Source: http://ecfr.io/Title-50/se50.2.17_171
Timestamp: 2019-09-17 14:55:21
Document Index: 175080756

Matched Legal Cases: ['§17', 'art 17', '§17', 'art 17', '§17', 'art 17', '§17', '§17', '§17', '§17', 'art 17', '§17']

[50 CFR §17.71] Title 50 Part 17 → Subpart G → §17.71 : Code of Federal Regulations ';
Title 50 Part 17 → Subpart G → §17.71
Title 50 → Chapter I → Subchapter B → Part 17 → Subpart G → §17.71
Subpart G—Threatened Plants
§17.71 Prohibitions.
Link to an amendment published at 84 FR 44760, Aug. 27, 2019.
(a) Except as provided in subpart A of this part, or in a permit issued under this subpart, all of the provisions in §17.61 shall apply to threatened plants, with the following exception. Seeds of cultivated specimens of species treated as threatened shall be exempt from all the provisions of §17.61, provided that a statement that the seeds are of “cultivated origin” accompanies the seeds or their container during the course of any activity otherwise subject to these regulations.
(b) In addition to any provisions of this part 17, any employee or agent of the Service or of a State Conservation Agency which is operating a conservation program pursuant to the terms of a Cooperative Agreement with the Service in accordance with section 6(c) of the Act, who is designated by that agency for such purposes, may, when acting in the course of official duties, remove and reduce to possession from areas under Federal jurisdiction those threatened species of plants which are covered by an approved Cooperative Agreement to carry out conservation programs.
(c) Whenever a special rule in §§17.73 to 17.78 applies to a threatened species, none of the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section will apply. The special rule will contain all the applicable prohibitions and exceptions. If indicated by special rule, the exception for seeds in paragraph (a) of this section shall not apply to the threatened species.
[42 FR 32380, June 24, 1977, as amended at 50 FR 39691, Sept. 30, 1985]