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[CITE: 16USC726]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
  CHAPTER 8--UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE
 
Sec. 726. Acts prohibited in refuge; commercial fishing

    No person shall, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by 
the Secretary of the Interior in respect of wild birds, game animals, 
fur-bearing animals, wild flowers, and aquatic plants, or in respect of 
fish and other aquatic-animal life--
    (a) Enter the refuge for any purpose; or
    (b) Disturb, injure, kill, or remove, or attempt to disturb, injure, 
kill, or remove any wild bird, game animal, fur-bearing animal, fish, or 
other aquatic-animal life, on the refuge; or
    (c) Remove from the refuge, or injure or destroy thereon any flower, 
plant, tree, or other natural growth, or the nest or egg of any wild 
bird; or
    (d) Injure or destroy any notice, sign board, fence, building, or 
other property of the United States thereon.
    Commercial fishing may, however, be conducted in the waters of this 
refuge under regulation by the Secretary of the Interior.

(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, Secs. 6, 7, 43 Stat. 651; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. 
II, Sec. 4(e), (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

                          Codification

    Section is a combination of sections 6 and 7 of act June 7, 1924, 
the last sentence only being from section 7.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other 
official in Department of the Interior under this chapter to Federal 
Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas 
Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, 
see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 725 of this title.
    Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of 
Commerce to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see 
Transfer of Functions note set out under section 723 of this title.
