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[CITE: 16USC785]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
  CHAPTER 11--REGULATION OF LANDING, CURING, AND SALE OF SPONGES TAKEN 
               FROM GULF OF MEXICO AND STRAITS OF FLORIDA
 
Sec. 785. Enforcement of law prohibiting taking of sponges of 
        specified sizes; employment of Coast Guard vessels and Customs 
        Service employees
        
    The Secretary of Commerce shall enforce the provisions of this 
chapter, and he is authorized to empower such officers and employees of 
the Department of Commerce as he may designate, or such officers and 
employees of other departments as may be detailed for the purpose, to 
make arrests and seize vessels and sponges, and upon his request the 
Secretary of the Treasury may employ the vessels of the Coast Guard or 
the employees of the Customs Service to that end.

(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, Sec. 5, 38 Stat. 692; Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, 
Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 800; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 4(e), eff. July 1, 
1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1431; Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, Secs. 1, 20, 63 
Stat. 495, 561; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 
15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Secretary of Commerce'' and ``Department of Commerce'' substituted 
in text for ``Secretary of the Interior'' and ``Department of the 
Interior'' in view of: creation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration in Department of Commerce and Office of Administrator of 
such Administration; abolition of Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in 
Department of the Interior and Office of Director of such Bureau; 
transfers of functions, including functions formerly vested by law in 
Secretary of the Interior or Department of the Interior which were 
administered through Bureau of Commercial Fisheries or were primarily 
related to such Bureau, exclusive of certain enumerated functions with 
respect to Great Lakes fishery research, Missouri River Reservoir 
research, Gulf Breeze Biological Laboratory, and Trans-Alaska pipeline 
investigations; and transfer of marine sport fish program of Bureau of 
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 
1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees.
    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5.
    ``Coast Guard'' substituted in text for ``Revenue Cutter Service'' 
on authority of act Jan. 28, 1915, which combined Revenue Cutter Service 
and Life-Saving Service to form Coast Guard. That act was repealed by 
section 20 of act Aug. 4, 1949, section 1 of which reestablished Coast 
Guard by enacting Title 14, Coast Guard.
    Coast Guard transferred to Department of Transportation and all 
functions, powers, and duties, relating to Coast Guard, of Secretary of 
the Treasury and of other offices and officers of Department of the 
Treasury transferred to Secretary of Transportation by section 6(b)(1) 
of Pub. L. 89-670, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 938. See section 108 of Title 
49, Transportation.
    Functions of all officers of Department of the Treasury, and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, transferred, 
with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested 
in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his 
functions, by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. 
Plan No. 26 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 
Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. Customs Service, 
referred to in this section, is a service under Department of the 
Treasury, and Coast Guard, also referred to in this section, was 
generally a service under such Department, but such Plan excepted, from 
transfer, functions of Coast Guard, and of Commandant thereof, when 
Coast Guard was operating as a part of the Navy under sections 1 and 3 
of Title 14, Coast Guard.
    Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, Sec. 3, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 
2108, 54 Stat. 1232, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees, consolidated Bureau of Fisheries and Bureau 
of Biological Survey with their respective functions into one agency in 
Department of the Interior to be known as Fish and Wildlife Service, and 
provided that functions of the consolidated agency shall be administered 
under direction and supervision of Secretary of the Interior.
    Reorg. Plan No. II of 1930, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
transferred Bureau of Fisheries in Department of Commerce and its 
functions to Department of the Interior, to be administered under 
direction and supervision of Secretary of the Interior.
