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[CITE: 16USC1156]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 24--CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF NORTH PACIFIC FUR SEALS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--FUR SEAL MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 1156. Enforcement provisions


(a) Search of vessels; certificate of identification; exhibition to 
        master

    Any person authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter who 
has reasonable cause to believe that any vessel outfitted for the 
harvesting of living marine resources and subject to the jurisdiction of 
any of the parties to the Convention is violating the provisions of 
article III of the Convention may, except within the areas in which 
another State exercises fisheries jurisdiction, board and search such 
vessel. Such person shall carry a special certificate of identification 
issued by the Secretary or Secretary of the department in which the 
Coast Guard is operating which shall be in English, Japanese, and 
Russian and which shall be exhibited to the master of the vessel upon 
request.

(b) Seizure; arrest; notice; delivery of vessel or person to authorized 
        officials; custody

    If, after boarding and searching such vessel, such person continues 
to have reasonable cause to believe that such vessel, or any person 
onboard, is violating said article, he may seize such vessel or arrest 
such person, or both. The Secretary of State shall, as soon as 
practicable, notify the party having jurisdiction over the vessel or 
person of such seizure or arrest.
    The Secretary or the Secretary of the department in which the Coast 
Guard is operating, upon request of the Secretary of State, shall 
deliver the seized vessel or arrested person, or both, as promptly as 
practicable to the authorized officials of said party: Provided, That 
whenever said party cannot immediately accept such delivery, the 
Secretary or the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is 
operating may, upon the request of the Secretary of State, keep the 
vessel or person in custody within the United States.

(c) Testimony of enforcement agents

    At the request of said party, the Secretary or the Secretary of the 
department in which the Coast Guard is operating, shall direct the 
person authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter to attend 
the trial as a witness in any case arising under said article or give 
testimony by deposition, and shall produce such records and files or 
copies thereof as may be necessary to establish the offense.

(Pub. L. 89-702, title I, Sec. 106, Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1092; Pub. L. 
98-129, Sec. 2, Oct. 14, 1983, 97 Stat. 837.)


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 98-129 amended section generally, substituting 
provisions setting out enforcement steps, which were previously 
contained in section 1155 of this title, for provisions establishing the 
North Pacific Fur Seal Commission. See section 1157 of this title.
