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[USC02] 16 USC 704: Determination as to when and how migratory birds may be taken, killed, or possessed
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16 USC 704: Determination as to when and how migratory birds may be taken, killed, or possessed Text contains those laws in effect on February 23, 2020
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to-
(c) Federal Framework Closing Date for Hunting of Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots.-
(1) Regulations relating to framework closing date.-
(A) In general.-In promulgating regulations under subsection (a) relating to the Federal framework for the closing date up to which the States may select seasons for migratory bird hunting, except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall, with respect to the hunting season for ducks, mergansers, and coots-
(i) subject to subparagraph (B), adopt the recommendation of each respective flyway council (as defined in section 20.152 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations) for the Federal framework if the Secretary determines that the recommendation is consistent with science-based and sustainable harvest management; and
(ii) allow the States to establish the closing date for the hunting season in accordance with the Federal framework.
(B) Requirement.-The framework closing date promulgated by the Secretary under subparagraph (A) shall not be later than January 31 of each year.
(2) Special hunting days for youths, veterans, and active military personnel.-
(A) In general.-Notwithstanding the Federal framework closing date under paragraph (1) and subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), the Secretary shall allow States to select 2 days for youths and 2 days for veterans (as defined in section 101 of title 38) and members of the Armed Forces on active duty, including members of the National Guard and Reserves on active duty (other than for training), to hunt eligible ducks, geese, swans, mergansers, coots, moorhens, and gallinules, if the Secretary determines that the addition of those days is consistent with science-based and sustainable harvest management. Such days shall be treated as separate from, and in addition to, the annual Federal framework hunting season lengths.
(B) Requirements.-In selecting days under subparagraph (A), a State shall ensure that-
(i) the days selected-
(I) may only include the hunting of duck, geese, swan, merganser, coot, moorhen, and gallinule species that are eligible for hunting under the applicable annual Federal framework;
(II) are not more than 14 days before or after the Federal framework hunting season for ducks, mergansers, and coots; and
(III) are otherwise consistent with the Federal framework; and
(ii) the total number of days in a hunting season for any migratory bird species, including any days selected under subparagraph (A), is not more than 107 days.
(C) Limitation.-A State may combine the 2 days allowed for youths with the 2 days allowed for veterans and members of the Armed Forces on active duty under subparagraph (A), but in no circumstance may a State have more than a total of 4 additional days added to its regular hunting season for any purpose.
(3) Regulations.-The Secretary shall promulgate regulations in accordance with this subsection for the Federal framework for migratory bird hunting for the 2019–2020 hunting season and each hunting season thereafter.
(July 3, 1918, ch. 128, §3, 40 Stat. 755 ; June 20, 1936, ch. 634, §2, 49 Stat. 1556 ; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, §4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 105–312, title I, §102, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2956 ; Pub. L. 116–9, title IV, §4301, Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat. 764 .)
2019-Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–9 added subsec. (c).
1998-Pub. L. 105–312 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
1936-Act June 20, 1936, substituted "conventions" for "convention" in two places.
Act June 20, 1936, ch. 634, §2, 49 Stat. 1556 , provided in part that the amendment by section 2 is effective as of the day aforesaid (June 30, 1937). See note under section 703 of this title.
Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, §12601, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 5003 , provided that:
"(1) Normal agricultural operation.-The term 'normal agricultural operation' has the meaning given the term in section 20.11 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 20, 2018]).
"(2) Post-disaster flooding.-The term 'post-disaster flooding' means the destruction of a crop through flooding in accordance with practices required by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation for agricultural producers to obtain crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) on land on which a crop was not harvestable due to a natural disaster (including any hurricane, storm, tornado, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, drought, fire, snowstorm, or other catastrophe that is declared a major disaster by the President in accordance with section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170)) in the crop year-
"(3) Rice ratooning.-The term 'rice ratooning' means the agricultural practice of harvesting rice by cutting the majority of the aboveground portion of the rice plant but leaving the roots and growing shoot apices intact to allow the plant to recover and produce a second crop yield.
"(b) Regulations to Exclude Rice Ratooning and Post-disaster Flooding.-Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall revise part 20 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, to clarify that rice ratooning and post-disaster flooding, when carried out as part of a normal agricultural operation, do not constitute baiting.
"(c) Reports.-Not less frequently than once each year-
Pub. L. 105–312, title I, §104, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2956 , provided that: "Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 1998], the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Resources [now Committee on Natural Resources] of the House of Representatives a report analyzing the effect of the amendments made by section 2 [probably should be section 102, which amended this section], and the general practice of baiting, on migratory bird conservation and law enforcement efforts under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 701 et seq.) [16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.]."