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‘‘(B) induce any official or person to do or 
omit to do any act in violation of the lawful 
duty of such official or person that affects any 
secure or restricted area or seaport; or 
‘‘(2) directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, 
seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or ac-
cept anything of value personally or for any other 
person or entity in return for— 
‘‘(A) being influenced in the performance 
of any official act affecting any secure or re-
stricted area or seaport; and 
‘‘(B) knowing that such influence will be 
used to commit, or plan to commit, inter-
national or domestic terrorism, 
shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘secure 
or restricted area’ means an area of a vessel or facility 
designated as secure in an approved security plan, as re-
quired under section 70103 of title 46, and the rules and 
regulations promulgated under that section. 
‘‘CHAPTER 35—REGULATORY CRIMES 
‘‘Subchapter 
‘‘A. Animals, birds, fish, and plants 
‘‘B. Gambling 
‘‘C. Protection of trade secrets 
‘‘D. Trafficking in contraband cigarettes 
‘‘E. Child support 
‘‘F. Obscenity 
‘‘G. Money laundering 
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‘‘SUBCHAPTER A—ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND 
PLANTS 
‘‘1371. Hunting, fishing, trapping; disturbance or injury on wildlife refuges. 
‘‘1372. Importation or shipment of injurious mammals, birds, fish (including 
mollusks and crustacea), amphibia, and reptiles; permits, speci-
mens for museums; regulations. 
‘‘1373. Force, violence, and threats involving animal enterprises. 
‘‘1374. Use of aircraft or motor vehicles to hunt certain wild horses or burros; 
pollution of watering holes. 
‘‘1375. Animal crush videos. 
‘‘1376. Enforcement of animal fighting prohibitions. 
‘‘§ 1371. Hunting, fishing, trapping; disturbance or in-
jury on wildlife refuges 
‘‘Whoever, except in compliance with rules and regu-
lations promulgated by authority of law, hunts, traps, cap-
tures, knowingly disturbs or kills any bird, fish, or wild 
animal of any kind whatever, or takes or destroys the eggs 
or nest of any such bird or fish, on any lands or waters 
which are set apart or reserved as sanctuaries, refuges or 
breeding grounds for such birds, fish, or animals under 
any law of the United States or knowingly injures, mo-
lests, or destroys any property of the United States on 
any such lands or waters, shall be imprisoned not more 
than six months. 
‘‘§ 1372. Importation or shipment of injurious mam-
mals, birds, fish (including mollusks and 
crustacea), amphibia, and reptiles; per-
mits, specimens for museums; regulations 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—The importation into the United 
States, any territory of the United States, the District of 
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Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any pos-
session of the United States, or any shipment between the 
continental United States, the District of Columbia, Ha-
waii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession 
of the United States, of the mongoose of the species 
Herpestes auropunctatus; of the species of so-called ‘flying 
foxes’ or fruit bats of the genus Pteropus; of the zebra 
mussel of the species Dreissena polymorpha; of the big-
head carp of the species Hypophthalmichthys nobilis; and 
such other species of wild mammals, wild birds, fish (in-
cluding mollusks and crustacea), amphibians, reptiles, 
brown tree snakes, or the offspring or eggs of any of the 
foregoing which the Secretary of the Interior may pre-
scribe by regulation to be injurious to human beings, to 
the interests of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, or to 
wildlife or the wildlife resources of the United States, is 
hereby prohibited. All such prohibited mammals, birds, 
fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibians, and 
reptiles, and the eggs or offspring therefrom, shall be 
promptly exported or destroyed at the expense of the im-
porter or consignee. Nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to repeal or modify any provision of the Public 
Health Service Act or Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act. Also, this section does not authorize any action with 
respect to the importation of any plant pest as defined 
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in the Plant Protection Act, insofar as such importation 
is subject to regulation under that Act. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—As used in subsection (a), the 
term ‘wild’ relates to any creatures that, whether or not 
raised in captivity, normally are found in a wild state; and 
the terms ‘wildlife’ and ‘wildlife resources’ include those 
resources that comprise wild mammals, wild birds, fish 
(including mollusks and crustacea), and all other classes 
of wild creatures whatsoever, and all types of aquatic and 
land vegetation upon which such wildlife resources are de-
pendent. 
‘‘(c) EXCEPTIONS.—The Secretary of the Interior, if 
the Secretary finds that there has been a proper showing 
of responsibility and continued protection of the public in-
terest and health, shall permit the importation for zoolog-
ical, educational, medical, and scientific purposes of any 
mammal, bird, fish, (including mollusks and crustacea), 
amphibian, or reptile, or the offspring or eggs thereof, 
where such importation would otherwise be prohibited 
under this subchapter. This subchapter does not restrict 
importations by Federal agencies for their own use. 
‘‘(d) EXCLUSION.—Nothing in this section restricts 
the importation of dead natural-history specimens for mu-
seums or for scientific collections, or the importation of 
domesticated canaries, parrots (including all other species 
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of psittacine birds), or such other cage birds as the Sec-
retary of the Interior may designate. 
‘‘(e) ENFORCEMENT.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
and the Secretary of the Interior shall enforce this sub-
section, including any regulations issued hereunder, and, 
if requested by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary 
of the Treasury may require the furnishing of an appro-
priate bond when desirable to insure compliance with such 
provisions. 
‘‘(f) OFFENSE.—Whoever violates this section, or any 
regulation issued pursuant thereto, shall be imprisoned 
not more than six months. 
‘‘§ 1373. Force, violence, and threats involving animal 
enterprises 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever travels in interstate or for-
eign commerce, or uses or causes to be used the mail or 
any facility of interstate or foreign commerce— 
‘‘(1) for the purpose of damaging or interfering 
with the operations of an animal enterprise; and 
‘‘(2) in connection with such purpose— 
‘‘(A) intentionally damages or causes the 
loss of any real or personal property (including 
animals or records) used by an animal enter-
prise, or any real or personal property of a per-
son or entity having a connection to, relation-
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