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                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                CHAPTER 62--AFRICAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION
 
                      SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS
 
Sec. 4244. Definitions

    In this chapter--
        (1) the term ``African elephant'' means any animal of the 
    species loxodonta africana;
        (2) the term ``CITES'' means the Convention on the International 
    Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora;
        (3) the term ``CITES Ivory Control System'' means the ivory 
    quota and marking system established by CITES to curtail illegal 
    trade in African elephant ivory;
        (4) the term ``Fund'' means the African Elephant Conservation 
    Fund established by section 4212 of this title;
        (5) the terms ``import'' and ``importation'' have the meanings 
    such terms have in the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
    1531 et seq.);
        (6) the term ``intermediary country'' means a country that 
    exports raw or worked ivory that does not originate in that country;
        (7) the term ``ivory producing country'' means any African 
    country within which is located any part of the range of a 
    population of African elephants;
        (8) the term ``ivory quota'' means a quota submitted by an ivory 
    producing country to the CITES Secretariat in accordance with the 
    CITES Ivory Control System;
        (9) the term ``personal effects'' means articles which are not 
    intended for sale and are part of a shipment of the household 
    effects of a person who is moving his or her residence to or from 
    the United States, or are included in personal accompanying baggage;
        (10) the term ``raw ivory'' means any African elephant tusk, and 
    any piece thereof, the surface of which, polished or unpolished, is 
    unaltered or minimally carved;
        (11) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior;
        (12) the term ``United States'' means the fifty States, the 
    District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
    Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and 
    possessions of the United States; and
        (13) the term ``worked ivory'' means any African elephant tusk, 
    and any piece thereof, which is not raw ivory.

(Pub. L. 100-478, title II, Sec. 2305, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2322.)

                       References in Text

    The Endangered Species Act of 1973, referred to in par. (5), is Pub. 
L. 93-205, Dec. 28, 1973, 87 Stat. 884, as amended, which is classified 
generally to chapter 35 (Sec. 1531 et seq.) of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 1531 of this title and Tables.
