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16 U.S.C. § 785 — Enforcement of law prohibiting taking of sponges of specified sizes; employment of Coast Guard vessels and Customs Service employees

submitted 112 years ago by ch. 253 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 80 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary of Commerce must enforce this chapter and may authorize designated officers to arrest people and seize vessels and sponges. At the Secretary’s request, the Treasury Secretary may use Coast Guard vessels or Customs Service employees.

The Secretary of Commerce must enforce this chapter. The Secretary may authorize designated Commerce officers and employees, or officers and employees detailed from other departments, to make arrests and seize vessels and sponges. At the Secretary’s request, the Secretary of the Treasury may use Coast Guard vessels or Customs Service employees for that purpose.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Secretary of Commerce shall enforce the provisions of this chapter, and he is authorized to empower such officers and employees of the Department of Commerce as he may designate, or such officers and employees of other departments as may be detailed for the purpose, to make arrests and seize vessels and sponges, and upon his request the Secretary of the Treasury may employ the vessels of the Coast Guard or the employees of the Customs Service to that end.

Source credit: (Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 5, 38 Stat. 692; Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, § 1, 38 Stat. 800; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1431; Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, §§ 1, 20, 63 Stat. 495, 561; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1914Enacted · Act of Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253 · 38 Stat. 692
  • 1915Amended · Act of Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20 · 38 Stat. 800
  • 1949Amended · Act of Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393 · 63 Stat. 495, 561

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 253 on 1914-08-15.

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