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[CITE: 16USC708]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY
 
Sec. 708. State or Territorial laws or regulations

    Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prevent the several 
States and Territories from making or enforcing laws or regulations not 
inconsistent with the provisions of said conventions or of this 
subchapter, or from making or enforcing laws or regulations which shall 
give further protection to migratory birds, their nests, and eggs, if 
such laws or regulations do not extend the open seasons for such birds 
beyond the dates approved by the President in accordance with section 
704 of this title.

(July 3, 1918, ch. 128, Sec. 7, 40 Stat. 756; June 20, 1936, ch. 634, 
Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 1556.)


                               Amendments

    1936--Act June 20, 1936, substituted ``conventions'' for 
``convention''.


                    Effective Date of 1936 Amendment

    Section effective June 30, 1937, see section 1 of act June 20, 1936, 
set out as a note under section 703 of this title.
