date of 

 importation, relating to the protection of such 

 migratory game birds) brought into the United 

 States by bona fide sportsnieri returning from 

 hunting trips in such country, if at the time of 

 importation the possession of such birds is not 

 prohibited by the laws of such country or of the 

 United States. 

 (June 17, 1930. ch. 497, title IV. § 527. 46 Stat. 741.) 



Sec. 



4201. 



16. Intergovernmental Coordination — Grants 

 42 UJS.C. 4201^244 



SUBCHAPTER I.— GENERAL PROVISIONS 

 Definitions. 



SUBCHAPTER 11. — GRANTS-IN-AID TO THE ""STATES; 

 IMPROVED ADMINISTRATION 



4211. Full Information on funds received. 



