§ 916c. — Unlawful acts.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC916c]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 14--REGULATION OF WHALING
SUBCHAPTER II--WHALING CONVENTION ACT
Sec. 916c. Unlawful acts
(a) Whaling, transporting, or selling violations; records; reports
It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of
the United States (1) to engage in whaling in violation of the
convention or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this
subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce; (2) to
ship, transport, purchase, sell, offer for sale, import, export, or have
in possession any whale or whale products taken or processed in
violation of the convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, or
of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce;
(3) to fail to make, keep, submit, or furnish any record or report
required of him by the convention, or by any regulation of the
Commission, or by any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce, or to
refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce the convention, the
regulations of the Commission, this subchapter, and the regulations of
the Secretary of Commerce, to inspect such record or report at any
reasonable time.
(b) Acts of commission or omission
It shall be unlawful for any person or vessel subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States to do any act prohibited or to fail to
do any act required by the convention, or by this subchapter, or by any
regulation adopted by the Commission, or by any regulation of the
Secretary of Commerce.
(Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, Sec. 5, 64 Stat. 422; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4,
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the
Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section
916 of this title.
Emergency Assistance for Subsistence Whale Hunters
Pub. L. 107-372, title IV, Sec. 403, Dec. 19, 2002, 116 Stat. 3102,
provided that: ``Notwithstanding any provision of law, the use of a
vessel to tow a whale taken in a traditional subsistence whale hunt
permitted by Federal law and conducted in waters off the coast of Alaska
is authorized, if such towing is performed upon a request for emergency
assistance made by a subsistence whale hunting organization formally
recognized by an agency of the United States Government, or made by a
member of such an organization, to prevent the loss of a whale.''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 916f of this title.
