§ 659. — Sea lions; acts prohibiting killing repealed.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC659]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 5--PROTECTION OF FUR SEALS AND OTHER FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
Sec. 659. Sea lions; acts prohibiting killing repealed
All Acts and parts of Acts making it unlawful to kill sea lions, as
game animals or otherwise, in the waters of the Territory of Alaska are
repealed.
(June 16, 1934, ch. 556, 48 Stat. 976; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II,
Sec. 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 92-
522, title I, Sec. 113(b), Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1042.)
Amendments
1972--Pub. L. 92-522 struck out proviso prohibiting killing of sea
lions in waters of Alaska except under rules and regulations prescribed
by Secretary of the Interior.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5,
transferred Bureau of Fisheries in Department of Commerce, and its
functions and functions of Secretary of Commerce relating to protection
of fur seals and other fur-bearing animals and supervision of Pribilof
Islands and care of natives thereof, to Department of the Interior.
Admission of Alaska as State
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
