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[CITE: 16USC710]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY
 
Sec. 710. Partial invalidity; short title

    If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this subchapter, 
which shall be known by the short title of the ``Migratory Bird Treaty 
Act'', shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent 
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or 
invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation 
to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in 
the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.

(July 3, 1918, ch. 128, Secs. 1, 10, 40 Stat. 755, 757.)

                          Codification

    The provisions of this section relating to short title are from 
section 1 of act July 3, 1918, and the provisions relating to 
severability are from section 10 of that act.


                      Short Title of 1998 Amendment

    Pub. L. 105-312, title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2956, 
provided that: ``This title [amending sections 704 and 707 of this title 
and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 704 of this 
title] may be cited as the `Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act of 1998'.''
