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[CITE: 16USC5303]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
              CHAPTER 73--RHINOCEROS AND TIGER CONSERVATION
 
Sec. 5303. Definitions

    In this chapter--
        (1) ``CITES'' means the Convention on International Trade in 
    Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed on March 3, 1973, 
    and its appendices;
        (2) ``conservation'' means the use of all methods and procedures 
    necessary to bring rhinoceros and tigers to the point at which there 
    are sufficient populations to ensure that those species do not 
    become extinct, including all activities associated with scientific 
    resource management, such as research, census, law enforcement, 
    habitat protection, acquisition, and management, propagation, live 
    trapping, and transportation;
        (3) ``Fund'' means the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund 
    established under section 5305(a) of this title;
        (4) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior;
        (5) ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of the Agency for 
    International Development; and
        (6) ``person'' means--
            (A) an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, 
        association, or other private entity;
            (B) an officer, employee, agent, department, or 
        instrumentality of--
                (i) the Federal Government;
                (ii) any State, municipality, or political subdivision 
            of a State; or
                (iii) any foreign government;

            (C) a State, municipality, or political subdivision of a 
        State; or
            (D) any other entity subject to the jurisdiction of the 
        United States.

(Pub. L. 103-391, Sec. 4, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4095; Pub. L. 105-
312, title IV, Sec. 404, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2960.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Par. (6). Pub. L. 105-312 added par. (6).
